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Colonel John Scott of Long Island, 1634 (? ) - 1696 by Abbott, Wilbur C - 1918

by Abbott, Wilbur C

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Colonel John Scott of Long Island, 1634 (? ) - 1696 by Abbott, Wilbur C - 1918

Colonel John Scott of Long Island, 1634 (? ) - 1696

by Abbott, Wilbur C

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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled and worn, foxing to endpapers . and preliminaries.. 1918. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Blue paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine. Printed paper label on front boards. (4), 1-94 pp, notes. Originally delivered as a speech for the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York on November 8, 1917 and published privately by the Society in August 1918. An essay on the life of Colonel John Scott, a rapscallion who seems to have started in life as a bound-boy emigrated from England, who was clapped into jail after conducting raids on properties in Dutch-controlled New Amsterdam. After jail, he worked as a blacksmith and kept cowes in the present-day town of Southampton, at the tip of Long Island. The author describes his rascally adventures in finagling possession of various lands on Long Island under dubious means, traveling back and forth to the royal court in England. The busy Scott was later also was the principal accuser of treason and Popery against British Secretary to the Admiralty, Samuel Pepys. .
  • Bookseller Old Saratoga Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled and worn, foxing to endpapers and preliminaries.
  • Edition First Trade Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Place of Publication New Haven, CT
  • Date Published 1918
  • Keywords Long Island History, Colonel John Scott, Colonial New York

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Colonel John Scott of Long Island 1634(?)-1696

by Abbott, Wilbur C

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New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1918. First. Cloth/paper. Very Good/None Issued. First edition thus. Half cloth over paper covered boards with paper title label; 94 pps. One of an unspecified limited number of printings of an essay prepared for the Society of Colonial Wars in New York and delivede in November 1917. "Colonel" John Scott was one of the most picturesque and far-wandering scoundrels of the late 17th century; he was a spy, informer, murderer, Royal Geographer and one of the most colorful characters in colonial American lore. Very good with general rubbing. No jacket issued.
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Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1918. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Good condition. Private club library bookplate on inside front board, no other library markings or labels. Covers moderately edgeworn, binding still sturdy and tight, no marking or writing. 92 pp.
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