An Attention to the Scriptures by Shippie Townsend - 1795: For an answer to the important inquiry, wheather unbelievers are under the law and under the curse

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Printed at Boston for the Author by Thomas Adams 1792. first edition. small octavo. Removed from larger binding at some point in time. 21p. Includes halftitle before titlepage. Lacks original cover o/w complete. Good , no ownership marks; no tears; no chips. Light staining on about half the pages. Very Scarce. .

Boston: E. Russell, 1788. First edition. Octavo. 107, [1, contents and errata] pp. Modern half red cloth over brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some browning and last leaf trimmed tight at the edge (no loss). A very good copy.In the late 1760s Shippie Townsend, a blockmaker, left the Old South Meeting-House Congregation in Boston as he has become a Sandemanian, or one who believed that it was their duty to "give unto Caesar what is Caesar's'; i.e. he supported the colonial government of England during the Revolutionary War. Many of his fellow Sandemanians sailed away with the British navy in 1776 and resettled in Canada. "But Townsend stayed behind. In August, the Boston Committee of Correspondence complained that he wasn’t fulfilling his militia requirement. Eventually he and the few remaining Sandemanians convinced the authorities that they weren’t threats, that they could be as loyal to the new government as [to] the old. The fact that Townsend’s son David was serving as a Continental… Read More

Boston, (MA): Printed by Adams and Nourse, for the author, and sold by him, at his house in Cross-Street, and at their office in Marlborough-Street, 1783. First edition. 8vo. 20 cm. 60pp. Disbound. Old tidelines, particularly on title page, and overall toning to text. Upper right corners curled and some chipping to edges of last page not affecting text. EVANS 18214. ESTC W27788. Townsend a block maker who had once been a member of the Old South Meeting House in Boston, became a Sandemanian, a sect which preached loyalty to the King. This put him in conflict with the prevailing political sentiments in New England at the time of the American Revolution. He later became a Universalist.