Excerpt from American Bibliography, Vol. 4: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America, From the Genesis of Printing in 1639, Down to and Including the Year 1820, With Bibliographical and Biographical Notes In Rhode Island, in 1765, at Providence, William Goddard printed, and published by authority, The Rights of Colonies examined, by Stephen Hopkins, which precipitated a spirited controversy. Martin Howard, junior, replying to this with A Letter from a gentleman at Halifax to his friend in rhode-island, which was printed at Newport by Samuel Hall. To Howard, James Otis replied with A Vindication of the British Colonies against the aspersions of the Halifax gentleman, which was printed by Edes and Gill in Boston. Howard's rejoinder to this is entitled, A Defence of the Letter from a gentleman at Halifax, to his friend in rhode-island, printed by Samuel Hall at Newport; and it elicited from Otis Brief remarks on the Defence of the Halifax libel on the british american Colonies, printed at Boston by Edes and Gill being sustained by the anonymous writer of A Letter to the author of the Halifax Letter, occasioned by his book, entitled A Defence of that Letter. In 1767, at Newport, Samuel Hall printed the fourth revision of the Acts and laws of rhode-island. In 1768, at Providence, John Waterman printed Silas Downer's Discourse at the dedication of the Tree of Liberty, the reported interesting ceremonies being general, probably, on like occasions in the Colonies. In 1769, fostered and encouraged by the Phila delphian Association, was founded the Warren Association of Baptist Churches in New England, whose influence in the cause of civil and religious liberty has been continuous to the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.