An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, containing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most eminent persons in North America from its first settlement, and a summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States. By William Allen, D. D., president of Bowdoin College; Fellow of the Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences; and Member of the Amer. Antiq. Soc., and of the Hist. Soc. of Maine, N. Hampshire, and N. York. Second edition.

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Title An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, containing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most eminent persons in North America from its first settlement, and a summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States. By William Allen, D. D., president of Bowdoin College; Fellow of the Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences; and Member of the Amer. Antiq. Soc., and of the Hist. Soc. of Maine, N. Hampshire, and N. York. Second edition.
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Signed Author By William Allen, D. D., president of Bowdoin College; Fellow of the Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences; and Member of the Amer. Antiq. Soc., and of the Hist. Soc. of Maine, N. Hampshire, and N. York.
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Date of Publication 1832
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Date of First Publication 1809
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Copyright Statement Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by William Allen, in the Clerk's office of the District court of Maine.
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Notes From Phillis Wheatley: A Bio-bibliography: p. 766: "Africa may boast that one of her daughters, not yet 20 years old, should produce the following lines:" Ten lines from "On Imagination" follow. Phillis is said here to have died "Dec. 5. 1794, aged 31."
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Allen, William, Wheatley Peters, Phillis. An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, containing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most eminent persons in North America from its first settlement, and a summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States. By William Allen, D. D., president of Bowdoin College; Fellow of the Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences; and Member of the Amer. Antiq. Soc., and of the Hist. Soc. of Maine, N. Hampshire, and N. York. Second edition.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 24900, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/24900. Accessed 2024-11-21. 

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