The Yankee Spy: Calculated for the Religious Meridian of Massachusetts, but Will Answer for New-hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont, W

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Yankee spy: calculated for the religious meridian of Massachusetts, but will answer for New-Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont, without any material alterations. Author: John LelandPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00846800CollectionID: CTRG10256221-BPublicationDate: 17940101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Included among Leland's works in: The writings of the late Elder John Leland, New York, 1845. Date of publication from colophon, p. 20. Collation: 20 p.; 20 cm. (12mo) Contributor Bio:  Leland, John John Leland is a reporter for the New York Times and former editor in chief of Details, and he was an original columnist at SPIN magazine. Robert Christgau of the Village Voice called him "the best American postmod critic (the best new American rock critic period)," and Chuck D of Public Enemy said the nasty parts of the song "Bring the Noise" were written about him. He lives in Manhattan's East Village with his wife, Risa, and son, Jordan.