Letters from the British Settlement in Pennsylvania: To Which are Added, the Constitutions of the United States, and of Pennsylvania: And Extracts from the Laws Respecting Aliens and Naturalized Citizens

Charles Britten Johnson

H. Hall ; By John Miller, Philadelphia, 209, Chestnut street, 1819

[British Settlement in the Early American Republic] 12mo. 185 pages + 12 p. catalogue of books for sale by John Miller. Cloth boards with new leather spine. "Written to discourage emigration to Birkbeck's 'fever prairies' or to other trans- Alleghany colonies" - Howes J128.  Sabin 36198. Includes fascinating sections on Indians, Robbery, Slavery, General Jackson, mutual interest of Great Britain and the United States, stability and extent of the Union, contempt of religion, diseases, no state taxes, land purchasing, cultivation, aspects of Susquehanna County, Valley of Wyoming, etc.   

Attributed to Dr. Rose. cf. Rich, Bibl. amer. nova, v. 2, p. 119. Published by authority of the British emigrant society, Susquehanna Co., Pa.