Publisher's Synopsis
Title: A continuation of the account of the orphan-house in Georgia, from January 1740/1, to January 1742/3: to which is prefixed the prefact to the former account, and a plan of the building: there are also subjoin'd, some extracts from an account of a work of a like nature, carried on by the late Professor Franck in Glaucha near Hall in Saxony.Author: George WhitefieldPublisher: 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: SABCP00721700CollectionID: CTRG10191086-BPublicationDate: 17430101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "Extracts from a Book, intituled, Pietas Hallensis: Or, A Publick Demonstration of the Footsteps of a Divine Being yet in the Word: In an historical Narration of the Orphan-House, and other charitable Institutions, at Glaucha near Hall in Saxony. By Augustus Hermannus Franck ... Continued to the Beginning of the year 1702. In a Letter to a Friend. And now done out of High-Dutch into English, and printed in the year 1727 ..." p. 54-129.Collation: xii, 13-132 p., [1] folded leaf of plates: 1 plan; 15 cm. (12mo)
