Imprint Record

Candid Refutation of Robert Carter Nicholas.

• Imprint Number: 1774.003
• Title: A candid refutation of the heresy imputed by Ro. C. Nicholas Esquire to the Reverend S. Henley.
• Sequence Number: 3
• Year: 1774
• Place Issued: Williamsburg
• Issuing Press: Purdie & Dixon
• Author: Henley, Samuel (1740-1815).
• Notes: Title page lacks printer credit; it simply notes: "Printed for B. White in London, D. Prince in Oxford, and J. Woodyer in Cambridge," all Anglican ministers who had served in Virginia. Composed as a letter, signed by Henley on March 15, 1774, who was professor of moral philosophy at the College of William & Mary.
  Probably a Purdie & Dixon issue as their press was the only one in Williamsburg producing non-official imprints in 1774; they also published a Henley sermon that May (1774.004).
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • John Dixon Sr.
  • Alexander Purdie, Sr.

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