Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and form lines., Inscribed "To the Right Honourable Hugh Earl Percy ... with His Lordship's permission ... by ... Wm. Faden.", and Includes text, "References to the batteries," and "A list of the principal farms in Rhode Island."
Publisher:
Engraved & printed for Wm. Faden
Subject (Geographic):
Narragansett Bay (R.I.), Rhode Island, and Narragansett Bay
Autograph letter, signed, from George Berkeley to Martin Benson providing a brief description of Newport, Rhode Island, 1729 April 11. Berkeley notes the presence of “four sorts of Anabaptists besides Independents, Quakers, and many of no profession at all.” He also writes that he has purchased “a pleasant farm of about one hundred acres” (i.e. “Whitehall,” his plantation at Middletown).
Description:
George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher. In 1731 September, Berkeley donated his library and his plantation in Newport, Rhode Island, to Yale University. The donation doubled Yale’s library holdings., Martin Benson (1686-1752), English churchman., In English., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Rhode Island., Great Britain., Rhode Island, Newport., Middletown (R.I.), and Newport (R.I.)
Subject (Name):
Benson, Martin, 1689-1752. and Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
Subject (Topic):
Anabaptists, Philosophers, Plantations, Real property, and Religion
A wash drawing of the Rhode Island coastline near Newport, with a sailboat in the distance on the left
Alternative Title:
Scituate Beach and Purgatory from the Hanging Rocks near Newport Rhode Island
Description:
Title and date supplied by artist in lower right. and Artist identified by W.S. Lewis in a pencilled note in lower margin: "By Anthony St. John Baker, given to ABL April 1959 by Doll Hamill".
