WATSON, Elkanah.

Men and Times of the Revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson

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WATSON, Elkanah. Men and Times of the Revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, including Journals of Travels in Europe and America, from 1777 to 1842, with His Correspondence with Public Men and Reminiscences and Incident of the Revolution, Edited by His Son, Winslow C. Watson. New-York: Dana and Company, 1856. 1st ed. 460pp. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Front pastedown wrinkled, faint scattered foxing, else a very good or better copy. HOWES W-167. Clark I: 324. Watson travelled through most of the American colonies in 1777 and gives a long account, though he spent the rest of the war in France. In 1785, after many European travels, he returned to America, and there are numerous later travels in upstate New York.

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