Address to the People of Rockbridge County.

• imprint_number: 1817.071
• title: An address of the committee, appointed by the Bible Society of Lexington Virginia, to the people of Rockbridge County, soliciting their patronage to said society.
• sequence_number: 71
• year: 1817
• place_issued: Harrisonburg
• issuing_press: Lawrence Wartmann
• author: Bible Society of Lexington, Virginia.
• notes: Society was formed in late 1816 as an auxiliary of the American Bible Society; this title carries the society's constitution after the offered address [p. 15-18] with a list of its officers; among them are president George Addison Baxter (1771-1841), then Rector of Washington College (today the Washington & Lee University) and Presbyterian publishers Andrew B. Davidson (corresponding secretary) and Valentine M. Mason (recording secretary).
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Rev. Andrew Baker Davidson
  • Rev. Valentine M. Mason
  • Laurentz Wartmann

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