Biographies of Sir William Phips, Israel Putnam, Lucretia Maria Davidson, and David Rittenhouse. Conducted by Jared Sparks in relation with The Library of American Biography, volume 7. The purpose of this text is to select prominent names, to" which opportunity and inclination may attract the different writers, and thus enable them to perform the task of a biographer with the more fidelity and interest in the subject.

Full scan of the lives of Sir William Phips, Israel Putnam, Lucretia Maria Davidson, and David Rittenhouse. Apart of The Library of American Biography, volume 7. Slight foxing among many pages.