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Title: Proposals, for printing by subscription, in one volume octavo; Travels, through North and South-Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Identifier(s): text:779; APSimg6689; Goodman Number: 315
Description: Prospectus for Bartram's Travels originally enclosed in a letter from Enoch Story, Jr. to Benjamin Franklin in which the Philadelphia printer sought permission to dedicate the volume to the venerable Franklin and requested that he use his influence to see that the work "not perish for want of encouragement" (see F:85:vol.41:no.201). Though Story did not come to publish Travels, the work did appear five years later from the presses of James and Johnson (see Goodman #316).; Hays reference #: Vol. 76, no. 36. Oversized.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Discovery & exploration; Natural history; Indians of North America
Date: 1786

Title: The names and births of the children of John and Ann Bartram, viz.
Identifier(s): text:243; APSimg6471; Goodman Number: 200; 973 C683 No. 736
Description: Lists the ten children of this famed American botanist-explorer and nurseryman, at least two of whom followed their father in choice of vocation.; Clipping
Creator: Philadelphia County (Pa.). Kingsess Township
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Bartram, John, 1699-1777; Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Date: n.d.

Title: Title Page of Botanical and zoological drawings, 1756-1788
Identifier(s): text:167521
Source: 580 B29B.E (580 B29B.E); http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=9543
Subject: Bartram, William, 1739-1823; American Philosophical Society; British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Botany; Fothergill, John, 1712-1780; Ewan, Joseph Andorfer, 1909- [ed.]; Natural history -- Pictorial works; Botany -- Pictorial works; Zoology -- Pictorial works
Date: 1968

Title: To the representatives of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, the representation and petition of the subscribers, citizens of Pennsylvania...
Identifier(s): text:136733; Paine 74 P38t
Description: A petition to enact stricter enforcement of the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, passed by the Pennsylvania legislature on 1 March 1780, particularly regarding the prevention of slave trading shops being outfitted in Philadelphia’s port. Signers of the petition: Bingham, James; Francis, Thomas; Parrish, Isaac, 1735-1826; Marshall, John, 1755-1835; Batton, Robert; Sermon, Joseph; Nugent, Edmond; [?], John Head; Collins, Zaccheus, 1764-1831; Budd, Joseph; Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813; Hunter, Samuel, 1732-1784; Blackham, Richard; [?]; Wagner, Jacob, 1717-1799; Miller, Thomas; Dubois, A.; [Barrhill], Robert; Sansom, Samuel; Stuart, James; Sansom, William, 1763-1840; Watson, Thomas; Hall, Richard; [?], John; Swift, Charles; Barker, John, 1745 or 1746-1818; Hahn, Christian; Hartley, James; Jay, Thomas; Smith, William W.; [?], George; Fleming, John; [?], Peter S.; Hornor, Benjamin, 1769-1810; Paschall, Thomas; Wells, William; [Lockart], John; [Lusky], Josiah; Craig, William; Hutchinson, Mahlon; Horton, Azariah; Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809; McNair, Solomon; Jenkins, William; Honeyman, W.; Bolton, Everard; Bolton, Isaac; Drinker, Joseph D.; Shewell, Stephen; West, William; Correy, Samuel; Sackett, Joseph, Jr.; [Buckbee], Isaac; Le [?], John; Hockley, [John]; Burklon, Jacob; Signed on both sides by 124 individuals.
Creator: “Pennsylvania Citizens”et al
Subject: Slave trade--United States--History; Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802; Aitken, Robert, 1767-1823; Bartram, John, 1699-1777; Bartram, John, 1743-1812; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809; Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813; African Americans--History--18th century; Slavery--United States--History--18th century; Anti-slavery movements--United States--History; Abolitionists--Political activity--United States; Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1783; Pennsylvania
Date: approximately 1780