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Cadwallader Colden (16)

Election date: 1744 (Elected to the original American Philosophical Society.)

Cadwallader Colden (7 February 1688–20 September 1776) was a scientist, historian, politician, and diplomat and an enthusiastic early member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1744. Born in Ireland to Scottish parents, Colden studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh and received medical training in London before immigrating to Philadelphia in 1710. In 1717 he relocated to New York, where he became surveyor general in 1720. Colden had interests in astronomy, cartography, and botany; invented a form of stereotype printing; translated Cicero and wrote works on politics, history, and philosophy (many of them unpublished); and corresponded with APS members like Benjamin Franklin and European naturalists like Carolus Linnaeus, who printed Colden’s catalogue of Hudson Valley flora in the transactions of the Swedish Royal Society. In 1721 he was appointed to the Provincial Council and led a press campaign to discredit Governor William Cosby as an enemy of popular liberty. After serving as chief adviser to Governor George Clinton between 1746 and 1753, Colden led the colony as lieutenant governor for four terms between 1760 and 1775. Drifting from the Whig principles of his youth to a defense of royal prerogative and metropolitan oversight of colonial affairs, Colden became the object of popular ire when indignation about his handling of local controversies merged with resentment against the Stamp Act during the lead-up to the Revolution. The aging Loyalist retired to his estate as an independent government began to form and died there shortly afterwards. His published works include a treatise on Newtonian physics and an influential account of the Iroquois that grew out of his role as a representative to the Confederacy. While she was not an APS member, his daughter Jane Colden is often called America’s first female botanist. (PI, ANB, DNB, DAB)

Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.001

An abstract from Dr. Berkley's [sic] treatise on tar-water, : with some reflexions thereon, adapted to diseases frequent in America.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author) | Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 (Author)

Publication:

New York: Printed and sold by J. Parker, at the new printing office in Bever-Street [sic], 1745.

Subjects:

Tar. | Patent medicines.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Evans 5539

APS Subjects:

Pathology | Medicine | Natural History | Science

Editions:

1x 1745

Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.002

All Canada in the hands of the English : or, an authentick journal of the proceedings of the army, under General Amherst, from the time it embarked at Oswego, on the 10th of August (1760) to the happy reduction of Montreal, the 8th of September following : together with several other particulars relating to Canada.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Contributor)

Publication:

Boston: Printed and sold by B. Mecom, at the new printing office, under the Town-House, [1760]

Subjects:

United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- Campaigns. | Canada -- History -- 1755-1763.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Sabin 10349 | Evans 8527

APS Subjects:

Editions:

1x 1760

Editions Note:

One edition. Colden is not the sole author, but other contributors are not identified.

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.003

The conduct of Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, late Lieutenant-Governor of New York : relating to the judges commissions, appeals to the King, and the stamp-duty.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author)

Publication:

[London], [1767]

Subjects:

Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765). | New York (State) -- Politics and government -- To 1775.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Sabin 14276 | Evans 10582 | Howes C 558a | Streeter II: 873

APS Subjects:

American Revolution | Commerce | Economics | Law | Politics

Editions:

2x 1767 (London, New York)

Editions Note:

Two editions, both in 1767: one in London and one in New York, though bibliographers sometimes argue that there was just one edition, printed at one or the other location. Attributed to Colden, though written about him in the third-person.

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.004

An explication of the first causes of action in matter, and, of the cause of gravitation.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author)

Publication:

New York: Printed by James Parker, 1745.

Subjects:

Gravitation.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Sabin 14267 | Sabin 14268 | Sabin 14269 | Evans 5564 | Howes C 559

APS Subjects:

Philosophy | Physics | Science

Editions:

1x 1745 (New York), 1x 1746 (London), 1x 1748 (Leipzig and/or Hamburg), 2x 1751 (London, Bordeaux and/or Paris), 1x 1752 (London)

Editions Note:

Colden's text was printed several times in various forms. Following the publication of the first edition in New York in 1745, a pirated version appeared in London 1746 under the title, An explication of the first causes of action in matter : and of the cause of gravitation. The text was published in German translation, with additional notes, in Leipzig, Hamburg, or both, in 1748. Through the efforts of the Comte de Buffon, it also appeared in French translation in Bordeaux, Paris, or both in 1751 as Explication des premierès causes de l'action dans la matière et de la gravitation, traduit de l'anglais. The final editions, heavily revised and expanded, appeared under the new title, The principles of action in matter, and the gravitation of bodies, and the motion of the planets explained from those principles in London in 1751 and again under the same title in London in 1752. Another edition was prepared, but did not appear in print because of the poor reception of earlier editions by ardent Newtonians; the manuscript remains at the University of Edinburgh. Some bibliographies mention a London edition published under the original title (and presumably without any additional material) in 1751 and then date the sole appearance of the final edition as 1752.

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.005

The history of the five Indian nations depending on the province of New-York in America.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author)

Publication:

[New York]: Printed and sold by William Bradford in New-York, 1727.

Subjects:

Iroquois Indians. | New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

APS Subjects:

Editions:

1x 1727 (New York), 1x 1747 (London), 1x 1750 (London), 1x 1755 (London), 1x 1866 (New York)

Editions Note:

Colden's text was printed several times in various forms. Editions subsequent to the New York first edition of 1727 were expanded. They include: The history of the five Indian nations of Canada, which are dependent on the province of New-York in America, and are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world ... (London 1747; considerably altered by the printer); an identical work with a new title page, naming it as the second edition, The history of the five Indian nations of Canada, : which are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world ... (London, 1750); and a named third edition in two volumes, The history of the five Indian nations of Canada, : which are dependent on the province of New-York in America, and are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world ... (London, 1755). A facsimile of the first edition also appeared in New York in 1866 as The history of the five Indian nations depending on the province of New-York.

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.006

The interest of the country in laying duties : or a discourse, shewing how duties on some sorts of merchandize may make the province of New-York richer than it would be without them.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author)

Publication:

[New York]: Sold by J. Peter Zenger, near the City-Hall in New-York, [1726]

Subjects:

Protectionism. | Tariff -- New York (State). | Tariff -- United States. | United States -- Commercial policy.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Sabin 34882 | Sabin 100770 | Evans 3289 | Evans 39842

APS Subjects:

Commerce | Economics | Law | Politics

Editions:

2x 1726

Editions Note:

One English edition plus a Dutch translation that was published in New York the same year and by the same printer, under the title, Het voordeel van het land in de oplegginge van tollen : of een redeneering, aanwysende, hoe tollen op eenige koopmanschappen de provincie van Nieuw-York konnen ryker macken, als die sal zyn sonder de selve. Not to be confused with The interest of the country in laying no duties (New York, 1726).

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.007

Papers relating to an act of the Assembly of the province of New-York, for encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada : I. a petition of the merchants of London to His Majesty, against the said act : II. His Majesty's order in Council, referring the said petition to the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantation : III. extract of the minutes of the said Lords, concerning some allegation of the merchants before them : IV. the report of the said Lords to His Majesty on the merchants petition, and other allegations : V. the report of the Committee of Council of the province of New-York, in answer to the said petition : VI. a memorial concerning the fur-trade of New York, by C. Colden, Esq; : with a map.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Editor and Author) | New York (Colony) ( Corporate Author) | Great Britain. Sovereign (1714-1727 : George I) (Corporate Author) | Great Britain. Board of Trade (Corporate Author) | New York (Colony). Council (Corporate Author)

Publication:

[New York]: Printed and sold by William Bradford in the city of New-York, 1724.

Subjects:

Fur trade -- New York (State) Fur trade -- Canada. | Indians of North America -- Commerce. | New York (State) -- Commerce. | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Sabin 14272 | Evans 2512 | Evans 2513 | Evans 3921 | Howes C 561

APS Subjects:

Editions:

1x 1724

Editions Note:

One edition, though the map is sometimes cataloged (and may have been issued) separately. Colden's essay (Part VI) was reprinted with all editions of his History of the five Indian nations beginning with the second London edition of 1750.

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.008

The speech of the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; His Majesty’s lieut. governor and commander in chief of the colony of New-York, and the territories depending thereon in America : to His Majesty’s Council, and the General Assembly of the colony of New-York, on the 22 of November, 1769.

Creator(s):

New York (State). Lieutenant Governor (1760-1775 : Colden) [Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776] (Author)

Publication:

[New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine], [1769]

Subjects:

Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. | New York (State) -- Politics and government -- To 1775.

Record Source:

ESTC

References:

Evans 11368

APS Subjects:

Law | Politics

Editions:

1x 1769

Editions Note:

One edition.

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16.009

The speech of the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; His Majesty's lieutenant governor and commander in chief of the province of New-York, and the territories depending thereon in America : to the Council and General Assembly of the said province.

Creator(s):

New York (Colony). Lieutenant Governor (1761-1775 : Colden) [Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776] (Author)

Publication:

[New York: Printed by William Weyman], [1761]

Subjects:

New York (State). Militia. | New York (State) -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Evans 8955

APS Subjects:

Law | Politics

Editions:

1x 1761

Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): Cadwallader Colden

16.010

Creator(s):

New York (Colony). Lieutenant Governor (1761-1775 : Colden) [Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776] (Author)

Publication:

[New York: Printed by William Weyman], [1764]

Subjects:

New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Evans 9758

APS Subjects:

Law | Politics

Editions:

1x 1764

Editions Note:

One edition.

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16.011

Speech of the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; president of His Majesty's Council, and commander in chief of the province of New-York, and the territories depending thereon in America : to the Council and General Assembly of the said province.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author) | New York (Colony). Council. (Corporate Author)

Publication:

[New York: Printed by William Weyman], [1760]

Subjects:

New York (State) -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763.

Record Source:

AAS

References:

Evans 8688

APS Subjects:

Law | Politics

Editions:

1x 1760

Editions Note:

One edition.

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16.012

A treaty, between His Excellency the Honourable George Clinton ... and the Six United Indian Nations, and other Indian nations, depending on the province of New-York : held at Albany in the months of August and September, 1746.

Creator(s):

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author) | New York (State) (Corporate Author)

Publication:

New York: Printed and sold by James Parker at the new-printing office in Beaver-Street, 1746.

Subjects:

Iroquois Indians -- Treaties -- 1746.

Record Source:

HUNT

References:

Sabin 13740 | Evans 5791 | Howes C 492

APS Subjects:

Diplomacy | Indian | Law | Native American | Politics

Editions:

1x 1746

Editions Note:

One edition.

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