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Maker(s):Humphreys, David
Culture:American (1752-1818)
Title:book: An Essay on the Life of the Honourable Major-General Israel Putnam
Date Made:1794
Type:Book
Materials:paper, ink
Place Made:United States; Connecticut; Middletown
Accession Number:  HD 2997
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
"An Essay on the Life of the Honourable Major-General Israel Putnam: addressed to the State Society of the Cincinnati in Connecticut" by David Humphreys (1752-1818) who served as Putnam’s aide-de-camp during the American Revolution. Major-General Israel Putnam (1718-1790) is best known today for an utterance he supposedly made during the battle of Bunker Hill: “Don’t fire ‘til you see the whites of their eyes.” This book was first published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1788 in Connecticut; this edition was published in Middletown, and printed by Moses H. Woodward for Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, 1794.

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