Lot 926

"The London Lawyer" by Rev. William Raymond ANTIQUE 1894 Wraps Struggle For Land For Ousted Tories In Canada 1st /1st

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"The London Lawyer" by Rev. William Raymond ANTIQUE 1894 Wraps Struggle For Land For Ousted Tories In Canada 1st /1st

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by The Book Barn
August 13, 2026 5:00 PM EDT
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ANTIQUE 1894 Wraps Tory Lawyer's Struggle For Land For Ousted Tories In St. John's N.B. 1st Edition 1st Printing. "The London Lawyer: A Biographical Sketch Of Elias Hardy, Counsellor-at-law At Saint John, N.B., A.D. 1784-1798, Some Account Of The Incidents In Which He Figured" by Reverend William Raymond. ORIGINAL WRAPS 1894 New Brunswick Historical 1st Edition 1st Printing with Date: "1894" on the title page. SCARCE ORIGINAL CANADIAN TORY SETTLEMENT T1TLE; ONLY ONE ORIGINAL COPY ON THE INTERNET AT TIME OF LISTING.

"A short biography of 12 pages of Elias Hardy (1744-1798) who was born in England in 1744. He was the son of a minister. Hardy studied law and was admitted to practice as a solicitor. He travelled to the Virginia colony in 1775 but found that he was unable to practice law there because he expressed Loyalist sympathies. After he criticized Thomas Paine, he was forced to flee to NYC. Hardy married Martha Hungerford, the daughter of a New York loyalist. In 1783, he help lead a protest against a petition by a group of 55 elite loyalist for huge land grants of 5,000 acres (20 km2) in Nova Scotia. Later that year, he joined a group of loyalists settling in the Saint John River area which became part of the new colony of New Brunswick, where he was known as the "London lawyer." There, he represented other settlers in protesting perceived favoritism by land agents in the distribution of property. In 1790, he defended Munson Hoyt against a charge of slander by Benedict Arnold after Hoyt accused Arnold of burning his own store in Saint John."

Internally tight & unmarked, paper lightly toning but not brittle. Binding exterior: light handling wear; no book slant.

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