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William Linn

Biography 
Rev. Dr. William Linn (1752-1808) was a New York City preacher and theologian who lived at 66 Cortlandt Street. He was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from Princeton College in 1772. After serving as both minister and pastor in Pennsylvania, he became the president of Washington Academy in Maryland in 1784. Linn came to New York City in 1786 as the new pastorate at Collegiate Church. He served as the chaplain of the House of Representatives in 1789 and 1790 and as a regent for the State University of New York from 1787 to 1808.
Local Note 
William Linn was a trustee of the New York Society Library from 1794 to 1805.
Mentioned 
Date OutTextVolSizeDate InRepFinesPage
07/24/1789Goldsmith's Animated Nature312mo.08/14/1789Self7d005
08/14/1789Goldsmith's Animated Nature412mo.08/21/1789Self 009
08/28/1789Goldsmith's An. Nature512mo.09/11/1789Self 012
09/11/1789Goldsmith's An Nature612mo.09/16/1789Self 015
10/19/1789Sheridan's Art of reading 8vo.11/06/1789  027
11/23/1789Reid's Essays18vo.01/15/1790 5s150
01/18/1790Brydone's Tour 8vo.01/29/1790  150
01/29/1790Derham's Phisoco Theo 8vo.01/29/1790  150
01/29/1790Clarissa112mo.02/05/1790  150
02/05/1790Alexander's Hist. Women28vo.02/17/1790  150
02/22/1790Clarissa212mo.02/26/1790  150
02/26/1790"312mo.02/28/1790  150
03/01/1790"712mo.03/05/1790  150
03/05/1790Robertson's America18vo.03/19/1790  150
03/19/1790Peregrine Pickle112mo.03/29/1790  150
03/29/1790"212mo.04/12/1790  150
04/12/1790Beauties Magazine212mo.04/16/1790  150
04/16/1790Chastelleux Travels28vo.05/03/1790  150
04/21/1790Moore's Fables 8vo.05/12/1790  150
06/09/1790Recess1 06/23/1790  150
06/23/1790Kaim's art of thinking 12mo.06/30/1790  150
07/26/1790Chapone's Letters1 08/06/1790  150
08/06/1790Goldsmith Nature7 08/10/1790  150
08/18/1790"8 08/25/1790  150
08/25/1790Zeluco1 09/03/1790  150
09/03/1790"2 09/06/1790  150
09/06/1790Ela  09/09/1790  150
09/09/1790Arpasia1 09/13/1790  150
09/13/1790"2 09/14/1790  150
09/14/1790Fairy tales2 09/15/1790  150
09/15/1790Children's Friend1 09/16/1790  150
09/16/1790"2 09/17/1790  150
09/17/1790"3 09/18/1790  150
09/18/1790Persian Tales  09/20/1790  150
09/20/1790Plutarch's Lives1 09/29/1790  150
09/29/1790Clio 12mo.10/01/1790  150
10/01/1790Beauties Genlis  10/02/1790  150
10/02/1790Anna1 10/04/1790  150
10/04/1790"2 10/06/1790  150
10/06/1790Louisa  10/07/1790  150
10/07/1790Fair Syrian1 10/08/1790  150
10/08/1790Fielding12 10/11/1790  150
10/11/1790"11 10/15/1790  150
10/15/1790Platonic Guardian10 10/19/1790  150
10/19/1790Langhorne's Plutarch2 10/26/1790  150
10/25/1790Geo Bateman1 10/28/1790  150
10/28/1790Zoriada  10/29/1790  150
10/29/1790Parental Solicitude  11/10/1790  150
11/10/1790Geo Bateman2 11/12/1790  150
11/12/1790Vicar of Bray1 11/13/1790  150
11/13/1790Recess1 11/18/1790  150
11/18/1790Beauties History2 11/21/1790  150
11/22/1790Matilda1 11/24/1790  150
11/24/1790"2 11/25/1790  150
11/25/1790"3 11/30/1790  150
11/30/1790Recess2 12/04/1790  150
12/04/1790Beauties History1 12/10/1790  150
12/10/1790Littleton's Eng.1 12/22/1790  150
12/22/1790Fingal  12/27/1790  150
12/27/1790Baron Trenck  12/28/1790  150
12/27/1790Langhorne's Plutarch3 12/31/1790Baldwin 150
12/31/1790Burgh's dignity of human nature2 01/07/1791  150
01/07/1791Beatty's Disserations2 01/17/1791  150
01/17/1791Burlemaqui on nat. law1 01/28/1791  150
01/28/1791"2 02/08/1791  150
02/08/1791Essay on crimes  02/14/1791  150
02/14/1791Smith's Longinus 12mo.02/18/1791  150
02/18/1791Leland's Demosthenes1 02/23/1791  150
02/23/1791"2 02/25/1791  150
02/25/1791Ferguson's Lectures  03/03/1791  150
03/03/1791Baxters Matho1 03/09/1791Self 150
03/09/1791Caroline1 03/10/1791  150
03/10/1791Fairy tales1 03/11/1791  150
03/11/1791Lady's Ency.1 03/14/1791  150
03/14/1791Edward Mortimer  03/15/1791  150
03/15/1791Caroline2 03/17/1791  150
03/17/1791Buffoon5 03/21/1791  150
03/21/1791Louisa1 03/23/1791  150
03/24/1791"2 03/28/1791  150
03/28/1791Beauties Pope  03/30/1791  150
03/30/1791Paul & Mary  03/31/1791  150
03/31/1791Lady's Ency.2 04/04/1791  150
04/04/1791Marriage act  04/07/1791  150
04/07/1791Lavater2 04/11/1791  150
04/12/1791Theatre14 04/13/1791  150
04/13/1791Lydia1 04/15/1791  150
04/15/1791H. Somerville1 04/19/1791  150
04/19/1791"2 04/23/1791  150
04/20/1791"3 04/21/1791  150
04/21/1791"4 04/22/1791  150
04/22/1791Lydia2 04/23/1791  150
04/23/1791Lavater1 04/26/1791  150
04/26/1791Adventurer1 04/29/1791  150
04/29/1791Zelia  04/30/1791  150
04/30/1791Life Cromwell  05/02/1791  150
05/02/1791Adelaide & Theodore  05/03/1791  150
05/03/1791Dramatic Pieces  05/11/1791  150
05/06/1791Peter the Cruel1 05/09/1791  150
05/09/1791Centlivre  05/17/1791  150
05/18/1791Man of feeling  05/19/1791  150
05/19/1791Emma Melcombe  05/23/1791  150
05/23/1791Charles & Theresa  05/25/1791  150
05/24/1791Ethelinde1 05/27/1791  150
05/27/1791Lady Woodford2 05/28/1791  150
05/28/1791Davies Plays  06/01/1791  150
06/01/1791Zelia2 06/02/1791  150
06/02/1791Lavater3 06/03/1791  150
06/03/1791Luxborough  06/03/1791  150
06/03/1791Mod. Times  06/04/1791  150
06/04/1791Shipwreck  06/11/1791  150
06/06/1791Ethelinde  06/07/1791  150
06/07/1791Mod. Times  06/11/1791  150
06/11/1791Fool Quality1 06/13/1791  150
06/13/1791Children's Friend  06/14/1791  150
06/14/1791Fool Quality2 06/15/1791  150
06/15/1791Pindar's Works1 06/16/1791  150
06/16/1791Irvin's Adventures  06/17/1791  150
06/17/1791Fool Quality  06/19/1791  150
06/19/1791Aesculus  06/20/1791  150
06/20/1791Love & Madness  06/21/1791  150
06/21/1791Ethelinde  06/23/1791  150
06/23/1791Fool Quality4 06/24/1791  150
06/25/1791New York Mag.  06/29/1791  150
06/29/1791Col. Mag.2 07/05/1791  150
07/05/1791Cooks Voyage  07/14/1791  150
07/14/1791"  07/18/1791  150
07/18/1791"  07/23/1791  150
07/23/1791Emmeline1 07/23/1791  150
07/23/1791Juv. Indiscretions1 07/26/1791  150
07/26/1791Female Stability1 07/28/1791  150
07/28/1791"2 07/30/1791  150
07/30/1791Juv. Indiscretions2 07/31/1791  150
08/01/1791Cleggs Memoirs     150
08/04/1791George Matiland2 08/05/1791  150
08/05/1791"  08/08/1791  150
08/08/1791Litt. Mag2 08/10/1791  150
08/10/1791No. 447  08/15/1791  150
08/15/1791Bruce5 08/22/1791  150
08/22/1791Bellamy1 08/23/1791  150
08/23/1791Fair Hibernian  08/24/1791  150
08/24/1791Idler1 08/25/1791  150
08/25/1791Goldsmith's An. Nature1 08/29/1791  150
08/29/1791"2 09/01/1791  150
09/01/1791"3 09/06/1791  150
09/06/1791Emmeline2 09/08/1791  150
09/08/1791Independent  09/16/1791  150
09/16/1791Greville1 09/21/1791  150
09/21/1791Norman Tales  09/23/1791  150
09/23/1791Greville2 09/26/1791  150
09/26/1791Rabelais  09/27/1791  150
09/27/1791Edwy & Edilda  09/28/1791  150
09/28/1791Delia1 10/03/1791  150
10/03/1791"2 10/05/1791  150
10/05/1791Cit World1 10/10/1791  150
10/10/1791Female Stability4 10/10/1791  150
10/10/1791Sutton Abbey  10/19/1791  150
10/19/1791Diversities of Fortune1 10/21/1791  150
10/21/1791"2 10/24/1791  150
10/24/1791Country Maid1 10/26/1791  150
10/26/1791Edwin & Anna  10/29/1791  150
10/29/1791Emma Melcombe  11/01/1791  150
11/01/1791Prince Eugene  11/05/1791  150
11/05/1791Diversities of Fortune1 11/07/1791  150
11/07/1791"2 11/10/1791  150
11/10/1791Retribution1 11/11/1791  150
11/11/1791Castle Mowbray  11/14/1791  150
11/14/1791Julia  11/19/1791  150
11/18/1791Errors Nature  11/19/1791  150
11/19/1791Myrtle1 11/21/1791  150
11/21/1791Phebe1 11/22/1791  150
11/22/1791"2 11/23/1791  150
11/23/1791Ethelwolff1 11/28/1791  150
11/28/1791Reverie1 11/29/1791  150
11/29/1791Ethelwolf2 12/01/1791  150
12/01/1791Consett's Tour  12/06/1791  150
12/01/1791Tales Imagination  12/03/1791  150
12/03/1791Castle Mowbray  12/06/1791  150
12/07/1791Chinese traveller1 12/14/1791  150
12/07/1791Simple Story1 12/11/1791  150
12/10/1791"2 12/14/1791  150
12/14/1791"3 12/17/1791  150
12/17/1791"4 12/19/1791  150
12/19/1791Sylph  12/23/1791  150
12/19/1791Hartly House  12/23/1791  150
12/23/1791Johnson's Anecdotes  12/27/1791  150
12/24/1791Jon. of Gaunt2 12/27/1791  150
12/27/1791Fable bees2 12/30/1791  150
12/27/1791Newtonian Philo.1 01/03/1792  150
12/30/1791Simpson's Euclid  01/04/1792  150
01/04/1792Grandison2 01/06/1792  150
01/04/1792Classics2 01/11/1792  150
01/06/1792Grandison3 01/07/1792  150
01/07/1792Table talk  01/20/1792  150
01/11/1792Spelman's Xenophon1 01/12/1792  150
01/12/1792Art of Torments  01/16/1792  150
01/16/1792Friar Gerund   01/21/1792  150
01/21/1792Harrison Cleese2 01/25/1792  150
01/21/1792Lexephanies  01/23/1792  150
01/23/1792Poetical Mag.2 01/26/1792  150
01/26/1792"  01/30/1792  150
01/30/1792"4 02/02/1792  150
01/30/1792Bateman  02/03/1792  150
02/02/1792Emma1 02/03/1792  150
02/03/1792Bateman2 02/03/1792  150
02/03/1792Clement Letter  02/07/1792  150
02/06/1792Life Voltaire  02/16/1792  150
02/07/1792Lady Mag.  02/16/1792  150
02/16/1792Lady Lib.  02/20/1792  150
02/16/1792" Ency.3 02/17/1792  150
02/18/1792Parke/Paxter Misc  02/20/1792  150
02/20/1792Classics7 02/23/1792  150
02/20/1792Farces1 02/23/1792  150
02/23/1792George play  02/28/1792  150
02/23/1792Farces4 02/27/1792  150
02/27/1792School for W.  03/02/1792  150
02/28/1792Lt. Mag1 03/06/1792  150
03/02/1792Lit. Mag2 03/06/1792  150
03/06/1792"3 03/12/1792  150
03/06/1792"4 03/12/1792  150
03/12/1792Ed. Mortimer  03/13/1792  142
03/12/1792Lamberts works1 03/15/1792  142
03/13/1792Senti. Beauties  03/24/1792  142
03/15/1792Goldsmith Beauties  03/19/1792  142
03/19/1792Par. Solicitude  03/24/1792  142
03/24/1792Johnson 23 03/29/1792  142
03/24/1792"29 03/29/1792  142
03/29/1792"152 03/31/1792  142
04/02/1792Gustavus Vasa  04/21/1792 5d142
04/08/1792Savage2 04/10/1792  142
04/10/1792Voltaire37 04/12/1792  142
04/12/1792Field8 04/17/1792  142
04/17/1792Bee3 04/21/1792  142
04/21/1792"6&4 04/25/1792  142
04/25/1792Johnson30&31 04/28/1792  142
04/28/1792Recess1 05/05/1792  142
04/28/1792Johnson25 05/05/1792  142