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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
- Keep, Austin Baxter. History of the New York Society Library, pp. 236
- King, Marion. Books and People: Five Decades of New York's Oldest Library, pp.
- Monaghan, Frank. This was New York, the Nation's Capital in 1789, pp. 151, 153, 298
| Date Out | Text | Vol | Size | Date In | Rep | Fines | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/24/1789 | Goldsmith's Animated Nature | 3 | 12mo. | 08/14/1789 | Self | 7d | 005 |
| 08/14/1789 | Goldsmith's Animated Nature | 4 | 12mo. | 08/21/1789 | Self | 009 | |
| 08/28/1789 | Goldsmith's An. Nature | 5 | 12mo. | 09/11/1789 | Self | 012 | |
| 09/11/1789 | Goldsmith's An Nature | 6 | 12mo. | 09/16/1789 | Self | 015 | |
| 10/19/1789 | Sheridan's Art of reading | 8vo. | 11/06/1789 | 027 | |||
| 11/23/1789 | Reid's Essays | 1 | 8vo. | 01/15/1790 | 5s | 150 | |
| 01/18/1790 | Brydone's Tour | 8vo. | 01/29/1790 | 150 | |||
| 01/29/1790 | Derham's Phisoco Theo | 8vo. | 01/29/1790 | 150 | |||
| 01/29/1790 | Clarissa | 1 | 12mo. | 02/05/1790 | 150 | ||
| 02/05/1790 | Alexander's Hist. Women | 2 | 8vo. | 02/17/1790 | 150 | ||
| 02/22/1790 | Clarissa | 2 | 12mo. | 02/26/1790 | 150 | ||
| 02/26/1790 | " | 3 | 12mo. | 02/28/1790 | 150 | ||
| 03/01/1790 | " | 7 | 12mo. | 03/05/1790 | 150 | ||
| 03/05/1790 | Robertson's America | 1 | 8vo. | 03/19/1790 | 150 | ||
| 03/19/1790 | Peregrine Pickle | 1 | 12mo. | 03/29/1790 | 150 | ||
| 03/29/1790 | " | 2 | 12mo. | 04/12/1790 | 150 | ||
| 04/12/1790 | Beauties Magazine | 2 | 12mo. | 04/16/1790 | 150 | ||
| 04/16/1790 | Chastelleux Travels | 2 | 8vo. | 05/03/1790 | 150 | ||
| 04/21/1790 | Moore's Fables | 8vo. | 05/12/1790 | 150 | |||
| 06/09/1790 | Recess | 1 | 06/23/1790 | 150 | |||
| 06/23/1790 | Kaim's art of thinking | 12mo. | 06/30/1790 | 150 | |||
| 07/26/1790 | Chapone's Letters | 1 | 08/06/1790 | 150 | |||
| 08/06/1790 | Goldsmith Nature | 7 | 08/10/1790 | 150 | |||
| 08/18/1790 | " | 8 | 08/25/1790 | 150 | |||
| 08/25/1790 | Zeluco | 1 | 09/03/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/03/1790 | " | 2 | 09/06/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/06/1790 | Ela | 09/09/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 09/09/1790 | Arpasia | 1 | 09/13/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/13/1790 | " | 2 | 09/14/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/14/1790 | Fairy tales | 2 | 09/15/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/15/1790 | Children's Friend | 1 | 09/16/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/16/1790 | " | 2 | 09/17/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/17/1790 | " | 3 | 09/18/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/18/1790 | Persian Tales | 09/20/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 09/20/1790 | Plutarch's Lives | 1 | 09/29/1790 | 150 | |||
| 09/29/1790 | Clio | 12mo. | 10/01/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/01/1790 | Beauties Genlis | 10/02/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 10/02/1790 | Anna | 1 | 10/04/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/04/1790 | " | 2 | 10/06/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/06/1790 | Louisa | 10/07/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 10/07/1790 | Fair Syrian | 1 | 10/08/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/08/1790 | Fielding | 12 | 10/11/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/11/1790 | " | 11 | 10/15/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/15/1790 | Platonic Guardian | 10 | 10/19/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/19/1790 | Langhorne's Plutarch | 2 | 10/26/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/25/1790 | Geo Bateman | 1 | 10/28/1790 | 150 | |||
| 10/28/1790 | Zoriada | 10/29/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 10/29/1790 | Parental Solicitude | 11/10/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 11/10/1790 | Geo Bateman | 2 | 11/12/1790 | 150 | |||
| 11/12/1790 | Vicar of Bray | 1 | 11/13/1790 | 150 | |||
| 11/13/1790 | Recess | 1 | 11/18/1790 | 150 | |||
| 11/18/1790 | Beauties History | 2 | 11/21/1790 | 150 | |||
| 11/22/1790 | Matilda | 1 | 11/24/1790 | 150 | |||
| 11/24/1790 | " | 2 | 11/25/1790 | 150 | |||
| 11/25/1790 | " | 3 | 11/30/1790 | 150 | |||
| 11/30/1790 | Recess | 2 | 12/04/1790 | 150 | |||
| 12/04/1790 | Beauties History | 1 | 12/10/1790 | 150 | |||
| 12/10/1790 | Littleton's Eng. | 1 | 12/22/1790 | 150 | |||
| 12/22/1790 | Fingal | 12/27/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 12/27/1790 | Baron Trenck | 12/28/1790 | 150 | ||||
| 12/27/1790 | Langhorne's Plutarch | 3 | 12/31/1790 | Baldwin | 150 | ||
| 12/31/1790 | Burgh's dignity of human nature | 2 | 01/07/1791 | 150 | |||
| 01/07/1791 | Beatty's Disserations | 2 | 01/17/1791 | 150 | |||
| 01/17/1791 | Burlemaqui on nat. law | 1 | 01/28/1791 | 150 | |||
| 01/28/1791 | " | 2 | 02/08/1791 | 150 | |||
| 02/08/1791 | Essay on crimes | 02/14/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 02/14/1791 | Smith's Longinus | 12mo. | 02/18/1791 | 150 | |||
| 02/18/1791 | Leland's Demosthenes | 1 | 02/23/1791 | 150 | |||
| 02/23/1791 | " | 2 | 02/25/1791 | 150 | |||
| 02/25/1791 | Ferguson's Lectures | 03/03/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 03/03/1791 | Baxters Matho | 1 | 03/09/1791 | Self | 150 | ||
| 03/09/1791 | Caroline | 1 | 03/10/1791 | 150 | |||
| 03/10/1791 | Fairy tales | 1 | 03/11/1791 | 150 | |||
| 03/11/1791 | Lady's Ency. | 1 | 03/14/1791 | 150 | |||
| 03/14/1791 | Edward Mortimer | 03/15/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 03/15/1791 | Caroline | 2 | 03/17/1791 | 150 | |||
| 03/17/1791 | Buffoon | 5 | 03/21/1791 | 150 | |||
| 03/21/1791 | Louisa | 1 | 03/23/1791 | 150 | |||
| 03/24/1791 | " | 2 | 03/28/1791 | 150 | |||
| 03/28/1791 | Beauties Pope | 03/30/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 03/30/1791 | Paul & Mary | 03/31/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 03/31/1791 | Lady's Ency. | 2 | 04/04/1791 | 150 | |||
| 04/04/1791 | Marriage act | 04/07/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 04/07/1791 | Lavater | 2 | 04/11/1791 | 150 | |||
| 04/12/1791 | Theatre | 14 | 04/13/1791 | 150 | |||
| 04/13/1791 | Lydia | 1 | 04/15/1791 | 150 | |||
| 04/15/1791 | H. Somerville | 1 | 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 | |||
| 04/22/1791 | Lydia | 2 | 04/23/1791 | 150 | |||
| 04/23/1791 | Lavater | 1 | 04/26/1791 | 150 | |||
| 04/26/1791 | Adventurer | 1 | 04/29/1791 | 150 | |||
| 04/29/1791 | Zelia | 04/30/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 04/30/1791 | Life Cromwell | 05/02/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 05/02/1791 | Adelaide & Theodore | 05/03/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 05/03/1791 | Dramatic Pieces | 05/11/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 05/06/1791 | Peter the Cruel | 1 | 05/09/1791 | 150 | |||
| 05/09/1791 | Centlivre | 05/17/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 05/18/1791 | Man of feeling | 05/19/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 05/19/1791 | Emma Melcombe | 05/23/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 05/23/1791 | Charles & Theresa | 05/25/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 05/24/1791 | Ethelinde | 1 | 05/27/1791 | 150 | |||
| 05/27/1791 | Lady Woodford | 2 | 05/28/1791 | 150 | |||
| 05/28/1791 | Davies Plays | 06/01/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/01/1791 | Zelia | 2 | 06/02/1791 | 150 | |||
| 06/02/1791 | Lavater | 3 | 06/03/1791 | 150 | |||
| 06/03/1791 | Luxborough | 06/03/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/03/1791 | Mod. Times | 06/04/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/04/1791 | Shipwreck | 06/11/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/06/1791 | Ethelinde | 06/07/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/07/1791 | Mod. Times | 06/11/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/11/1791 | Fool Quality | 1 | 06/13/1791 | 150 | |||
| 06/13/1791 | Children's Friend | 06/14/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/14/1791 | Fool Quality | 2 | 06/15/1791 | 150 | |||
| 06/15/1791 | Pindar's Works | 1 | 06/16/1791 | 150 | |||
| 06/16/1791 | Irvin's Adventures | 06/17/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/17/1791 | Fool Quality | 06/19/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/19/1791 | Aesculus | 06/20/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/20/1791 | Love & Madness | 06/21/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/21/1791 | Ethelinde | 06/23/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/23/1791 | Fool Quality | 4 | 06/24/1791 | 150 | |||
| 06/25/1791 | New York Mag. | 06/29/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 06/29/1791 | Col. Mag. | 2 | 07/05/1791 | 150 | |||
| 07/05/1791 | Cooks Voyage | 07/14/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 07/14/1791 | " | 07/18/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 07/18/1791 | " | 07/23/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 07/23/1791 | Emmeline | 1 | 07/23/1791 | 150 | |||
| 07/23/1791 | Juv. Indiscretions | 1 | 07/26/1791 | 150 | |||
| 07/26/1791 | Female Stability | 1 | 07/28/1791 | 150 | |||
| 07/28/1791 | " | 2 | 07/30/1791 | 150 | |||
| 07/30/1791 | Juv. Indiscretions | 2 | 07/31/1791 | 150 | |||
| 08/01/1791 | Cleggs Memoirs | 150 | |||||
| 08/04/1791 | George Matiland | 2 | 08/05/1791 | 150 | |||
| 08/05/1791 | " | 08/08/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 08/08/1791 | Litt. Mag | 2 | 08/10/1791 | 150 | |||
| 08/10/1791 | No. 447 | 08/15/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 08/15/1791 | Bruce | 5 | 08/22/1791 | 150 | |||
| 08/22/1791 | Bellamy | 1 | 08/23/1791 | 150 | |||
| 08/23/1791 | Fair Hibernian | 08/24/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 08/24/1791 | Idler | 1 | 08/25/1791 | 150 | |||
| 08/25/1791 | Goldsmith's An. Nature | 1 | 08/29/1791 | 150 | |||
| 08/29/1791 | " | 2 | 09/01/1791 | 150 | |||
| 09/01/1791 | " | 3 | 09/06/1791 | 150 | |||
| 09/06/1791 | Emmeline | 2 | 09/08/1791 | 150 | |||
| 09/08/1791 | Independent | 09/16/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 09/16/1791 | Greville | 1 | 09/21/1791 | 150 | |||
| 09/21/1791 | Norman Tales | 09/23/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 09/23/1791 | Greville | 2 | 09/26/1791 | 150 | |||
| 09/26/1791 | Rabelais | 09/27/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 09/27/1791 | Edwy & Edilda | 09/28/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 09/28/1791 | Delia | 1 | 10/03/1791 | 150 | |||
| 10/03/1791 | " | 2 | 10/05/1791 | 150 | |||
| 10/05/1791 | Cit World | 1 | 10/10/1791 | 150 | |||
| 10/10/1791 | Female Stability | 4 | 10/10/1791 | 150 | |||
| 10/10/1791 | Sutton Abbey | 10/19/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 10/19/1791 | Diversities of Fortune | 1 | 10/21/1791 | 150 | |||
| 10/21/1791 | " | 2 | 10/24/1791 | 150 | |||
| 10/24/1791 | Country Maid | 1 | 10/26/1791 | 150 | |||
| 10/26/1791 | Edwin & Anna | 10/29/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 10/29/1791 | Emma Melcombe | 11/01/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 11/01/1791 | Prince Eugene | 11/05/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 11/05/1791 | Diversities of Fortune | 1 | 11/07/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/07/1791 | " | 2 | 11/10/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/10/1791 | Retribution | 1 | 11/11/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/11/1791 | Castle Mowbray | 11/14/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 11/14/1791 | Julia | 11/19/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 11/18/1791 | Errors Nature | 11/19/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 11/19/1791 | Myrtle | 1 | 11/21/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/21/1791 | Phebe | 1 | 11/22/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/22/1791 | " | 2 | 11/23/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/23/1791 | Ethelwolff | 1 | 11/28/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/28/1791 | Reverie | 1 | 11/29/1791 | 150 | |||
| 11/29/1791 | Ethelwolf | 2 | 12/01/1791 | 150 | |||
| 12/01/1791 | Consett's Tour | 12/06/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 12/01/1791 | Tales Imagination | 12/03/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 12/03/1791 | Castle Mowbray | 12/06/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 12/07/1791 | Chinese traveller | 1 | 12/14/1791 | 150 | |||
| 12/07/1791 | Simple Story | 1 | 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 | |||
| 12/19/1791 | Sylph | 12/23/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 12/19/1791 | Hartly House | 12/23/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 12/23/1791 | Johnson's Anecdotes | 12/27/1791 | 150 | ||||
| 12/24/1791 | Jon. of Gaunt | 2 | 12/27/1791 | 150 | |||
| 12/27/1791 | Fable bees | 2 | 12/30/1791 | 150 | |||
| 12/27/1791 | Newtonian Philo. | 1 | 01/03/1792 | 150 | |||
| 12/30/1791 | Simpson's Euclid | 01/04/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 01/04/1792 | Grandison | 2 | 01/06/1792 | 150 | |||
| 01/04/1792 | Classics | 2 | 01/11/1792 | 150 | |||
| 01/06/1792 | Grandison | 3 | 01/07/1792 | 150 | |||
| 01/07/1792 | Table talk | 01/20/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 01/11/1792 | Spelman's Xenophon | 1 | 01/12/1792 | 150 | |||
| 01/12/1792 | Art of Torments | 01/16/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 01/16/1792 | Friar Gerund | 01/21/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 01/21/1792 | Harrison Cleese | 2 | 01/25/1792 | 150 | |||
| 01/21/1792 | Lexephanies | 01/23/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 01/23/1792 | Poetical Mag. | 2 | 01/26/1792 | 150 | |||
| 01/26/1792 | " | 01/30/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 01/30/1792 | " | 4 | 02/02/1792 | 150 | |||
| 01/30/1792 | Bateman | 02/03/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/02/1792 | Emma | 1 | 02/03/1792 | 150 | |||
| 02/03/1792 | Bateman | 2 | 02/03/1792 | 150 | |||
| 02/03/1792 | Clement Letter | 02/07/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/06/1792 | Life Voltaire | 02/16/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/07/1792 | Lady Mag. | 02/16/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/16/1792 | Lady Lib. | 02/20/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/16/1792 | " Ency. | 3 | 02/17/1792 | 150 | |||
| 02/18/1792 | Parke/Paxter Misc | 02/20/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/20/1792 | Classics | 7 | 02/23/1792 | 150 | |||
| 02/20/1792 | Farces | 1 | 02/23/1792 | 150 | |||
| 02/23/1792 | George play | 02/28/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/23/1792 | Farces | 4 | 02/27/1792 | 150 | |||
| 02/27/1792 | School for W. | 03/02/1792 | 150 | ||||
| 02/28/1792 | Lt. Mag | 1 | 03/06/1792 | 150 | |||
| 03/02/1792 | Lit. Mag | 2 | 03/06/1792 | 150 | |||
| 03/06/1792 | " | 3 | 03/12/1792 | 150 | |||
| 03/06/1792 | " | 4 | 03/12/1792 | 150 | |||
| 03/12/1792 | Ed. Mortimer | 03/13/1792 | 142 | ||||
| 03/12/1792 | Lamberts works | 1 | 03/15/1792 | 142 | |||
| 03/13/1792 | Senti. Beauties | 03/24/1792 | 142 | ||||
| 03/15/1792 | Goldsmith Beauties | 03/19/1792 | 142 | ||||
| 03/19/1792 | Par. Solicitude | 03/24/1792 | 142 | ||||
| 03/24/1792 | Johnson | 23 | 03/29/1792 | 142 | |||
| 03/24/1792 | " | 29 | 03/29/1792 | 142 | |||
| 03/29/1792 | " | 152 | 03/31/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/02/1792 | Gustavus Vasa | 04/21/1792 | 5d | 142 | |||
| 04/08/1792 | Savage | 2 | 04/10/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/10/1792 | Voltaire | 37 | 04/12/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/12/1792 | Field | 8 | 04/17/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/17/1792 | Bee | 3 | 04/21/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/21/1792 | " | 6&4 | 04/25/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/25/1792 | Johnson | 30&31 | 04/28/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/28/1792 | Recess | 1 | 05/05/1792 | 142 | |||
| 04/28/1792 | Johnson | 25 | 05/05/1792 | 142 |
