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Selah Strong
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Selah Strong (1737-1815) married Anna Smith, daughter of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the colony of New York in 1760. He served in the American Revolution as a captain, fought in the Battle of Long Island, and was captured and held on a Jersey prison ship. He was the first judge of the Court of Common Pleas, a senator from 1792 to 1800, and treasurer of Suffolk County from 1786 to 1802.
Mentioned
- Keep, Austin Baxter. History of the New York Society Library, pp. 268
- 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.
| Date Out | Text | Vol | Size | Date In | Rep | Fines | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/06/1791 | An. Register | 86 | 8vo. | 10/15/1791 | 227 | ||
| 10/15/1791 | " | 77 | " | 10/22/1791 | 227 | ||
| 10/22/1791 | Mosheim's Ecclesiastical Hist. | 4 | " | 11/11/1791 | 227 | ||
| 11/11/1791 | " | 5 | " | 11/24/1791 | 227 | ||
| 11/24/1791 | " | 6 | " | 11/29/1791 | 227 | ||
| 11/29/1791 | Burke | " | 12/10/1791 | 227 | |||
| 12/10/1791 | An. Register | 1787 | " | 12/29/1791 | 227 | ||
| 12/31/1791 | " | 1787 | " | 01/14/1792 | 227 | ||
| 01/14/1792 | " con | " | " | 01/24/1792 | 227 | ||
| 01/24/1792 | " | 88 | " | 01/31/1792 | 227 | ||
| 01/31/1792 | Domestic Memoirs | 1 | 12mo. | 02/01/1792 | 227 | ||
| 02/03/1792 | " | 2 | " | 02/15/1792 | 227 | ||
| 02/15/1792 | Tour in Holland | 8vo. | 02/20/1792 | 227 | |||
| 02/20/1792 | Grand Tour | 1 | 12mo. | 02/23/1792 | 227 | ||
| 02/23/1792 | Evelina | 2 | " | 02/25/1792 | 227 | ||
| 02/25/1792 | Bellamy | 1 | " | 03/05/1792 | 227 | ||
| 03/05/1792 | " | 3 | " | 03/06/1792 | 6p | 227 | |
| 03/06/1792 | Shakespeare | 8 | " | 03/10/1792 | 227 | ||
| 03/10/1792 | Tower's Fred'k | 1 | 8vo. | 03/19/1792 | 227 | ||
| 03/19/1792 | " | 2 | " | 03/26/1792 | 227 | ||
| 03/26/1792 | Every man his own broker | 12mo. | 03/29/1792 | 227 | |||
| 03/29/1792 | Sterne | 1 | " | 03/30/1792 | 227 | ||
| 03/30/1792 | " | 2 | " | 04/04/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/04/1792 | " | 5 | " | 04/05/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/05/1792 | " | 9 | " | 04/07/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/07/1792 | Arabian Nights | 1 | " | 04/10/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/10/1792 | Father's Instruction | 1 | " | 04/10/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/11/1792 | " | 2 | " | 04/12/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/12/1792 | Clarissa | 1 | " | 04/17/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/17/1792 | Sterne | 3 | " | 04/20/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/20/1792 | " | 4 | " | 04/25/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/25/1792 | " | 10 | " | 04/30/1792 | 227 | ||
| 04/30/1792 | Clarissa | 5 | " | 05/01/1792 | 227 |
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