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Peter Wilson
Biography
Peter Wilson (1746-1825) was an American statesman and scholar who was born in Scotland and graduated from the University of Aberdeen. He arrived in the colonies in 1786 and attended Brown University and Union College. He served as the Bergen County representative in the New Jersey Assembly from 1777 to 1781, and again in 1787. Wilson was a professor of Greek and Latin at King's College, now Columbia University, from 1789 to 1792.
Local Note
Peter Wilson was a trustee of the New York Society Library from 1798 to 1814.
Mentioned
- Keep, Austin Baxter. History of the New York Society Library, pp. 176, 236, 246, 304, 307-8
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/11/1789 | Potter's Antiquities | 1 | 8vo. | 10/02/1789 | Self | 016 | |
| 10/14/1789 | Gordon's Tacitus | 4 | 12mo. | 11/02/1789 | 026 | ||
| 11/02/1789 | Gordon's Tacitus | 1 | 12mo. | 11/13/1789 | 031 | ||
| 11/13/1789 | Knox's Essays | 1 | 12mo. | 11/27/1789 | 034 | ||
| 05/20/1790 | Rollins An. Hist. | 1 | 8vo. | 06/11/1790 | 268 | ||
| 06/11/1790 | " con | " | " | 06/28/1790 | 268 | ||
| 07/09/1790 | Addison's state of the Jews | 12vo | 07/16/1790 | 268 | |||
| 07/16/1790 | " con | " | " | 07/17/1790 | 268 | ||
| 07/17/1790 | 5 Indian Nations | 07/30/1790 | 268 | ||||
| 07/30/1790 | " | 1 | 08/19/1790 | 268 | |||
| 08/19/1790 | Whalley's Ben Johnson | 8vo. | 08/26/1790 | 268 | |||
| 08/26/1790 | Adam's Defence | 1 | 8vo. | 09/04/1790 | 268 | ||
| 09/04/1790 | " con | " | " | 09/14/1790 | 268 | ||
| 09/14/1790 | " con | " | " | 09/30/1790 | 268 | ||
| 09/30/1790 | " | 2 | " | 10/19/1790 | 268 | ||
| 10/19/1790 | " con | " | " | 10/22/1790 | 268 | ||
| 10/22/1790 | Gillies' Greece | 1 | 8vo. | 11/03/1790 | 268 | ||
| 11/03/1790 | " con | " | " | 11/24/1790 | 268 | ||
| 11/24/1790 | " | 2 | " | 12/14/1790 | 268 | ||
| 12/14/1790 | " | 3 | " | 12/27/1790 | 268 | ||
| 12/27/1790 | Moore's France | 1 | 12vo | 01/05/1791 | 268 | ||
| 01/05/1791 | Moore's Italy | 2 | " | 01/20/1791 | 268 | ||
| 01/20/1791 | " con | " | " | 02/03/1791 | 268 | ||
| 02/03/1791 | Johnson's Poets | 22 | 12vo | 02/09/1791 | 268 | ||
| 02/09/1791 | Lambert's Observations | 1 | 02/26/1791 | 268 | |||
| 02/26/1791 | " con | " | 02/26/1791 | 268 | |||
| 02/26/1791 | [illeg.] | 1 | 02/28/1791 | 268 | |||
| 03/01/1791 | Lambert's Observations | 1 | 03/14/1791 | 268 | |||
| 03/14/1791 | Ferguson on civil society | 8vo. | 04/01/1791 | 268 | |||
| 04/01/1791 | King Prussia Johnson | 4 | 04/09/1791 | 268 | |||
| 04/09/1791 | " | 6 | 04/12/1791 | 268 | |||
| 04/12/1791 | " | 9 | 04/20/1791 | 268 | |||
| 04/20/1791 | " | 11 | 04/29/1791 | 268 | |||
| 04/29/1791 | " | 13 | 05/06/1791 | 268 | |||
| 06/23/1791 | Origin of Laws | 1 | 07/11/1791 | 268 | |||
| 07/11/1791 | Robins' Mat. Tracts | 1 | 8vo. | 07/23/1791 | 268 | ||
| 07/23/1791 | Anacharis's Travels | 07/28/1791 | 268 | ||||
| 07/28/1791 | London Magazine | 37 | 08/06/1791 | 268 | |||
| 08/23/1791 | Origin of Laws | 1 | 09/03/1791 | 268 | |||
| 09/03/1791 | Hume | 1 | 09/24/1791 | 268 | |||
| 09/24/1791 | Origin of Laws | 1 | 10/09/1791 | 268 | |||
| 10/07/1791 | Turnbull's Moral Philo. | 1 | 8vo. | 10/25/1791 | 268 | ||
| 10/25/1791 | " con | " | " | 10/29/1791 | 268 | ||
| 10/29/1791 | Mod. Europe | 1 | 8vo. | 11/23/1791 | 1s/1p | 268 | |
| 11/23/1791 | Origin of Laws | 3 | 12/10/1791 | 268 | |||
| 12/10/1791 | " con | " | 12/24/1791 | 268 | |||
| 12/24/1791 | Hume | 1 | 12/31/1791 | 268 | |||
| 12/31/1791 | Bruce | 1 | 8vo. | 01/31/1792 | 9p | 268 | |
| 01/31/1792 | " con | " | " | 02/20/1792 | 268 | ||
| 02/20/1792 | " | 2 | " | 03/03/1792 | 268 | ||
| 03/03/1792 | " | 3 | " | 03/09/1792 | 268 | ||
| 03/09/1792 | Young's Works | 1 | " | 03/13/1792 | 268 | ||
| 03/13/1792 | Bruce | 3 | " | 04/06/1792 | 268 | ||
| 04/06/1792 | " | 4 | " | 04/30/1792 | 268 | ||
| 04/30/1792 | Philips' 2nd | 1 | 12vo | 05/01/1792 | 268 |
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