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While searching for newspaper articles about Shackfords in early newspapers, we ran across multiple references to a book called “Shackford’s Connections” which appears to have been published in three volumes. We’re not sure who was the author and after some research believe it was most likely published in 1728 as it was listed in the Bibliotheca Curiosa & Elegans: A Catalogue of Near Twelve Thousand Volumes.. Which Will be Sold on Tuesday, August 1, 1758.
The book is also used as a source to a section about St. Jerome in Thomas Stackhouse’s 1787 “An History of the Holy Bible: From the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity: with Answers to Most of the Controverted Questions, Dissertations Upon the Most Remarkable Passages, and a Connection of Profane History Throughout.
An article published in the Vermont Intelligencer on Sept 28, 1818 stated that a Mrs. Susanna Rowson who was working on a complete History of the Bible used this book as one of many authorities for her book – other authorities included stackhouse’s History of the Bible, Poole’s Annotations, Calmet’s Dictionary, and dissertations.
Also in 1846 and 1847, a J. Creath, Jr posted an article in the newspaper that stated that he lost a copy of the first volume of Shackford’s Connection while traveling between St Louis and Marion City.
We can’t find any copies of this book in the digitized book collections that we often use for research — Library of Congress, WorldCat, Hathi Trust, Project Gutenberg, FamilySearch Books, or Google Books although we did find a reference to the book that says that on May 17, 1837, the Michigan State Librarian purchased a copy of the book Shackford’s Connections, 2 vols from Collins, Keese & Co for $4.50. We did look at the Library of Michigan’s website but don’t find any reference to this book however the library does have a Rare Book Room – we’ll be giving them a call to see if they still have this copy of the book.
We also discovered that in July 29, 1843, The Athenaeum include an article stating that James Taylor & Co in Brighton was selling a copy of Shackford’s Connection of Sacred and Profane History, 4 vol and in 1852, the Oregon Territorial Librarian included their copy of Shackford’s Connections in a list of books they owned.
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Books on Sale, by James Taylor & Co, 22 Pavilion-street, Brighton. The Athenaeum Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, London, Saturday, July 29, 1843, p. 682
Documents accompanying the Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan at the Annual Session in 1838, Detroit, John S. Bagg, State Printer, 1838, p 379-380, https://babel.hathitrust.org/
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Territory of Oregon, Being the Third Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly, Begun and Held at Salem, December 1, 1851. In the Seventy-Sixth Year of the Independence of the U.S., Oregon; Asahel Bush, Territorial Printer, 1852, Appendix page 10
Nasan, Elias, A Memoir of Mrs. Susanna Rowson, with Elegant and Illustrative Extracts From her Writings in Prose and Poetry, Albany, N.Y., Joel Munsell, 1870
NOTICE, The Weekly Courier Post, 24 Dec 1846, newspapers.com
Mrs. Rowson nearly ready to publish History of the Bible, Vermont Intelligencer, 28 Sept 1818
Stackhouse, Thomas, An History of the Holy Bible: From the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity: with Answers to Most of the Controverted Questions, Dissertations Upon the Most Remarkable Passages, and a Connection of Profane History Throughout, London, L Garner, 1787, p 21 968 pages
Whiston John and Benjamin White, Bibliotheca Curiosa & Elegans: A Catalogue of Near Twelve Thousand Volumes, in All Arts, Sciences, and [every] Branch of Polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, …Including the Libraries of the Revd. Williams Gibbon, … and John Hand,… Which Will be Sold…on Tuesday, August 1, 1758. 1758, 188 pages
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