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Census Directory For 1811. Containing the Names, Occupations, & residence of the Inhabitants of the City, Southwark & Northern Liberties, a Separate Division being Allotted to Persons of Colour.
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken 1811. 484, [2] pp., 12mo (135 x 75 mm). Library buckram. Condition : minor foxing. Provenance : D. D. Lewis? (contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper, noting that he has sold this copy of the Census Directory for $1 to Mr. Moffit). Among the earliest directories with a separate listing of the city’s African American residents. Aitken’s ad on the terminal leaf offers for sale Charles Thomson’s translation of the Bible. Blockson 2562; Spear, p. 277.