Oswald, Richard, 1705-1784
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found: Answers for Richard Oswald of Auchincruive, 1775.
found: Memorandum on the folly of invading Virginia 1953:t.p. (Richard Oswald)
found: DNB(under: Oswald, Richard, 1705-1784; born in Scotland; for many years engaged in business in America; afterwards settled as a merchant at Philpot Lane in London; in 1759 purchased the estate of Auchincruive in Ayrshire; in 1781 he gave bail to Henry Laurens when he was imprisoned in the Tower; negotiated the peace with the Americans, and signed the preliminary articles of peace at Paris Nov. 30, 1782; d. at Auchincruive Nov. 6, 1784)
found: OCLC, 6/14/95:(hdg.: Oswald, Richard, 1705-1784; usage: Richard Oswald)
found: Journal of backcountry studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2014, viewed Oct. 9, 2014article entitled: Richard Oswald as "An American": How a Frontier South Carolina Plantation Identifies the Anonymous Author of American Husbandry and a Forgotten Founder of the United States) pdf page 1 (Richard Oswald; A writer using the nom de plume of “An American” first reviewed in print the potential for the agriculture in Britain's New World possessions in the two-volume American Husbandry Containing an Account of the Soil, Climate, Production and Agriculture of the British Colonies in North America and the West Indies, published by J. Bew, Pater-noster-Row, London in 1775) - http://www.partnershipsjournal.org/index.php/jbc/article/view/935/579 notfound: 18th-cent. British books an author union cat.
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1988-01-05: new
2014-10-09: revised
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