Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Samuel Sewall” in chapter 13, page 317 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
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1640. (The first book printed in America.)
1647. Nathaniel Ward's .
1650. Anne Bradstreet's .
1662. Michael Wigglesworth's .
1664. New Amsterdam became New York.
1673-1729. Samuel Sewall 's .
1675. King Philip's War.
1682. Philadelphia founded by Penn.
1689. Cotton Mather's
1702. Cotton Mather's
1706. Franklin born.
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