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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T010838 London : printed for D. Wilson and G. Nicol, 1767. 8,48p. ; 8°
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John Harvie was born in 1742 in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, the son of Colonel John Harvie and Martha Gaines. John Harvie the elder (with whom his son is sometimes confused) was born in Gargunnock, Scotland, but settled about forty years before the Revolution in Albemarle County, where among other distinctions that came to him was the guardianship of young Thomas Jefferson.
Harvie read law and was admitted to the bar before settling in Augusta County.
John Harvie engaged in the practice of law in his native county, attaining a high degree of success. At the outbreak of the Revolution he took an active part in raising troops and in 1776 was made colonel of Virginia militia. Meanwhile he was a delegate for Augusta and West Augusta counties, respectively, in the Virginia conventions of 1775 and 1776 and in the latter convention was one of the committee designated to prepare a declaration of rights and form of government. In these conventions also he had an important share in the Proceedings relative to Indian affairs, and this fact led to his appointment by the Continental Congress as one of the commissioners for Indian affairs in the middle department. In conjunction with his fellow commissioners, Dr. Thomas Walker, John Montgomery, and Jasper Yeates, he conducted delicate negotiations with the Indians at port Pitt during the summer and autumn of that year.
Being elected to the Cintinental Congress, Harvie became a member of the board of war, the committee on appeals, the marine committee, and the committee of commerce and was on most of the committees having to do with provisioning the army. One of his most important services was as a member of the committee sent to headquarters in January 1778 to concert with the commander-in-chief a reorganization of the army and a reform of abuses in the departments of supply. That committee presently ran amuck, but Harvie had already parted from it, apparently in disagreement. Though again elected to Congress in May 1778, he withdrew in October, “for good, ” he hoped. Congressional politics evidently did not appeal to him. Besides, business, for which he had eminent qualities, was already beckoning to him.
Harvie became purchasing agent for Virginia; then, in 1780, register of the land office for many years, and in the interval, 1785-1786, mayor of Richmond; but it was chiefly as an enterprising builder and public-spirited citizen that Richmond knew him in his later years. His death, which took place at his home, “Belvidere, " near Richmond, was in consequence of injuries received from a fall while inspecting the construction of what was afterward known as the Gamble House.
John Harvie was famous as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and 1778, where he took part in the dual debates and signed the Articles of Confederation. In Congress he was very apt to be found with the minority (he was one of two to vote against the notorious resolution suspending the embarkation of Burgoyne).
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Harvie was married to Margaret, daughter of Gabriel Jones.
