Background
Pelatiah Webster was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, the eldest son of Pelatiah and Joanna (Crowfoot) Smith Webster, and a descendant of John Webster, one of the first settlers of Hartford.
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A dissertation on the political union and constitution of the thirteen United States, of North-America: which is necessary to their preservation and ... to the public, by a citizen of Philadelphia.
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A seventh essay on free trade and finance; in which the expediency of funding the public securities, striking further sums of paper money, and other ... are considered. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
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An essay on credit, in which the doctrine of banks is considered, and some remarks are made on the present state of the Bank of North-America. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
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A fifth essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
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Political Essays On the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects
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Pelatiah Webster
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After graduation from Yale College in 1746, he studied theology.
Career
In June 1749 began to preach in Greenwich, Massachussets, where on December 20 he was ordained pastor. In October 1755 Webster left his parish to become a merchant in Philadelphia, and later while maintaining his business, taught for a time in Germantown Academy. In 1765 he visited Charleston, S. C. , recording his impressions in a journal. On the outbreak of the Revolution his business suffered, and in April 1777, with a cargo of flour and iron bound for Boston, he was seized by the British and held prisoner in Newport for several weeks. The next year he was confined for sometime in the Philadelphia jail and much of his property was confiscated, though later all but about 500 was recovered. Beginning on October 5, 1776, with a letter, in the Pennsylvania Evening Post on "the Danger of too much Circulating Cash, " he published a succession of studies signed either "A Financier" or "A Citizen of Philadelphia" which were later collected in a volume entitled Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects; Published during the American War (1791). He argued in favor of the support of the war by taxation rather than by loans, a free trade policy, and the curtailment of paper money issues. During the struggle in Pennsylvania over the adoption of the Constitution he published Remarks on the Address of Sixteen Members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania to their Constituents dated September 29, 1787 (1787), in which he cogently demonstrated the specious nature of the objections to the new plan of government, and about the same time he also published The Weakness of Brutus Exposed: or, Some Remarks in Vindication of the Constitution Proposed by the Late Federal Convention against the Objections and Gloomy Fears of That Writer (1787), in which he maintained the need for a government with supreme power, "full, definite, established, acknowledged. " His faith in a stronger union he had expressed four years before in A Dissertation on the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North-America (1783), the pamphlet on which Hannis Taylor in the twentieth century rested his claim that Webster was the real author of the Constitution. These exaggerated claims made by Taylor on behalf of Webster have obscured his genuine share in educating the people to the need of a new form of government and his aid in bringing about the adoption of the Constitution, and have also diverted attention from the writings in which he expressed clear and vigorous views on money, credit, taxation, and trade.
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A dissertation on the political union and constitution of the thirteen United States, of North-America: which is necessary to their preservation and ... to the public, by a citizen of Philadelphia.
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
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A seventh essay on free trade and finance; in which the expediency of funding the public securities, striking further sums of paper money, and other ... are considered. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
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An essay on credit, in which the doctrine of banks is considered, and some remarks are made on the present state of the Bank of North-America. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
( The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration...)
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A fifth essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
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Political Essays On the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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A dissertation on the political union and constitution of the thirteen United States, of North-America: which is necessary to their preservation and ... to the public, by a citizen of Philadelphia.
Connections
He married Mrs. Ruth Kellogg of Suffield, Connecticut, in September 1750 and they had four daughters and a son. His second wife, Rebecca Hunt, whom he married in Boston on October 8, 1785, died in Philadelphia in 1793.
