Mathew Carey

Contributions

1. Letters from an American farmer describing certain provincial situations, manners and customs, and conveying some idea of the state of the people of North America translation publisher
2. Oaths translation publisher
3. Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind, being a posthumous work of the late M. de Condorcet. Translated from the French translation publisher
4. Rights of man translation publisher
5. The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine publisher
6. The school of wisdom, or, American monitor. Containing a copious collection of sublime and elegant extracts, from the most eminent writers, on morals, religion & government publisher

Knows

• John Adams diplomat politician writer
• Patrick Byrne pamphleteer publisher
• John Chambers publisher
• Richard Folwell bookseller publisher
• Benjamin Franklin freemason politician publisher writer
• Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette freemason military politician
• Richard Price cleric philosopher translator writer

Notes

Irish critic of the British government who worked for Benjamin Franklin during his stay in Paris. After fleeing from Ireland to the US in 1784, he set up a printing shop with the financial help of Lafayette. He published on social and political issues. He imported books published by the Dublin publisher Patrick Byrne into the US.

https://www.dib.ie/biography/carey-mathew-a1474.