The Religious Courtship: Being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only: as also, of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with an appendix of the necessity of taking none but religious servants: and, a proposal for

This "third American" edition, "from the 23rd London edition" (1737) was published in Vermont in 1810. Opposite the title page is an inscription "The property of Susanna Day [of] Winchendon [Massachusetts]" This edition distinguished by "The" in title; copies at Yale and University of Vermont.

Derick Sibley at the time was the publisher of the Freeman's Press newspaper in Montpelier (1809-1812)

From Classic Encyclopaedia: "During the years from 1715 to 1728 Defoe had issued pamphlets and minor works too numerous to mention. The only one of them perhaps which requires notice is Religious Courtship (1722), a curious series of dialogues displaying Defoe's unaffected religiosity, and at the same time the rather meddling intrusiveness with which he applied his religious notions."

Pages 21-22 torn

Missing pages 175-76, 227-28, 229-40, 241-42, 301-02, 303-04