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Title: The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland
In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and
Constitutions of the Country

Author: Ebenezer Cook

Release Date: May 7, 2007 [EBook #21346]

Language: English

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_S H E A' S_

_EARLY SOUTHERN TRACTS._

_No. II._

THE

Sot-weed Factor:

Or, a Voyage to

MARYLAND.

A

SATYR.

In which is describ'd

The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also
the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of
the Inhabitants of that Part of _America_.

In Burlesque Verse.

By _Eben. Cook_, Gent.

LONDON:

Printed and Sold by _D. Bragg_, at the _Raven_ in _Pater-Noster-Row_.
1708. (Price 6d.)

We have no means of knowing the history of Master "Ebenezer Cook,
Gentleman," who, one hundred and forty-six years ago, produced the
Sot-Weed Factor's Voyage to Maryland. He wrote, printed, published, and
sold it in London for sixpence sterling, and then disappeared forever.
We do not know certainly that Mr. Cook himself was the actual adventurer
who suffered the ills describe