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John Greenwood (5/17/1760 - 12/16/1819)

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Dr. John Greenwood (May 17, 1760 – November 16, 1819) was an American fifer and dentist, serving as George Washington's personal dentist. He was responsible for designing Washington's famous dentures, which were not wood but carved from hippopotamus tusk. He invented the first known "dental foot engine" in 1790.

Greenwood served as a fifer during the American Revolutionary War at sixteen years of age. He served twenty months in Captain Theodore Bliss's company of the 26th Massachusetts Regiment, playing the fife in the Continental Army from 1775 to 1778. He was the grandson of Isaac Greenwood, a mathematics professor at Harvard, and son of Isaac Greenwood, the first native-born American dentist.

A letter from John Greenwood to Lt. General George Washington on his denture charges, dated 1799, is in the A.D. Black History of Dentistry Collection at Northwestern University.

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The lady’s encyclopedia
Transcribed: Lady's Encyclopaedia		John SeallyVolume 18/3/17898/10/1789girl
The history of the progress and termination of the Roman Republic. By Adam Ferguson, LL. D. F. R. S. E. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh; Member of the Royal Academy at Berlin, of the Royal Academy at Florence, of the Etruscan Society of Antiquaries at Cortona, and of the Arcadia at Rome.
Transcribed: Ferguson's Rom Histy.		Adam FergusonVolume 18/10/17898/14/1789C. Greenwood
Anna; or memoirs of a Welch heiress. Interspersed with anecdotes of a nabob. In two volumes. ..
Transcribed: Anna		Anna Maria BennettVolume 18/17/17898/19/1789child
Anna; or memoirs of a Welch heiress. Interspersed with anecdotes of a nabob. In two volumes. ..
Transcribed: Anna		Anna Maria Bennett8/19/17898/21/1789
Louisa; or the cottage on the moor. In two volumes. By Mrs. Helme.
Transcribed: Louisa		Elizabeth Helme8/21/17898/24/1789
The beauties of magazines, reviews, &c.
Transcribed: Beauties of Magazines		Volume 18/24/17898/26/1789
Louisa; or the cottage on the moor. In two volumes. By Mrs. Helme.
Transcribed: Louisa		Elizabeth Helme8/28/17898/31/1789
Clarissa. Or, the history of a young lady
Transcribed: Clarissa		Samuel RichardsonVolume 18/28/17898/28/1789
The works of J. J. Rousseau. Translated from the French. In ten volumes. ..
Transcribed: Rosseau		Jean-Jacques RousseauVolume 18/31/17899/4/1789
The works of J. J. Rousseau. Translated from the French. In ten volumes. ..
Transcribed: Rousseau		Jean-Jacques RousseauVolume 29/4/17899/9/1789
The works of J. J. Rousseau. Translated from the French. In ten volumes. ..
Transcribed: Rosseau		Jean-Jacques RousseauVolume 49/9/17899/11/1789
A view of society and manners in Italy
Transcribed: Moore's Italy		John MooreVolume 19/14/17899/18/1789Self
A view of society and manners in Italy
Transcribed: Moore's Italy		John MooreVolume 29/18/17899/25/1789
The history of Lady Julia Mandeville. In two volumes. By the translator of Lady Catesby’s letters. ...
Transcribed: Julia Mandeville		Frances Moore Brooke9/25/17899/28/1789
Emilia de St. Aubigne
Transcribed: Emilia		Mrs. Burke9/28/17899/30/1789
The marriage act. A novel. In which the ruin of female honour, the contempt of the clergy, the destruction of private and public liberty, with other fatal consequences, are considered; in a series of interesting adventures.
Transcribed: Marriage Act		John ShebbeareVolume 19/30/178910/5/1789
The marriage act. A novel. In which the ruin of female honour, the contempt of the clergy, the destruction of private and public liberty, with other fatal consequences, are considered; in a series of interesting adventures.
Transcribed: Marriage Act		John ShebbeareVolume 210/5/178910/7/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 110/7/178910/9/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 210/9/178910/12/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 310/12/178910/14/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 410/14/178910/16/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 610/16/178910/19/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 110/21/178910/23/1789
Arpasia; or, the wanderer. A novel. By the author of The nabob. In two volumes.
Transcribed: Arpasia		Richard ClarkeVolume 110/23/178910/25/1789
History of the conspiracy, or negro plot in New-York
Transcribed: Negro Plott		10/26/178910/30/1789
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: Don Quixote		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 110/30/178911/2/1789
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: Don Quixote		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 211/2/178911/7/1789
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: Don Quixote		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 311/4/178911/9/1789
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: Don Quixote		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 411/9/178911/13/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 611/13/178911/16/1789
The Algerine spy in Pennsylvania, or, Letters written by a native of Algiers on the affairs of the United States of America, from the close of the year 1783 to the meeting of the Convention.
Transcribed: Spy		Peter Markoe11/16/178911/20/1789
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In seven volumes.
Transcribed: Grandison		Samuel RichardsonVolume 711/16/178911/18/1789
The Algerine spy in Pennsylvania, or, Letters written by a native of Algiers on the affairs of the United States of America, from the close of the year 1783 to the meeting of the Convention.
Transcribed: Spy		Peter Markoe11/18/178911/20/1789
The works of Henry Fielding, Esq;
Transcribed: Fieldings Works		Henry FieldingVolume 111/20/178911/23/1789
The works of Henry Fielding, Esq;
Transcribed: Fielding's Works		Henry FieldingVolume 111/20/178911/23/1789
The works of Henry Fielding, Esq;
Transcribed: "		Henry FieldingVolume 311/23/178911/27/1789
The works of Henry Fielding, Esq;
Transcribed: "		Henry FieldingVolume 211/27/178912/7/1789
The history of the progress and termination of the Roman Republic. By Adam Ferguson, LL. D. F. R. S. E. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh; Member of the Royal Academy at Berlin, of the Royal Academy at Florence, of the Etruscan Society of Antiquaries at Cortona, and of the Arcadia at Rome.
Transcribed: Fergusons Roman History		Adam FergusonVolume 112/7/178912/21/1789
The history of the progress and termination of the Roman Republic. By Adam Ferguson, LL. D. F. R. S. E. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh; Member of the Royal Academy at Berlin, of the Royal Academy at Florence, of the Etruscan Society of Antiquaries at Cortona, and of the Arcadia at Rome.
Transcribed: "		Adam FergusonVolume 212/21/178912/28/1789
The works of Henry Fielding, Esq;
Transcribed: Fieldings Works		Henry FieldingVolume 412/30/17891/4/1790
The works of Henry Fielding, Esq;
Transcribed: "		Henry FieldingVolume 51/4/17901/6/1790
Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies. Containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries. And embelished with above 320 copper plates, representing the finest prospects, and most considerable cities in those parts; the different habits of the people; the singular and extraordinary birds, fishes, and plants which are there to be found
Transcribed: LeBruyns Travels		Cornelis de BruynVolume 11/6/17901/18/1790
Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies. Containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries. And embelished with above 320 copper plates, representing the finest prospects, and most considerable cities in those parts; the different habits of the people; the singular and extraordinary birds, fishes, and plants which are there to be found
Transcribed: "		Cornelis de BruynVolume 21/18/17901/21/1790
The Dean of Coleraine. A moral history
Transcribed: Dean of Coleraine		Abbé PrévostVolume 11/21/17901/29/1790
Magnalia Christi americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of our Lord, 1698. In seven books / by the Reverend and learned Cotton Mather.
Transcribed: Cotton Mathers Works		Cotton Mather1/29/17902/3/1790
The Dean of Coleraine. A moral history
Transcribed: Dean of Coleraine		Abbé PrévostVolume 22/3/17902/8/1790
The Dean of Coleraine. A moral history
Transcribed: "		Abbé PrévostVolume 32/8/17902/10/1790
The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. In two volumes. Translated into English from the original Spanish of Don Antonio de Solis, ... by Thomas Townsend, Esq; ... The whole translation revised and corrected by Nathanael Hooke, ...
Transcribed: Conquest of Mexico		Antonio de Solís y RibadeneyraVolume 12/10/17902/15/1790
The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. In two volumes. Translated into English from the original Spanish of Don Antonio de Solis, ... by Thomas Townsend, Esq; ... The whole translation revised and corrected by Nathanael Hooke, ...
Transcribed: "		Antonio de Solís y RibadeneyraVolume 22/15/17902/22/1790
Emmeline, the orphan of the castle. By Charlotte Smith. In two volumes.
Transcribed: Emmeline		Charlotte Turner SmithVolume 12/22/17902/24/1790
Caroline of Lichtfield; a novel. Translated from the French. By Thomas Holcroft.
Transcribed: Caroline		Thomas Holcroft; Isabelle de Montolieu Volume 12/24/17902/26/1790
Emmeline, the orphan of the castle. By Charlotte Smith. In two volumes.
Transcribed: Emmeline		Charlotte Turner SmithVolume 22/26/17903/1/1790
Caroline of Lichtfield; a novel. Translated from the French. By Thomas Holcroft.
Transcribed: Caroline		Thomas Holcroft; Isabelle de Montolieu Volume 23/1/17903/3/1790
The poems of Ossian.
Transcribed: Ossians Poems		James MacphersonVolume 13/3/17903/5/1790
The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America
Transcribed: Gordons Am War		William GordonVolume 13/5/17903/9/1790
The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America
Transcribed: "		William GordonVolume 33/9/17903/17/1790
The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America
Transcribed: "		William GordonVolume 43/17/17903/22/1790
The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America
Transcribed: "		William GordonVolume 23/22/17903/31/1790
The fair Syrian. A novel. In two volumes. ...
Transcribed: Fair Syrian		Robert BageVolume 13/31/17904/2/1790
The history of Miss Greville. In two volumes. By the author of Interesting memoirs. ...
Transcribed: Greville		Elizabeth KeirVolume 14/2/17904/7/1790
Fairy tales, selected from the best authors. In two volumes. ...
Transcribed: Fairy Tales		Volume 24/7/17904/9/1790
The history of Miss Greville. In two volumes. By the author of Interesting memoirs. ...
Transcribed: Greville		Elizabeth KeirVolume 24/9/17904/12/1790
Julia de Roubigné, a tale. In a series of letters. Published by the author of The man of feeling, and The man of the world. In two volumes. ...
Transcribed: Julia de Roubigne		Henry MackenzieVolume 14/12/17904/12/1790
The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher. In ten volumes. Collated with all the former editions, and corrected. With notes critical and explanatory. By The late Mr. Theobald, Mr. Seward of Eyam in Derbyshire, and Mr. Sympson of Gainsborough
Transcribed: Beaumont & Fletcher		Francis BeaumontVolume 14/12/17904/16/1790
The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher. In ten volumes. Collated with all the former editions, and corrected. With notes critical and explanatory. By The late Mr. Theobald, Mr. Seward of Eyam in Derbyshire, and Mr. Sympson of Gainsborough
Transcribed: "		Francis BeaumontVolume 24/16/1790
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