The History of a Corporation of Servants. Discovered a few Years ago in the Interior Parts of South America. Containing some very Surprising Events and Extraordinary Characters

1765 [Witherspoon, John] (1723-94). The History of a Corporation of Servants. Discovered a few Years ago in the Interior Parts of South America. Containing some very Surprising Events and Extraordinary Characters. Glasgow, Scot.: Ptd. for John Gilmour. Rpt. in The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D. L.L.D. Late President of the College at Princeton, New-Jersey. To Which is Prefixed An Account of the Author’s Life, in a Sermon occasioned by his Death, By the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New-York. 2^nd ed. Rev. and corr. 4 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. & published By William W. Woodward, 1802), 3: 313-63. Collection rpt. as The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon. 4 vols. (Bristol, Eng.: Thoemmes Press, 2003), 3: 311-63. L, MnU, NLS, PSt

Satire on a society that comes to be controlled by its servants which can be read as a satire on the churches of England and Scotland. Witherspoon was born in Scotland and moved to the US in 1768, where he became the first president of what became Princeton University. He was one of the signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.