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1777 Jrnls. Continental Congr. (U.S.) 8 625 There is due..a bill for material, workmanship, &c. furnished for the fire works on the 4 July, the sum of 102 69/90 dollars.]

1779 New Haven Colony Hist. Soc. Coll. VI. 317 Toasts were drank, to wit:..the Fourth of July, '76: The memorable era of American Independence.

1807 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) II. 369 From these reflections..we may collect some good fourth-of-July ideas.

1827 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. viii. 121 We did not celebrate the ‘glorious Fourth’ here.

1830 S. Breck Recoll. (1877) 91 On the Fourth, being a national holiday, there was a great parade on the Common.

1834 Southern Literary Messenger 1 156 I do not know that the celebration of a Fourth of July in a country village has ever been thought worthy of appearing in print.

1853 Southern Literary Messenger 19 473/1 Fourth-of-Julyisms fled to the stump or the national anniversary barbecues.

1854 W. G. Simms Southward Ho! xiii. 253 Ordinarily admirable, our dinner on the glorious Fourth was worthy of the occasion.

1872 E. Eggleston End of World xi. 76 No more electin' presidents.., no more Fourths,..no more nothin.

1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels ii. i. 183 A Fourth-of-Julyism has somehow become an object of contempt.

1888 J. R. Lowell Prose Wks. (1890) VI. 202 This is what may be called the Fourth of July period of our history.

1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 74 As I write I picture, here in my lonely study, bright Fourths of June.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 6/1 The amounts passing through on the 4ths of the months for 1893.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xiii. 206 It reminds me..of a Fourth I helped to celebrate down in Salvador.

1967 D. Francis Blood Sport viii. 94 I'm glad you could take me at such short notice, with the Fourth coming up this weekend.