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To the friends of liberty and trade, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, the celebrated Pennsylvania Farmer, having been frequently called upon in public, to give his sentiments relative to the measures that should be adopted to battle the present design of the ministry, and the India Company, to enslave America, he is, from the stile, and other considerations, supposed to be the author of the following letter, published in Philadelphia, which is republished, for your information ..
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Sons of Liberty
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The speech of George the Third, tyrant of Great Britain, to his venal Parliament, delivered October 31, 1776
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Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III)
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In the House of Representatives. The report of the delegates of this colony in the late Continental Congress : held at Philadelphia, being made, accepted, and approved.--Resolved, that the Association entered into and signed by them in behalf of this colony, ought to be faithfully kept and observed ... Test. Richard Law, clerk
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Connecticut. General Assembly. House of Representatives
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At a very full meeting of delegates from the different counties in the colony and dominion of Virginia : begun in Williamsburg the first day of August, in the year of our Lord 1774, and continued by several adjournments to Saturday the 6th of the same month, the following association was unanimously resolved upon and agreed to
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By His Excellency, Joseph Dudley Esq. ... A proclamation : Whereas Her Majesty by her royal proclamation, for settling and ascertaining the current rates of foreign coines, in Her Majesties colonies and plantations in America ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the third day of March 1704 [new style, 1705]. ..
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Massachusetts. Governor (1702-1715 : Dudley)
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By His Excellency the Honourable Thomas Gage, Esq ; ... A proclamation : Whereas the infatuated multitudes, who have long suffered themselves to be conducted by certain well known incendiaries and traitors ... have at length proceeded to avowed rebellion ... Given at Boston, this twelfth day of June ... 1775. ..
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Massachusetts. Governor (1774-1775 : Gage)
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Proceedings of the general Congress of delegates from the several British colonies in North-America, held in Philadelphia, September 1774
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United States. Continental Congress
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By the Honourable John Nanfan, Esq ; His Majesties lieut. governour and commander in chief in and over the province of New-York ... A proclamation : Whereas several private commissions ... Given at Fort William Henry in New-York, the 29th day of January 1701
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New York (Colony). Lieutenant Governor (1697-1702 : Nanfan)
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To the public : Whoever seriously considers the impoverished state of this city ; especially of many of the poor inhabitants of it, must be greatly surprised at the conduct of such of them as employ the soldiers ..
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Brutus, active 18th century
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Declaration : Although the Congress, whom the misguided Americans suffer to direct their opposition ... Given at New-York, the nineteenth day of September, 1776. ..
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Great Britain. King's Commissioners for Restoring Peace to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North-America
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Declaration, Whereas by an act passed in the last session of Parliament ..
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Great Britain. King's Commissioners for Restoring Peace to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North-America
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In Congress, May 15, 1776. : Whereas His Britannic Majesty, in conjunction with the Lords and Commons of Great-Britain, has ... excluded the inhabitants of these United Colonies from the protection of the crown: ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies ... to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the Representatives of the people best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents ..
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United States. Continental Congress
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Proclamation. Whereas by our declarations of the 14th of July, and 19th of September ... Given at New-York, this thirtieth day of November, 1776
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Great Britain. King's Commissioners for Restoring Peace to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North-America
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New-York, December 6, 1775 : (Yesterday the following letter, and address, to the inhabitants of this colony, was, by His Excellency our governor, sent to Whitehead Hicks, Esq ; mayor of this city.) ..
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New York (Colony). Governor (1771-1780 : Tryon)
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In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 5, 1774 : Resolved, that the proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the fifth of September last, and reported by the honourable delegates from this colony, have with the deliberation due to their high importance been considered by us ..
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Massachusetts. Provincial Congress
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To the betrayed inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York : My dear fellow citizens and countrymen, In a day when the minions of tyranny and despotism in the mother country, and the colonies, are indefatigable in laying every snare that their malevolent and corrupt hearts can suggest, to enslave a free people ..
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Son of Liberty, 1732-1786
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At a meeting of the inhabitants of the city of Annapolis, on Wednesday the 25th day of May, 1774, after notice given of the time, place and occasion of this meeting ..
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To the worthy inhabitants of the city of New-York : the cause, fellow citizens, which I espouse, asks nothing but an impartial judgment ..
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Poplicola, 1749-1811
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To the public : The sense of the city relative to the landing the India Company's tea ... it is the desire of a number of the citizens, that at his departure from hence, he should see, with his own eyes, their detestation of the measures pursued by the ministry and the India Company, to enslave this country..
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To the inhabitants of New-York, and all the British colonies. New-York, 20th April 1775 : the following very interesting accounts were yesterday received by the snow Gen. Johnson, Capt. Dean, in 31 days from England ..
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By John Burgoyne, Esq; &c. &c. lieut. general of His Majesty's forces in America ... and commanding an army and fleet in an expedition from Canada, &c. &c. &c. : The forces entrusted to my command are designed to act in concert ... with the numerous armies and fleets which already display, in every quarter of America, the power, the justice, and, when properly sought, the mercy of the King ..
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Great Britain. Army
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Manifesto and proclamation : To the members of the Congress, the members of the general assemblies or conventions of the several colonies ... and all others, free inhabitants of the said colonies ... By the Earl of Carlisle, Sir Henry Clinton, and William Eden, Esq ; ... Commissioners to Treat, Consult, and Agree upon the Means of Quieting the Disorders Now Subsisting in Certain of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces in North-America
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Great Britain. Commissioners to Treat, Consult, and Agree upon the Means of Quieting the Disorders Now Subsisting in Certain of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces in North-America
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Manifesto and proclamation : To the members of the Congress, the members of the general assemblies or conventions of the several colonies, plantations, and provinces of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three lower counties of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and all others, free inhabitants of the said colonies, of every rank and denomination
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Great Britain. Commissioners to Treat, Consult, and Agree upon the Means of Quieting the Disorders Now Subsisting in Certain of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces in North-America
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By a packet, arrived at New-York, and Captain Spain at Philadelphia, from England, we have the following interesting advices ..
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By the packet just arrived here, and Captain Spain, at Philadelphia, from England, we have the following interesting advices
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A dissertation on disputes between Great Britain and her colonies
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Analysis A. P., approximately 1700-approximately 1785
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Dr. Auchmuty's letter to Capt. Montresor, chief engineer, at Boston : New-York, April 19, 1775. My dear sir, Yesterday Capt. Coupar arrived from London ; Rivington I conclude will have all the news in his paper ..
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Auchmuty, Samuel, 1722-1777
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From the London evening post, 29th of April 1775. To the three generals, with Scotch orders, on their voyage to North-America : Critical and faithful extracts from Colonel Cavallier's Memoirs of the wars of the Cevennes, or Lower Languedoc, in his own handwriting, and in the French language
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By the Honourable John Nanfan, Esq ; His Majesties lieut. governour and commander in chief in and over the province of New-York ... A proclamation : Whereas Coll. Nicholas Bayard and Alderman John Hutchins, together with some few other persons, disaffected to this His Majesties government ... have incited the people to disown the present authority ... Given at Fort William Henry in New-York, this 24th day of January, 1701 ..
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New York (Colony). Lieutenant Governor (1697-1702 : Nanfan)
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At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston : legally qualified and warn'd in public town meeting assembled, at Faneuil-Hall, on Monday the 12th of September, A.D. 1768
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Boston (Mass.)
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Fellow citizens, friends to liberty and equal commerce
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Student of Law, active 1773
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To the inhabitants of New-York : I am much alarmed to find some of my fellow citizens who mean well to the cause of American freedom, under the influence of a strange and mistaken opinion, that it would be proper to withhold all provisions and clothing from the soldiery at Boston ..
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Humanus
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To His Excellency Brigadeer Robert Hunter, Esq ; captain general and governour in chief in and over his Majesties colonies of New-York and New-Jersey, and all the territories and tracts of land depending thereon in America, and vice-admiral of the same : the humble address of the General Assembly of the colony of New-York
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New York (Colony). General Assembly
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Anno sexto Annae Reginae : an act of Parliament for ascertaining the rates of forreign coyns in Her Majesties plantations in America
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Great Britain
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By His Excellency William Howe, major general, &c. &c. &c. : As linnen and woolen goods are articles much wanted by the rebels, and would aid and assist them in their rebellion ..
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Great Britain. Army
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To the free-holders and free-men of the city, and province of New York : Brethren, While the enemies of our country endeavour, by chicane and false reports, circulated in private, to sap the foundations of liberty ..
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Tradesman, active 1773
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The association of the Sons of Liberty, of New-York : It is essential to the freedom and security of a free people, that no taxes be imposed upon them but by their own consent, or their representatives ..
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Sons of Liberty
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To the freeborn citizens of New-York : Gentlemen, As I conclude every individual is now called upon to contribute his mite in supporting the cause of liberty ..
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Moderate man
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An answer to the citizen's address to the public, published the 18th instant
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Plebeian
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The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish thus early purely to ease the impatience of the public : Association, &c. ..
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United States. Continental Congress
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A citizen's address to the public : I expect that my fellow citizens, after they have sufficiently amused themselves in reading the late publications that have been pushed under their doors, will patiently and candidly attend to me, in my turn ..
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Citizen, active 1769
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By Commodore Sir George Collier, commander in chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in North America ; and Major-General William Tryon, commanding His Majesty's land forces on a seperate expedition : Address, to the inhabitants of Connecticut. ... Given on board His Majesty's ship Camilla, in the Sound, July 4th, 1779
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Great Britain. Royal Navy
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Draft of a bill for declaring the intentions of the Parliament of Great-Britain concerning the exercise of the right of imposing taxes within His Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North-America
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Great Britain. Parliament
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To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, As the conduct of the general committee is not understood by some, and misrepresented by others ..
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Freeholder, active 1775
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To the people of New-York. : Though the association lately set on foot, was on pretence of keeping the peace of the city, yet it is evident that it has a direct tendency to disturb that peace ..
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Citizen
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[New York] : [Printed by John Holt], [1774]
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To the public : Being informed that many of our fellow-citizens entertain apprehensions, that if we continue in this place, we may as usual carry on and transact trade and business ... we do therefore ... declare, that we will not transact any trade or commerce whatsoever ..
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Murray, Robert, 1721-1786
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To the public : Being informed that many of our fellow-citizens entert[a]in apprehensions that we may continue as usual to transact trade and business ... we will shut up our store ..
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Murray, Robert, 1721-1786
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To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, As a report prevails, that the ship Beulah, is destined for Halifax, I have perused the association of the Congress, in order to satisfy myself, whether her going there, will be conformable to their intention: I think it will not ..
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Citizen, active 1775
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To the publick. New-York, October 27, 1774 : Whereas Thomas Charles Williams ... has, in a most daring manner, insulted the inhabitants of British America, by purchasing and shipping 17 packages of tea ... whoever shall be found to harbour or conceal the said Williams, will be deemed an enemy to the liberties of America, and treated accordingly
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Legion, active 1774
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New-York, November 5, 1773. To the friends of liberty and commerce : Gentlemen, It must be strongly marked on your minds, that the end of the last non-importation agreement, was to obtain a repeal of the tyrannical act of Parliament, that imposed a duty on glass, painter's colours, paper, tea, &c. which was designed to raise a revenue from you, without your consent. You know, that so much of this act, as imposed the duty on tea, is yet unrepealed. Your honour, is therefore, bound to maintain the non-importation agreement, until this act is repealed ..
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Cassius, active 1773
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