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United States. Continental Congress

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To John M. S-----, Esq; : Sir, It was not from any respect which is due to your character, or dread of your much talked of abilities, that would have induced me so long to remain silent …, page 2

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To John M. S-----, Esq; : Sir, It was not from any respect which is due to your character, or dread of your much talked of abilities, that would have induced me so long to remain silent …, page [1]

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To John M. S-----, Esq; : Sir, It was not from any respect which is due to your character, or dread of your much talked of abilities, that would have induced me so long to remain silent ...

Accusing John Morin Scott of duplicity and of endeavoring to create party spirit and division between the merchants and mechanics. Signed: New-York, July 23, 1774. A citizen. Followed by: To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York [concerning the appointment of delegates to the Continental Congress]. Signed: A son of liberty. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. New-York Historical copy torn, with some loss of text.

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Whereas the American Continental Congress have recommended another to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next,--we the provincial committee ... recommend it to the respective towns in this government to appoint deputies in their behalf to mee

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Whereas the American Continental Congress have recommended another to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next,--we the provincial committee ... recommend it to the respective towns in this government to appoint deputies in their behalf to mee

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Whereas the American Continental Congress have recommended another to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next,--we the provincial committee ... recommend it to the respective towns in this government to appoint deputies in their behalf to mee

Imprint supplied by Bristol. New-York Historical copy inscribed at foot: J. Wentworth, chairman, for the selectmen of Kingstown; inscribed on verso: for the Selectmen of Kingstown, on the country's service.

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Advertisement. At a general meeting of the Committee of Mechanicks, at the house of Edward Bardin, yesterday evening, the nomination of the Committee of Merchants, of delegates to serve at the General Congress, was taken into consideration ...

Concerning the nomination of delegates to the Continental Congress from New York City. Dated: Wednesday, July 6, 1774.

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To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. : Gentlemen, The five deputies nominated by the Committee of Correspondence for the city and county, not being all approved of by the citizens ...

Concerning the election of delegates to the Continental Congress. Dated: New-York. July 7th, 1774.

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Advertisement. The Committee of Correspondence in New-York, having on Monday night last proceeded to the nomination of five persons to go as delegates for the said city and county, on the proposed general congress at Philadelphia, on the 1st of September

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Advertisement. The Committee of Correspondence in New-York, having on Monday night last proceeded to the nomination of five persons to go as delegates for the said city and county, on the proposed general congress at Philadelphia, on the 1st of September

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Advertisement. The Committee of Correspondence in New-York, having on Monday night last proceeded to the nomination of five persons to go as delegates for the said city and county, on the proposed general congress at Philadelphia, on the 1st of September

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Advertisement. The Committee of Correspondence in New-York, having on Monday night last proceeded to the nomination of five persons to go as delegates for the said city and county, on the proposed general congress at Philadelphia, on the 1st of September

The New-York Historical Society has copies in two states. The first state has the misspelling "sead" on line 16, which is corrected to "stead" in the second state. Signed: By order of the committee, Isaac Low, chairman. Tuesday, 5th July, 1774. New-York Historical copy 1 (SY1774 no.46) is state 1. New-York Historical copies 2 and 3 (SY1774 no.51) are state 2; copy 3 has manuscript notes.

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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. …, verso

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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. …, recto

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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. ...

"An agreement between the twelve colonies not to trade with England, drafted by Thomas Cushing, Isaac Low, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henry Lee, and Thomas Johnson, Jun."--Ford, P.L. Some materials for a bibliography of the official publications of the Continental Congress, 1888, p. 3. Signed: In Congress, Philadelphia, October 20, 1774. Signed, Peyton Randolph, president. Text in two columns.

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To the respectable publick. : Certain resolves having been proposed by the Committee of Correspondence, to a number of citizens assembled at the coffee-house yesterday, and rejected ... they proceeded to nominate a new committee for the purpose, and appoi

Declining the appointment to the committee of delegates to the Continental Congress offered by the Committee of Correspondence. Signed and dated: We are, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servants, Isaac Low, Henry Remsen, John Moore, John Jay. New-York, July 20, 1774. To the Gentlemen of the Committee at Mr. Doran's.

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To the citizens of New-York, on the present critical situation of affairs. : Were I neither a Philadelphian, a New-Yorker, a Bostonian, nor even a native of this continent ... I should interest myself in the fate of America. …, verso

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To the citizens of New-York, on the present critical situation of affairs. : Were I neither a Philadelphian, a New-Yorker, a Bostonian, nor even a native of this continent ... I should interest myself in the fate of America. …, recto

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To the citizens of New-York, on the present critical situation of affairs. : Were I neither a Philadelphian, a New-Yorker, a Bostonian, nor even a native of this continent ... I should interest myself in the fate of America. …

Advocating an election of delegates to a general Congress of the colonies. Signed on p. [2]: Anglus Americanus. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text in two columns.

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To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. : My friends and fellow-citizens, It has frequently given pain to every well-wisher of his country, when it has been observed, that in many of our public assemblies, party-zeal, instead of public-good

Recommending as delegates to the Continental Congress the five nominees of the Committee of Correspondence. Signed and dated: An American. July 5, 1774. New-York Historical copy inscribed: A. Lamb.

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To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. : Gentlemen, The favourable sentiments many of you were pleased to entertain of me, in nominating me one of your deputies for this city and county, lay me under great obligat

Signed: Alexr. M'Dougall. New-York, July 9, 1774. Surrounded by an ornamental border.

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Proceedings of the general Congress of delegates from the several British colonies in North-America, held in Philadelphia, September 1774, verso

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Proceedings of the general Congress of delegates from the several British colonies in North-America, held in Philadelphia, September 1774, recto

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Proceedings of the general Congress of delegates from the several British colonies in North-America, held in Philadelphia, September 1774.

Contains the proceedings of Sept. 17, 1774 and a description of a dinner held September 19, 1774. Text in three columns.

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,

Caption title. William Livingston��s copy of the second draft of the United States Constitution, with his manuscript annotations showing changes that appear in the final version. William Livingston was Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790. He joined the New Jersey Delegation to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and was one of the signers of the Constitution.

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,

Caption title. William Livingston��s copy of the second draft of the United States Constitution, with his manuscript annotations showing changes that appear in the final version. William Livingston was Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790. He joined the New Jersey Delegation to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and was one of the signers of the Constitution.

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,

Caption title. William Livingston��s copy of the second draft of the United States Constitution, with his manuscript annotations showing changes that appear in the final version. William Livingston was Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790. He joined the New Jersey Delegation to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and was one of the signers of the Constitution.

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,

Caption title. William Livingston��s copy of the second draft of the United States Constitution, with his manuscript annotations showing changes that appear in the final version. William Livingston was Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790. He joined the New Jersey Delegation to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and was one of the signers of the Constitution.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776. : A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled, recto

The Declaration of Independence, place of publication and printer unknown. "Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, sec'ry." Text printed in two columns, 70 lines in first. Watermark: A Rogge. References: Bristol B4404; Shipton & Mooney, 43196; Walsh, M.J. "Contemporary Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence." Harvard Library Bulletin 3 (1949): 31-43, 5.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776. : A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled, verso

The Declaration of Independence, place of publication and printer unknown. "Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, sec'ry." Text printed in two columns, 70 lines in first. Watermark: A Rogge. References: Bristol B4404; Shipton & Mooney, 43196; Walsh, M.J. "Contemporary Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence." Harvard Library Bulletin 3 (1949): 31-43, 5.