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An act for the better securing the dependency of His Majesty's dominions in America upon the Crown and Parliament of Great-Britain. Passed in March 1766.

The Declaratory act of 1766. Text in Roman type; first line of caption title printed in capitals: "AN ACT". Final paragraph: II. And be it further declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all resolutions, votes, orders, and proceedings, in any of the said colonies or plantations, whereby the power and authority of the Parliament of Great-Britain, to make laws and statutes as aforesaid, is denied or drawn into question, are, and are hereby declared to be utterly null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

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Advices from Philadelphia, dated July 23, 1774. : "The committee from the several counties of this province, met in this city the 15th instant, and have been very busy ever since in framing intructions to the Assembly ..."

Contains a letter to the Pennsylvania Assembly, signed: A freeman. Place of publication supplied by Evans. New-York Historical copy has manuscript note: "New York July 26th 1774. Morning".

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To the respectable public. : We conceive the sense of our fellow citizens, relative to the delegates to represent them at the proposed congress ... remains so uncertain, that until the sentiments of the town are ascertained with greater precision, we can

Signed: John Alsop, Isaac Low, John Jay. New-York, July 20, 1774. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans.

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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 inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York. : Fathers, brethren, and fellow countrymen, In this alarming crisis, of our public affairs, it is the incumbent duty of every well wisher to the rights and privileges of this much injured country …, v

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To the inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York. : Fathers, brethren, and fellow countrymen, In this alarming crisis, of our public affairs, it is the incumbent duty of every well wisher to the rights and privileges of this much injured country …, r

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To the inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York. : Fathers, brethren, and fellow countrymen, In this alarming crisis, of our public affairs, it is the incumbent duty of every well wisher to the rights and privileges of this much injured country ...

Concerning the election of delegates to the Continental Congress. Signed: New-York, June 30th, 1774. A citizen. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. Text in two columns.

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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Mr. Pitt, General Conway, George Grenville, Mr. Nugent, Lord Strange, Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Beckford, &c. in Parliament, on Tuesday the 14th day of January, 1766, for and against the repeal of the Stamp-Act; : taken down

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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Mr. Pitt, General Conway, George Grenville, Mr. Nugent, Lord Strange, Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Beckford, &c. in Parliament, on Tuesday the 14th day of January, 1766, for and against the repeal of the Stamp-Act; : taken down

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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Mr. Pitt, General Conway, George Grenville, Mr. Nugent, Lord Strange, Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Beckford, &c. in Parliament, on Tuesday the 14th day of January, 1766, for and against the repeal of the Stamp-Act; : taken down

Text in three columns.

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Joseph Reed and Esther De Berdt Reed papers, 1757-1874

Joseph Reed (1741-1785) was a lawyer, Revolutionary War soldier, and statesman born in Trenton, New Jersey. His wife, Esther De Berdt (1747-1780), organized aid for the Continental Army during the Revolution and was born in London, England.

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Stephen Bayard letters, 1728-1743

Four letters from Stephen Bayard to Gilbert Livingston of Kingston, N.Y., and one to Evert Wendell of Albany, dated New York between 1728 and 1743, before Bayard became mayor of the city. The correspondence is largely concerned with financial matters, especially debts Bayard wished to collect. One letter to Livingston is signed by both Stephen and Nicholas Bayard; another, dated December 6, 1731, mentions new governmental appointments in New York and New Jersey and praises a grand jury charge by James De Lancey.

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Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1763-1783

The New-York Historical Society has an extensive collection of broadsides that document the American Revolution and the tumultuous events leading up to it. Broadsides, the technical term for any document, large or small, printed on one side of a single sheet of paper, served as posters, handbills, official proclamations, advertisements, and conveyors of ballads and poetry. They were plastered on walls, distributed by hand or read out loud and are especially important for the study of the Revolutionary period.

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