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Thomson, Charles Congressional resolve to appoint committee to compile list of hostilities

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00505.02 Author/Creator: Thomson, Charles Place Written: Philadelphia Type: Autograph document signed Date: 18 October 1775 Pagination: 1 p. 16 x 16 cm Order a Copy

Appointed John Adams, Silas Deane and George Wythe to the committee.

Notes: The responses received to this document's request for a list of British hostilities may have been the source for that list in the Declaration of Independence.

Adams, John, 1735-1826
Wythe, George, 1726-1806
Deane, Silas, 1737-1789
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

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