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An Act for granting and applying certain stamp duties... [Stamp Act]

original London edition of the Stamp Act

GLC03562.11

An Act to repeal... An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties

[duplicate of GLC 3402]

GLC03562.12

An Act for indemnifying persons [refunding fines to defiers of the Stamp Act]

GLC03562.13

An Act for the better securing the dependency of... America [Declaratory Act]

GLC03562.16

Archive of correspondence re: Nova Scotia politics and mercantile affairs [partially decimalized]

Also mentions the Stamp Act, Bunker Hill and early Revolutionary War. Joshua Mauger Collection. [various places]: 343 items, 1619-1789 (bulk: 1763-1785). The greater part of the collection consists of 249 letters to Mauger, dealing primarily with...

GLC03902

to Joshua Mauger

Discusses ships, Mauger's brother and the price of beaver fur.

GLC03902.001

to Joshua Mauger

The price of beaver is low so he will wait before trying to sell the shipment. Also mentions rising bankruptcy among English merchants. He is ill.

GLC03902.002

to Joshua Mauger

A Captain Richard Linthorne from Poole wishes to purchase a ship. Watson hopes the captain's destination is Halifax or Holland rather than America; any number of ships are willing to go to the former destinations. [Written during the stamp act...

GLC03902.003

to Joshua Mauger

Discusses business matters. Reports at length on his talk with Lord Halifax about the Stamp Act and the situation in America. Provides a view into the British debate over handling the discord in the American colonies in such a way that will both...

GLC03902.004

to Joshua Mauger

Regarding finances. He needs records from Mauger's bankers to make his account current.

GLC03902.005