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(Boston Covenant). Calling for cessation of all trade with Great Britain
1774/06
Blank form, leaving empty the name of the town. Calls for a complete cessation of trade with Britain until repeal of the Boston Port Bill.
GLC04071
Boston evening post. Supplement [printing Boston Port Act]
1774/05/16
Great Britain. Parliament. Boston Port.
Slight text loss to newspaper banner at top.
GLC06743
to Ezekiel Williams
29 July 1774
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
Written by Adams as a member of the Massachusetts General Court (he would join the First Continental Congress on 5 September 1774) to Williams as Deputy Commissioner of Prisoners in Connecticut and a Sheriff for Hartford County. References Williams...
GLC06657.01
[Request for donations for the poor of Boston]
October 25, 1774
Boston (Mass.). Committee of Donations
Broadside listing the twenty six members of the committee (including Samuel Adams, Thomas Boylston, and John Adams) seeks donations in accord with their mission to relieve the "Poor, suffering by means of the Act of Parliament, commonly called the...
GLC06657.02
February 23, 1776
Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797
Written by Wolcott, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as a Continental Congressman from Connecticut, probably to Ezekiel Williams as Connecticut Commissioner of Prisoners and Wolcott's son-in-law. Notes already in Past Perfect said this...
GLC06659
The Gentleman's Magazine
June 1775
Urban, Sylvanus, 1745-1826
Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, London. Includes a fold-out regional map of Boston area and dramatic "Account of the proceedings of the American Colonists Since the passing the Boston Port-Bill," including Lexington and Concord. Also has...
GLC02360
to Catharine Macaulay
December 28, 1774
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Adams describes the effects of the Boston Port Bill upon the government and people of the colony. He warns that the arrest of Parliament's opponents "will produce Resistance, and Reprisals, and a Flame through America, Such as Eye hath not yet Seen...
GLC01788
December 29, 1774
Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814
Warren describes the resolve of the people to resist "the strides of Wanton power" and fears the results, "an innocent Land Drenched [in] Blood." Believes that surely this destruction and anger can't continue much longer, particularly the blockade...
GLC01800.01
The Country twenty-five miles round New York
1 November 1776
Hawkes, W., fl. 1776
Irregular shaped paper. Engraving with letterpress chronological table of events from 1773-Oct. 1776, engraved by J. Barber and printed by W. Hawkes. Irregularly shaped. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 110, who notes that a later...
GLC02005
An act to discontinue... shipping... within the Harbour, of Boston [Port Bill]
1774
Great Britain. Acts.
The Boston Port Act. Paginated 515-522 + unpaginated title page. [one of the five "Intolerable Acts"]
GLC00402
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