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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
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