1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

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

GLC03562.13

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for repealing certain duties... and for granting other duties [?coffee]

GLC03562.14

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to amend... An Act for punishing mutiny... [amends Quartering Act]

GLC03562.15

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

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

GLC03562.16

1767

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for restraining... the Governor, Council and House... of New York

A response to New York's resistance to the Townshend Acts.

GLC03562.17

1770

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable the Governor, Council & Assembly...of New York [reconstituting]

GLC03562.18

1773

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to explain and amend... An Act to prevent paper bills of credit....

GLC03562.19

1774

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better regulating the government of... Massachusetts Bay

Reorganizing the government of Massachusetts. [one of the "Intolerable Acts"]

GLC03562.20

1774

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the impartial administration of justice [protecting Tory officials]

One of the five "Intolerable Acts"

GLC03562.21

1775

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to amend... An act for punishing mutiny [further amending Quartering Act]

GLC03562.22

1776

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to prohibit all trade... [with the rebelling colonies]

GLC03562.23

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for repealing... An Act for the... regulating the government... of Mass.

GLC03562.24

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the relief of captors of prizes [duties on privateers]

GLC03562.25

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for removing all doubts... concerning taxation [and repealing tea duty]

GLC03562.26

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable His Majesty to appoint commissioners [negotiate with America]

GLC03562.27

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for allowing the exportation of... wheat-flour... [to Canada]

GLC03562.28

1782

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable His Majesty to conclude a peace or truce with certain colonies

GLC03562.29

1782

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better detaining, and more easy exchange of American prisoners...

GLC03562.30

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to repeal... two acts... as prohibits trade.. with the United States

GLC03562.31

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for preventing certain instruments being required... [trade related]

GLC03562.32

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for appointing commissioners to enquire into the losses [for Tories]

GLC03562.33

24 December 1814

Great Britain. Treaties.

Pamphlet

Title: A Treaty of peace and Amity [Treaty of Ghent. Official British printing]

Printed by R. G. Clarke. [duplicate of GLC 3985.18]

GLC03562.34

17 September 1787

Constitutional Convention, 1787

Document signed

Title: United States Constitution. Printed Dunlap & Claypoole edition inscribed to Jonathan Williams

One printing of the United States Constitution by Dunlap & Claypoole dated September 17, 1787. This printing of the Constitution is missing the last two pages cutting off after the second paragraph of the sixth article. It is a members printing of the Constitution by Dunlap & Claypoole, inscribed by Benjamin Franklin (as President of Pennsylvania) to Jonathan Williams Sr., a successful Massachusetts businessman and husband to Franklin's niece, Grace Harris Williams. The members printing was intended to be distributed to state governments and influential Americans. This printing…

GLC03585

1 August 1850

Phelps, Samuel Shethar, 1793-1855

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. H. Barrett

Phelps, a Whig Senator from Vermont, writes to J. H. Barrett, possibly Joseph Hartwell Barrett. Relates that an article by E. D. Barber in the "Brandon Post" (a newspaper from Brandon, Vermont) provided misinformation regarding the Clayton Bill of 1848. Phelps argues that this bill prohibited the extension of slavery, and was an equivalent to the Wilmot Proviso. He vehemently defends his position on the bill against Barber's false reports, emphasizing his opposition to the spread of slavery. Also argues that Barber misrepresented Horace Greeley's opinion of the bill, and thinks the bill's…

GLC03678.01

22 August 1850

Phelps, Samuel Shethar, 1793-1855

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Docketed with blue ink. Possibly to J. H. Barrett (refer to GLC03678.01). Discusses the Compromise of 1850 (the Pearce Act) in detail. Phelps offers his opinion on the act, which related to the extension of slavery in territories acquired by the Mexican American War: "... this country is and will remain a desert and neither slavery or population will ever exist there." Phelps voted for the Compromise of 1850 because, "there was danger that the govt. itself might be dissolved if these questions about slavery were not disposed of... It was not violence that I apprehended but the... silent…

GLC03678.02