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[1764]

Bernard, Francis, 1712-1779

Manuscript document

Title: Principles of Law & Policy applied to British Colonies in America

GLC07654.04

1764/10/03

Temple, John, fl. 1764

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Grenville re: improprieties in collecting taxes in Colonies

GLC07654.05

1764/10/29

Murray, James, fl. 1764

Letter

Title: to Commissioners of Trade and Plantation re: French under English rule in Quebec

GLC07654.06

1765 ca.

Grenville, George, 1753-1813

Manuscript document

Title: List of undischarged taxes from the Colonies

GLC07654.07

1765/02/01

Rogers, Nathaniel, fl. 1765

Letter

Title: to George Grenville re: the Stamp Act, a need for changes in colonial society

GLC07654.08

1765/02 ca.

Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Grenville re: Colonial remonstrance against Molasses Act of 1733

He quotes: "'That the Complaint contained in the New England Memorial & Petition was frivolous & Groundless, an high Insult upon his Majesty's Government, & tending to shake off the dependency of the said Colony upon this Kingdom, to which by Law & Rights they are & ought to be subject."

GLC07654.09

1765/07/04

Grenville, George, 1753-1813

Manuscript document

Title: to King George III re: establishment of admiralty courts

With secretarial signatures of Grenville, Lord North and John Turner. Copy of a letter to King George III discussing the admiralty and vice admiralty courts, along with a description of three new courts at Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston.

GLC07654.10

1765/07/09

Great Britain. Treasury.

Manuscript document

Title: Treasury minutes re: Stamp Act revenue

"...[I]t is expected that a full Asembly will form very different Resolutions Such as may cement the Union, which alone can establish the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies and the Mother Country." Marked "Copy" on first page.

GLC07654.11

1765/09/14

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: to Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier re: Va. House of Burgesses resolves on Stamp Act

GLC07654.12

1765/10/24

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: Circular letter to colonial governors re: suppression of rebellion

GLC07654.13

1765/12/15

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: to Maj. Gen. Thomas Gage re: mob uprisings in New York City

GLC07654.14

1765/12/15

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: to Lt. Gov. Cadwallader Colden re: New York City Stamp Act riots

GLC07654.15

1764/12/11-1765/12/17

Grenville, George, 1753-1813

Autograph manuscript

Title: Notes from Treasury Council meetings

GLC07654.16

1766/01 ca.

Lords Treasury Committee

Manuscript document

Title: Motion for an address re: Stamp Act opposition in the colonies

GLC07654.17

[1766]/02/04

Lords Treasury Committee

Manuscript document

Title: Resolutions of Lords Treasury Committee on American business

Document states that the laws imposed by the Parliment of Great Britain are to be held strictly, and any governor in those colonies that have partook in insurrection should make sure his subjects pay the proper recompensations to the Crown and to those who their actions have harmed (either physically or financially). Also, those colonists who have complied with British laws are to be protectedand held in favor.

GLC07654.18

1766/02/14

Sons of Liberty (New York, NY)

Letter signed

Title: to [unknown] re: unifying the Sons of Liberty in New York

Call to assembly of as many Sons of Liberty as possible to combat the threat of British taxation and to protest the Stamp Act, as well as demand trials by juries.

GLC07654.19

1766/03 ca.

Knox, William, 1756-1795

Manuscript document

Title: Considerations continued no. 2

Discussion of the plausibility of a "drawback," or export tariff on goods before they left England so that the final price in the colonies would be slightly higher but a tax would not be added on in the colonies, in an effort to lessen opposition to the tax.

GLC07654.21

1766/03/17

Great Britain. Parliament.

Manuscript document

Title: Lords protest re: repeal of the Stamp Act

Response from the House of Lords, in dissension to the Bill of Appeal of the Stamp Act. "If we give our Consent to it without a full Conviction that is right . . . we in effect annihilate this Branch of Legislature, & vote ourselves useless." Possibly in Grenville's hand.

GLC07654.22