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1775/08/23

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

Broadside

Title: A Proclamation, for Suppressing Rebellion...

GLC07851

1776/11/20

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Letter signed

Title: to Convention of the State of Georgia re: importance of carrying on the war

GLC07853

1786/11/18

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Responds favorably to the work done at the Annapolis Convention and since. Explains why he cannot attend the Constitutional Convention. He was re-elected president of the Society of Cincinnati, whose meeting coincides with the convention. Although he declined that position because of his desire to retire from public life, attending the Constitutional Convention would be considered a snub to the former officers of the Continental Army. Expresses his happiness in hearing Madison would chair the Virginia delegation to the Constitutional Convention.

GLC07699

1777/07/29

Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Colonel Brewer re: military movements of General Howe

"I am still of the opinion General Howe goes southward or returns to the North River- He will receive great aid in attacking Philadelphia from his shipping and great assistance from the inhabitants of all the lower counties." Written at Coryells Ferry

GLC07710

1783/08/02

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Baron de Capellan de Sol re: letter of thanks

Highly complimentary letter of thanks for a gift received from the Patriotic Society of the City of Enkhuysen, The Netherlands. "Your station, Sir, and your Character in particular, have indeed merited the confidence and regard of the Confederate States of America..."

GLC07676

1786/08/23

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Jonathan Loring Austin re: his Fourth of July oration

GLC07696

1766 ca.

Grenville, George, 1753-1813

Autograph manuscript

Title: Act for the Better Securing the Dependency of...America

GLC07655

1783/03/12

Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813

Letter signed

Title: to Nathanael Greene re: news of the Peace Treaty

"I should think it prudent to maintain so respectable a force in Georgia and South Carolina as would discourage any attempt on them fin case the Negotiations should prove abortive."

GLC07661

1776 ca.

Habermann, Francois X., 1721-1796

Title: Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck [Vue d'Optique] [Burning of Wall Street area, New York]

GLC07754

1778/05/18

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gouverneur Morris re: enemy planning to leave Philadelphia

GLC07835

1783/03/12

Humphreys, W., fl. 1783

Title: The Tea Tax Tempest... no. 227

GLC07823

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