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

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

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

GLC03562.24

1770

Great Britain. Acts.

Document

Title: Act to continue...an act...for the better payment of the army and their quarters

The Quartering Act, which modified previous acts dealing with punishing munity and desertion, better pay, and quartering for the army. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan. Paginated 315-316 + unpaginated title page.

GLC03971

December 28, 1774

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Catharine Macaulay

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, nor Ear heard nor hath it entered into the Heart of the Minister or his Minions to conceive." He prophesies resistance and reprisals.

GLC01788

1880 ca.

Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), (c. 1849-1893)

Photograph signed

Title: [Mary E. Walker, M.D.]

Photograph of the Civil War surgeon Mary Walker wearing her army Medal of Honor. Walker's medal was revoked in 1917 when conditions for the medal were changed to warrant only battle conditions. Her Medal of Honor was reinstated in 1977. An inventor and advocate of women's rights, as well as a surgeon, she remains the only female recipient of the army Medal of Honor. GLC has a large collateral file of photocopies from the National Archives about Walker's Civil War work.

GLC05152

1774/08/29

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson

Comments on the "disagreeable" current events. Indicates that General Thomas Gage, then the commander-in-chief and governor of Massachusetts, "must recede," otherwise "carnage & bloodshed seem inevitable - there never was anything like the flame the last 2 Acts has produced...erect a standard and believe in a fortnight there would be ten thousnad country people flock to it." Earlier that year, Parliament had passed the intolerable acts--the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the second Quartering Act--in response to the…

GLC05663