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Pamphlet

Opinion of Chief Justice Moses... Negro Bond Case

1871

Moses, Franklin Israel, 1838-1906

Retroactive use of 13th Amendment to cancel sale of slaves.

GLC07627

Collection Item

Document

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]

1771/05/20-25

Letter to the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere guiding Quaker conduct. The letter warns against overuse of credit, "[f]or by these Practices, many inncocent Wives and Children have been inevitably and...

GLC07628

Collection Item

Document

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Revolution]

1777/05/19-24

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Both letters guide the conduct of Quakers, and encourage peaceful conduct in the...

GLC07629

Collection Item

Document

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [American Revolution]

1776/05/27-06/01

GLC07630

Collection Item

Document

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]

1780/05/15-20

Quaker meeting regarding the conduct of church members. Written during the fifth Quaker month.

GLC07631

Collection Item

Document

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]

1781/06/04-09

GLC07632

Collection Item

Manuscript document

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

1765/09/14

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

GLC07654.12

Collection Item

Manuscript document

Circular letter to colonial governors re: suppression of rebellion

1765/10/24

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

GLC07654.13

Collection Item

Manuscript document

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

1765/12/15

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

GLC07654.14

Collection Item

Manuscript document

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

1765/12/15

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

GLC07654.15

Collection Item

Autograph manuscript

Notes from Treasury Council meetings

1764/12/11-1765/12/17

Grenville, George, 1753-1813

GLC07654.16

Collection Item

Manuscript document

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

1766/01 ca.

Lords Treasury Committee

GLC07654.17

Collection Item

Manuscript document

Resolutions of Lords Treasury Committee on American business

[1766]/02/04

Lords Treasury Committee

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...

GLC07654.18

Collection Item

Letter signed

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

1766/02/14

Sons of Liberty (New York, NY)

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

Collection Item

Manuscript document

Abstract of Proceedings in 1676 and 1677 in the case of Bacon's Rebellion

1766/02-04 ca.

GLC07654.20

Collection Item

Manuscript document

Considerations continued no. 2

1766/03 ca.

Knox, William, 1756-1795

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...

GLC07654.21

Collection Item

Manuscript document

Lords protest re: repeal of the Stamp Act

1766/03/17

Great Britain. Parliament.

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."...

GLC07654.22