- GLC#
- GLC02509.01-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 11 November 1702
- Author/Creator
- Stevenson, Thomas, fl. 1702
- Title
- to Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury
- Place Written
- New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 19 cm
- PDF Download(s)
- PDF of image and transcript
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
Signed by J. Rodman, Thomas Stevenson, John Way and William Bickley. Written by a group of New York Quakers "to the Governor." Contains a petition on the deprivation of voting rights for the members of the House of Representatives in Queens County and the Island of Nassau, as well as a complaint about unfair taxation. Cornbury was governor of New York and New Jersey from 1701 to 1708.
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