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McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786 To the free and loyal inhabitants... [Defense of non-importation agreements]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02552 Author/Creator: McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786 Place Written: New York Type: Broadside Date: [1770/05/16] Pagination: 1 p. 31 x 19 cm Order a Copy

A short printed letter defending the non-importation agreements against Tory merchants. Signed "Brutus" but attributed to Alexander McDougall, because the manuscript was found in his personal papers. Evans 11588. Schlesinger's Colonial Merchants p. 220, Stokes's Iconography of Manhattan 4: 180.

McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786

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