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1829/02/16 ca.
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Draft response to notification of election as President
"I accept the office given me by the free & unbiased suffrage, of a virtuous people, with feelings of the highest gratitude."
GLC07657
1790/01/31
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Gov. Hancock re: praise for the Republican form of government
"The result of my reflections on republics are, that they are more productive of happiness, and an enlargement of the human mind, than any other sort of Government."
GLC07659
1822/08/18
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
to Sir Charles Morgan re: current political revolutions in Europe
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1783/03/12
Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813
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."
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1765/02/01
Rogers, Nathaniel, fl. 1765
to George Grenville re: the Stamp Act, a need for changes in colonial society
GLC07654.08
1765/02 ca.
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805
to George Grenville re: Colonial remonstrance against Molasses Act of 1733
He quotes: "'That the Complaint contained in the New England Memorial & Petition was frivolous & Groundless, an high Insult upon his Majesty's Government, & tending to shake off the dependency of the said Colony upon this Kingdom, to which by Law &...
GLC07654.09
1765/07/04
Grenville, George, 1753-1813
to King George III re: establishment of admiralty courts
With secretarial signatures of Grenville, Lord North and John Turner. Copy of a letter to King George III discussing the admiralty and vice admiralty courts, along with a description of three new courts at Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston.
GLC07654.10
1765/07/09
Great Britain. Treasury.
Treasury minutes re: Stamp Act revenue
"...[I]t is expected that a full Asembly will form very different Resolutions Such as may cement the Union, which alone can establish the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies and the Mother Country." Marked "Copy" on first page.
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1765/09/14
Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765
to Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier re: Va. House of Burgesses resolves on Stamp Act
GLC07654.12
1765/10/24
Circular letter to colonial governors re: suppression of rebellion
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