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- A Genuine letter from a well-known patriot at St. James's, to his friend in Boston, relative to the present distracted state of American affairs : Dated London, November 28, 1774
- A Short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston : perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770, by soldiers of the 29th regiment, which with the 14th regiment were then quartered there : with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe
- A collection of interesting, authentic papers : relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America : showing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding, from 1764 to 1775
- A decent respect to the opinions of mankind : Congressional State papers, 1774-1776
- A declaration by the representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in general Congress at Philadelphia, seting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms
- A letter from General Lee, to General Burgoyne, dated June 7, 1775 ; received at Boston, July 5 : printed from the New-York gazetteer, July 6 .
- A letter from a merchant in London to his nephew in North America, relative to the present posture of affairs in the colonies : in which the supposed violation of charters, and the several grievances complained of, are particularly discussed, and the consequences of an attempt towards independency set in a true light
- A new essay (by the Pennsylvanian farmer) on the constitutional power of Great-Britain over the colonies in America : with the resolves of the committee for the province of Pennsylvania, and their instructions to their representatives in assembly
- A sermon preached at Cambridge before His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, esq. Governor, His Honor Andrew Oliver, esq. Lieutenant-Governor, the honorable His Majesty's Council, and the honorable House of Representatives, of the province the the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 27th 1772 : being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for said province
- A sermon preached before His Excellency Francis Bernard, esq. Governor, His Honor Thomas Hutchinson, esq. Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable His Majesty's Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 27th, 1767 : being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the province
- A speech intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charters of the colony of Massachusett's Bay
- American independence, the interest and glory of Great Britain : containing arguments which prove, that not only in taxation, but in trade, manufactures and government, the colonies are entitled to an entire independency on the British legislature : and that it can only be by a formal declaration of these rights, and forming thereupon a friendly league with them that the true and lasting welfare of both countries can be promoted : in a series of letters to the legislature
- An humble enquiry into the nature of the dependency of the American colonies upon the Parliament of Great-Britain, and the right of Parliament to lay taxes on the said colonies.
- Aspects of Anglo-American relations
- Aspects of Anglo-American relations
- At a General Meeting of deputies of the inhabitants of this Province at New Bern the 25th day of August, Anno Dom 1774
- Boston, April 9, 1773 : Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of this town have received the following intelligence .
- Boston, June 22d, 1773 : Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of the town of Boston, conformable to that duty which they have hitherto endeavoured to discharge with fidelity, again address you with a very fortunate important discovery ; and cannot but express their grateful sentiments in having obtained the approbation of so large a majority of the towns in this colony .
- Boston, March 30th, 1773 : By direction of the Committee of Correspondence for the town of Boston, I now transmit to you an attested copy of the proceedings of said town on the 8th instant ... [blank] clerk of the committee
- British subministers and colonial America, 1763-1783
- Burke's speeches and letters on American affairs
- By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor of the English colony of Connecticut ... A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer : ... Wednesday the seventeenth day of January next ... Given under my hand in the Council chamber in New-Haven, the nineteenth day of December ... 1775
- Civil liberty asserted : and the rights of the subject defended, against the anarchial principles of Dr. Price : in which his sophistical reasonings, dangerous tenets, and principles of false patriotism, contained in his Observationson civil liberty, &c. are exposed and refuted, in a letter to a gentleman in the country
- Committee-chamber, July 19, 1774 : Proceedings of the Committee of Correspondence
- Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes in the British colonies : for the purpose of raising a revenue, by act of Parliament
- Die Repräsentanten der Vereinigten Staaten von America, im Congress versammlet, an das Volk überhaupt, und an die Einwohner Pennsylvaniens und der angrenzenden Staaten insbesondere
- Empire and nation
- Essays commercial and political, on the real and relative interests of imperial and dependent states, particularly those of Great Britain and her dependencies : displaying the probable causes of, and a mode of compromising the present disputes between this country and her American colonies : to which is added, an appendix, on the means of emancipating slaves, without loss to their proprietors
- Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774 : containing, the bill of rights, a list of grievances, occasional resolves, the association, an address to the people of Great Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitatants of the British American colonies
- Forced founders : Indians, debtors, slaves, and the making of the American Revolution in Virginia
- Franklin before the Privy council
- From resistance to revolution : colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776
- Fundamental law and the American Revolution, 1760-1776
- Fundamental law and the American revolution, 1760-1776
- In Congress. December 6, 1775 : We the delegates of the thirteen united colonies in North America have taken into our most serious consideration a proclamation issued from the Court of St. James's on the twenty-third day of August last. .
- In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 6, 1774. : the operation of the cruel and iniquitous Boston-port-bill, that instrument of ministerial vengeance, having reduced our once happy capital ... It is therefore resolved, that it be recommended to our constituents the inhabitants of the other towns ... that they farther contribute liberally to alleviate the burden .
- In Provincial Congress, Concord, April 15, 1775 : Whereas it has pleased the righteous Sovereign of the Universe, in just indignation against the sins of a people ... Resolved ... that Thursday the eleventh day of May next be set apart as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer .
- In Provincial Congress, Exeter, June 6, 1775 : Whereas it has pleased the righteous Governor of the World to permit evil men, on both sides of the Atlantick, to ripen their plots against the liberties of America into violence ... Resolved ... that Thursday the twenty-second day of this instant, be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer .
- In the midst of a revolution
- John Dickinson and the revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764-1776
- John Dickinson, conservative revolutionary
- Novanglus, and Massachusettensis, or, Political essays : published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies
- Novanglus, and Massachusettensis, or, Political essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies
- Novanglus, and Massachusettensis, or, Political essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies
- Observations on the nature of civil liberty : the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America : to which is added an appendix, containing a state of the national debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the public by the taxes, and an account of the national income and expenditure since the last war
- Observations on the nature of civil liberty : the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America : to which is added, an appendix, and postscript, containing, a state of the national debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the public by the taxes, and an account of the national income and expenditure since the last war
- Observations, on Mr. Justice Livingston's address to the House of Assembly, in support of his right to a seat
- On Tuesday night arrived in this city a gentleman, who came express from Boston, with the following interesting intelligence .
- Origin of the American Revolution, 1759-1766
- Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, July 15, 1774. At a legal town-meeting held this day, the following was unanimously recommended to both sexes, as very necessary and expedient at this time : Whereas the importation, sale and consumption of any East-India teas, at this particular time, is productive of consequences fatal to ourselves and our posterity .
- Slave nation : how slavery united the colonies and sparked the American Revolution
- Sources and documents illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788 : and the formation of the Federal Constitution
- Tea party to independence : the third phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776
- The American Revolution : a constitutional interpretation
- The American Revolution : writings from the pamphlet debate
- The American crisis. : Let God, and the world judge between us
- The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution
- The Stamp Act crisis : prologue to revolution
- The Stamp-Act repealed : a sermon, preached in the meeting at Savannah in Georgia, June 25th, 1766
- The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution
- The address of Mr. Justice Livingston, to the House of Assembly, in support of his right to a seat
- The causes and character of the American revolution
- The causes of the War of Independence
- The clamor of lawyers : the American Revolution and crisis in the legal profession
- The colonial background of the American Revolution : four essays in American colonial history
- The colonial background of the American Revolution : four essays in American colonial history
- The colonial merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776
- The colonial merchants and the American revolution, 1763-1776
- The coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775
- The controversy between Great Britain and her colonies reviewed : the several pleas of the colonies, in support of their right to all the liberties and privileges of British subjects, and to exemption from the legislative authority of Parliament, stated and considered; and the nature of their connection with, and dependence on, Great Britain, shewn, upon the evidence of historical facts and authentic records
- The debate on the American Revolution, 1761-1783 ; : a sourcebook
- The humble address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, presented to His Majesty, on Thursday, December 1, 1774 : with His Majesty's most gracious answer
- The ideological origins of the American Revolution
- The justice and policy of taxing the American colonies, in Great-Britain, considered. : Wherein is shewed, that the colonists are not a conquered people:--That they are constitutionally intituled to be taxed only by their own consent:--And that the imposing a stamp-duty on the colonists is as impolitic as it is inconsistent with their rights. Non Sibi Sed Patrize
- The late regulations respecting the British colonies on the continent of America considered : in a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in London
- The objections to the taxation of our American colonies : by the legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider?d
- The preliminaries of the American Revolution as seen in the English press, 1763-1775
- The regulations lately made concerning the colonies : and the taxes imposed upon them, considered
- The regulations lately made concerning the colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, considered
- The representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, to the people in general, and particularly to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and the adjacent states
- The rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America : being an answer to the declaration of the General Congress
- The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved
- The spirit of '76 : the growth of American patriotism before independence
- The vice-admiralty courts and the American Revolution
- Three letters to Dr. Price containing remarks on his Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America
- To the freeholders and gentlemen, of Baltimore County : Gentlemen, On Tuesday last we received by (express) a letter from the Committee of Correspondence at Philadelphia .
- To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, As a report prevails, that the ship Beulah, is destined for Halifax, I have perused the association of the Congress, in order to satisfy myself, whether her going there, will be conformable to their intention: I think it will not .
- To the inhabitants of New-York, and all the British colonies. New-York, 20th April 1775 : the following very interesting accounts were yesterday received by the snow Gen. Johnson, Capt. Dean, in 31 days from England .
- To the people of New-York. : Though the association lately set on foot, was on pretence of keeping the peace of the city, yet it is evident that it has a direct tendency to disturb that peace .
- To the respectable inhabitants of the city of New-York : Friends and fellow citizens! On the 23d day of May 1774, the Committee of Correspondence wrote a letter to Boston, in which are these remarkable passages. .
- Tract V : the respective pleas and arguments of the mother country, and of the colonies, distinctly set forth, and the impossibility of a compromise of differences, or a mutual concession of rights plainly demonstrated : with a prefatory epistle to the plenipotentiaries of the late congress at Philadelphia
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