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Extracts from the proceedings of the High Court of Vice-Admiralty, in Charlestown, South-Carolina, upon six several informations, adjudged by the Honourable Egerton Leigh, Esq; sole judge of that court, and His Majesty's attorney-general in the said province, in the years 176 and 1768. With explanatory remarks, &c. And copies of two extraordinary oaths. To which are subjoined, recapitulation, reflections arising from a retrospect of a late case, and some general observations on American custom-house officers, and Courts of Vice-Admiralty.
Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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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.
Date: 1775]- Books
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The American querist: or, Some questions proposed relative to the present disputes between Great Britain, and her American colonies. By a North-American. [Two lines from Bishop Berkley]
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 1726-1790.Date: 1774- Books
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America's appeal to the impartial world. Wherein the rights of the Americans, as men, British subjects, and as colonists; the equity of the demand, and of the manner in which it is made upon them by Great-Britain, are stated and considered. And, the opposition made by the colonies to acts of Parliament, their resorting to arms in their necessary defence, against the military armaments, employed to enforce them, vindicated. [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Mather, Moses, 1719-1806.Date: 1775- Books
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A letter to the landholders of the county of Wilts, on the alarming state of the poor.
Date: [1793]- Books
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Historical and political reflections on the rise and progress of the American rebellion. In which The Causes of that Rebellion are pointed out, and the Policy and Necessity of offering to the Americans a System of Government founded in the Principles of the British Constitution, are clearly demonstrated. By the author of Letters to a nobleman, on the conduct of the American war.
Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The American revolution : a constitutional interpretation / by Charles Howard McIlwain.
McIlwain, Charles Howard, 1871-1968Date: 1923- Books
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A few political reflections submitted to the consideration of the British colonies, by a citizen of Philadelphia.
Wells, Richard.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Observations on several Acts of Parliament, passed in the fourth, sixth and seventh years of his present Majesty's reign. Published by the merchants of Boston.
Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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A proclamation for a public thanksgiving. ... Thursday the twenty-third day of November instant ... Given under our hands at the Council-chamber, in Watertown, this fourth day of November ...
Massachusetts. Council.Date: M,DCC,LXXV [1775]- Books
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The empire of reason : how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment / Henry Steele Commager.
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998Date: 1977- Books
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Case of Great Britain and America, addressed to the King, and both Houses of Parliament. [Three lines of quotation]
Bushe, Gervase Parker, 1744?-1793.Date: [1769]- Books
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A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March 1770. By Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment, which with the XIVth Regiment were then quartered there: with some observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. To which is added, an appendix, containing The several Depositions referred to in the preceding Narrative; and also other Depositions relative to the Subject of it.
Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present disputes with America. By an old Member of Parliament.
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVI [1776]- Books
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The Englishman deceived; a political piece: wherein some very important secrets of state are briefly recited, and offered to the considerarion [sic] of the public. [Two lines in Latin]
Sayre, Stephen, 1736-1818.Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Copy of letters sent to Great-Britain, by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and several other persons, born and educated among us. Which original letters have been returned to America, and laid before the Honorble [sic] House of Representatives of this province. In which (notwithstanding His Excellency's declaration to the House, that the tendency and design of them was not to subvert the Constitution, but rather to preserve it entire) the judicious reader will discover the fatal source of the confusion and bloodshed in which this province especially has been involved, and which threatned [sic] total destruction to the liberties of all America.
Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780.Date: 1773- Books
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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.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A collection of the most valuable tracts, which appeared during the years 1763, 1764, and 1765, upon the subjects of general warrants, Publication of Libels, Seizure of Papers, and other Constitutional Points, which arose out of the case of Mr. Wilkes.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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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, fastin and prayer ...
Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.Date: 1775]- Books
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Observations on the American Revolution, published according to a resolution of Congress, by their committee. For the consideration of those who are desirous of comparing the conduct of the opposed parties, and the several consequences which have flowed from it.
United States. Continental Congress.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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A sermon, containing Scriptural instructions to civil rulers, and all free-born subjects. In which the principles of sound policy and good government are established and vindicated; and some doctrines advanced and zealously propagated by New-England Tories, are considere and refuted. Delivered on the public fast, August 31, 1774. With an address to the freemen of the colony. By Samuel Sherwood, A.M. Pastor of a church of Christ in Fairfield. Also, an appendix, stating the heavy grievances the colonies labour under from several late acts of the British Parliament, and shewing what we have just reason to expect the consequences of these measures will be. By the Rev. Ebenezer Baldwin, of Danbury. [Five lines of quotations]
Sherwood, Samuel, 1730-1783.Date: [1774]- Books
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A letter to the landed gentlemen and graziers of Lincolnshire: In which are pointed out the principal Causes of the present Redundancy of Wool, and the Exportation of it, proved to be impolitic and dangerous; together, with the Proposal of a more safe and certain Remedy. Occasioned by, and interspersed with Observations upon, Sir John Dalrymple's Question on that Subject. By a Friend and Neighbour.
Date: 1782- Books
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Lettre adressée aux habitans de la province de Quebec, ci-devant le Canada. De la part du Congrés Général de l'Amérique Septentrionale, tenu à Philadelphie. Imprimé & publié par ordre du Congrès,
United States. Continental Congress.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A Letter from a Virginian to the members of the Congress to be held at Philadelphia, on the first of September, 1774.
Date: 1774- Books
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Observations: on the reconciliation of Great-Britain and the colonies. By a friend of American liberty. [Three lines of quotations]
Green, Jacob, 1722-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]