Subject• | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
(3)
| • | Abolitionists. |
(1)
| • | Advance (Brig) |
(1)
| • | Africa, West -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | African American churches |
(1)
| • | African Americans -- Religion |
(1)
| • | Algebra. |
(1)
| • | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
(1)
| • | American Colonization Society |
(1)
| • | American Philosophical Society |
(1)
| • | American loyalists. |
(2)
| • | Anishinaabe |
(1)
| • | Annuities. |
(1)
| • | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Archaeology -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration |
(1)
| • | Art -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Astronomy. |
(1)
| • | Aurora (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
(1)
| • | Balloons -- Early works to 1800 |
(1)
| • | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
(1)
| • | Biology, genetics, eugenics |
(1)
| • | Botanists |
(1)
| • | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century |
(1)
| • | Botany -- Virginia |
(1)
| • | Botany. |
(1)
| • | Boundaries, State. |
(1)
| • | Boundary disputes. |
(1)
| • | Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 |
(1)
| • | Business and politics -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| • | Canals. |
(2)
| • | Chemistry |
(1)
| • | Chemistry -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Cherokee Indians |
(1)
| • | Cherokee language |
(1)
| • | Choctaw Indians |
(1)
| • | Civil engineering -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Clocks and watches. |
(1)
| • | Coal. |
(1)
| • | Colonization, repatriation |
(1)
| • | Commerce. |
(2)
| • | Court calendars -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| • | Creek Indians |
(1)
| • | Culture, community, organizations |
(1)
| • | Delaware Indians |
(2)
| • | Dinosaurs -- New Jersey |
(1)
| • | Drawing. |
(1)
| • | Dysentery. |
(1)
| • | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
(1)
| • | Electricity -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 |
(1)
| • | Electricity. |
(1)
| • | Engineering. |
(1)
| • | Ethics -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1850 |
(1)
| • | Ethnobotany |
(1)
| • | Fishing -- America |
(1)
| • | Fort Augusta (Pa.) |
(1)
| • | Fort Duquesne |
(1)
| • | Fort Granville (Pa.) |
(1)
| • | Fort Hunter |
(1)
| • | Fort Pitt (Pa.) |
(1)
| • | Fort William Henry (N.Y.) |
(1)
| • | Fortification -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| • | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 |
(1)
| • | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
(1)
| • | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787 |
(1)
| • | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Geology -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Geology -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Gout |
(1)
| • | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789 |
(1)
| • | Harvard College |
(1)
| • | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 |
(1)
| • | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 |
(1)
| • | Howard, John, 1726-1790 |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America |
(3)
| • | Indians of North America -- Agriculture |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- Languages |
(2)
| • | Indians of North America -- Louisiana |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Government relations -- To 1789 |
(1)
| • | Inoculation |
(1)
| • | Insurance agents -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Iroquois Indians |
(2)
| • | Italy -- Description and travel -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Jackson, Andrew -- 1767-1845 -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| • | Judges -- New Jersey. |
(1)
| • | Kaigana Indians |
(1)
| • | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 |
(1)
| • | Kaskaskia Indians |
(1)
| • | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison |
(1)
| • | Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History |
(2)
| • | Land speculation |
(3)
| • | Legal instruments -- New Jersey. |
(1)
| • | Lexington, Battle of, 1775 |
(1)
| • | Life expectancy |
(1)
| • | Linguistics. |
(1)
| • | Locomotives. |
(1)
| • | Louisiana Purchase -- Enclopedias. |
(1)
| • | Lyceums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
(1)
| • | Magnetism. |
(1)
| • | Mammals -- Classification |
(1)
| • | Mandan Indians |
(1)
| • | Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 |
(1)
| • | Mastodons |
(1)
| • | Materia medica |
(1)
| • | Mathematics. |
(1)
| • | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Medicine, Military. |
(1)
| • | Medicine. |
(2)
| • | Mesmerism |
(2)
| • | Meteorology -- Observations. |
(1)
| • | Meteorology -- Pennsylvania -- Observations |
(1)
| • | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Meteors |
(1)
| • | Miami Indians |
(1)
| • | Military history, Modern -- 18th century. |
(1)
| • | Military supplies. |
(2)
| • | Mineralogy |
(1)
| • | Moravian Indians |
(1)
| • | Moravians -- Pennsylvania -- History |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- 19th century |
(1)
| • | Natural history. |
(1)
| • | Navigation (Astronautics) |
(1)
| • | New York Prison Association |
(1)
| • | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
(1)
| • | Non-importation agreements, 1768-1769 |
(2)
| • | Ojibwa Indians |
(1)
| • | Optics. |
(1)
| • | Osage Indians |
(1)
| • | Osage language |
(1)
| • | Ottawa Indians |
(1)
| • | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 19th century |
(1)
| • | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
(1)
| • | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 |
(2)
| • | Pennsylvania Supreme Court |
(1)
| • | Pensions -- Massachusetts |
(1)
| • | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce |
(1)
| • | Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century |
(1)
| • | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons |
(1)
| • | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
(1)
| • | Physics |
(1)
| • | Physics. |
(1)
| • | Plains Indians |
(1)
| • | Planetariums. |
(1)
| • | Plants. |
(1)
| • | Portraits, American. |
(1)
| • | Postal service -- United States |
(1)
| • | Postal service -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Presidents -- United States -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| • | Printers -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Prisons |
(1)
| • | Prisons -- Design and construction |
(1)
| • | Prisons -- New York (State) |
(1)
| • | Prisons -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Quarries and quarrying -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| • | Quartermasters -- United States |
(1)
| • | Race, race relations, racism |
(1)
| • | Real property -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| • | Reformers -- Pennsylvania |
(1)
| • | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 |
(1)
| • | Science -- United States -- 18th century. |
(1)
| • | Scientific apparatus and instruments. |
(1)
| • | Seeds. |
(1)
| • | Seminole Indians |
(1)
| • | Seneca Indians |
(1)
| • | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763. |
(1)
| • | Shippenburg Library Company |
(1)
| • | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. |
(1)
| • | Slavery -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Slavery. |
(2)
| • | Slaves, slavery, slave trade |
(2)
| • | Smallpox |
(1)
| • | Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 |
(1)
| • | Smith, Isaac, 1744-1817 |
(1)
| • | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform |
(3)
| • | Sons of Liberty |
(1)
| • | Sound. |
(1)
| • | Stamp Act, 1765 |
(3)
| • | Sugar. |
(1)
| • | Taxation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
(1)
| • | Taxation. |
(1)
| • | Tea tax (American colonies) |
(1)
| • | Technology. |
(1)
| • | Time clocks. |
(1)
| • | Trapping -- America. |
(1)
| • | Tuscarora Indians |
(1)
| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
(1)
| • | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 |
(2)
| • | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 |
(1)
| • | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Religious aspects |
(1)
| • | United States -- Politics and government, 1783-1788 |
(1)
| • | United States. Army. Supplies and stores |
(1)
| • | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty |
(1)
| • | Venereal disease |
(1)
| • | Wallam olum |
(1)
| • | Washington, George, 1732-1799 |
(1)
| • | Wilson, John Wall |
(1)
| • | Wine and wine making |
(1)
| • | Yellow fever |
(1)
| • | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 |
(1)
| • | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century. |
(1)
| • | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
(1)
| • | Zoology -- 18th century |
(1)
| • | Zoology. |
(1)
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| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | Abstract: | The extensive Benjamin Smith Barton collection contains six sections: Correspondence, Bound Volumes (including notebooks), Subject Files, and Graphic Materials. The material includes numerous images, sketches, notes, printed material, and other correspondence. The collection also has numerous copper plates that were used to print images drawn by Barton. Although a collection this large touches on a variety of interesting and important subjects, the collection's strength is its wealth of data on nineteenth century medical, botanical, and Native American studies.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | Extent: | 10 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | Business and Skilled Trades | Education | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Medicine | Native America | Natural history | Printing and Publishing | Science and technology | Travel | | | Genre: | Art | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Language Material | Notebooks | Political Correspondence | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | | | Subjects: | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Botanists | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century | Botany -- Virginia | Chemistry -- 18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Dysentery. | Electricity -- 18th century | Ethnobotany | Geology -- 18th century | Gout | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Agriculture | Indians of North America -- Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Mammals -- Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | Osage language | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Physics | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty | Venereal disease | Yellow fever | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 | Zoology -- 18th century | |
| Author: | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Burd-Shippen Papers
| | | Dates: | 1708-1792 | | | Abstract: | This collection is one of the largest early American collections the APS holds. Its breadth of sources provides insight into colonial Pennsylvania history, especially that of Lancaster County. Although largely material composed of material from James Burd, there are also significant documents relating to the Shippen family. Documents touch on matters financial, political, and social. While the collection is of wide ranging material, its strength lies in three main parts: the Seven Years' War and Pontiac's Rebellion in Pennsylvania, Burd's business records, and life in Lancaster County from 1754-1776.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.B892 | | | Extent: | 6.5 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | Business and Skilled Trades | Colonial Politics | Government Affairs | Land and Speculation | Military History | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Seven Years' War | Surveying and Maps | Trade | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Diaries | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Miscellaneous | Official Government Documents and Records | Political Correspondence | Travel Narratives and Journals | | | Subjects: | Court calendars -- Pennsylvania. | Fort Augusta (Pa.) | Fort Duquesne | Fort Granville (Pa.) | Fort Hunter | Fort Pitt (Pa.) | Fort William Henry (N.Y.) | Fortification -- Pennsylvania. | Iroquois Indians | Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History | Meteorology -- Pennsylvania -- Observations | Military supplies. | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce | Shippenburg Library Company | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States. Army. Supplies and stores | |
| Author: | Cadwalader, Lambert | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Lambert Cadwalader Papers
| | | Dates: | 1779-1798 | | | Abstract: | This collection of letters, while tiny, is actually quite rich in content. Cadwalader wrote to Samuel Meredith, a politician and fellow Revolutionary War soldier, concerning the war, his real estate holdings in Philadelphia, and the local political climate. The seven items are dated from October 5, 1779 to March 9, 1798, during which Cadwalader served in the military, reentered politics, got married, and then retired from public service.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.C625.1 | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Business and Skilled Trades | Land and Speculation | Philadelphia History | | | Genre: | General Correspondence | Political Correspondence | | | Subjects: | Inoculation | Smallpox | Taxation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | |
| Author: | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865
| | | Dates: | 1840-1865 | | | Abstract: | The William Parker Foulke Collection is one of the largest and richest collections at the APS. The collection, described and inventories in depth in MOLE, reflects the wide and varied interests of one of Philadelphia's most prominent 19th century citizens.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.F826 | | | Extent: | 3.75 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | Law | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Science and technology | | | Genre: | General Correspondence | Legal Records | Literature | Manuscript Essays | Miscellaneous | Political Correspondence | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West -- Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Archaeology -- Pennsylvania | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs -- New Jersey | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Lyceums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Mesmerism | New York Prison Association | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania | Prisons -- Design and construction | Prisons -- New York (State) | Prisons -- Pennsylvania | Reformers -- Pennsylvania | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Wilson, John Wall | |
| Author: | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Benjamin Franklin Papers, 1642-1841
| | | Dates: | 1642-1841 | | | Abstract: | The Papers of Benjamin Franklin are a rich source as varied and expansive as Dr. Franklin's storied life. The Collection has been calendared, catalogued, and much of it is transcribed in printed volumes and online at www.franklinpapers.org.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.F85 | | | Extent: | 85.5 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Business and Skilled Trades | Diplomatic History | Government Affairs | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Marriage and Family Life | Military History | Pennsylvania History | Printing and Publishing | Social Life and Custom | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Diplomatic Material | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Manuscript Essays | Political Correspondence | Printed Material | Scientific Correspondence | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 | Postal service -- United States | Printers -- Pennsylvania | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | |
| Author: | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | William Temple Franklin Papers
| | | Dates: | 1775-1819 | | | Abstract: | This is a large collection of William Temple Franklin papers, most of which were written while he was serving alongside his grandfather in France as the secretary of the American mission there. The bulk of the collection is correspondence written to William Temple Franklin during the American Revolution. Franklin had a wide network of friends and associates, and this correspondence captures the range of dealings Franklin had in France. As secretary, he received intelligence, requests, reports of military actions, especially those pertaining to naval actions in the Atlantic, and various other communications. As a private individual, Franklin had relations with many merchants, traders, and land speculators and continued to cultivate these relationships while in Europe. The Collection also includes a diary kept in an almanac for much of 1785, catalogued separately in MOLE.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.F86 | | | Extent: | 4.75 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Business and Skilled Trades | Diplomatic History | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Marriage and Family Life | Military History | | | Genre: | Business Records and Accounts | Diplomatic Material | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Political Correspondence | | | Subjects: | Balloons -- Early works to 1800 | Mesmerism | |
| Author: | Great Britain. Board of Trade | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Papers on the West Indies, 1707-1709
| | | Dates: | 1707-1709 | | | Abstract: | This Collection is a series of letters written during Queen Anne's War/The War of Spanish Succession between 1707 and 1709 involving military, political, and trade issues in the British Caribbean. Documents include a petition from merchants in Barbados to the Crown, orders from imperial ministers in Whitehall to governors, and reports from governors in the Caribbean. The documents often relate to events surrounding the war then engulfing Europe. One of the documents, for instance, is a finding of the Board of Trade that rejects a petition that would allow merchants to ship flour from North American colonies to Portugal, a member of the "Grand Alliance," finding that such trade would hurt the "Sugar Islands" too much.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.972.9.G81 | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | Colonial Politics | Government Affairs | International Affairs | Military History | | | Genre: | Official Government Documents and Records | Political Correspondence | |
| Author: | Hazard, Ebenezer, 1744-1817 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Ebenezer Hazard papers, 1766-1813
| | | Dates: | 1766-1813 | | | Abstract: | The Ebenezer Hazard Collection contains a range of documents relating to the early history and establishment of the postal service in the new American nation. Ebenezer Hazard was a New Yorker who served as a deputy postmaster general during the American Revolution and early republic.Included in the collection are two letters from Benjamin Franklin, one appointing him to the post and another advising him to quickly establish a post to Albany. There are a series of military passes issued to Hazard, lending insight into how the postal service operated during the war years. Other correspondents include Thomas Jefferson, who wrote a letter to Hazard in 1775 endorsing a proposed public papers project, and George Washington, who corresponded with Hazard as General of the Army during the war and as President.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.H338 | | | Extent: | 1 volume(s) | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Government Affairs | Military History | | | Genre: | Institutional Records | Military Records | Official Government Documents and Records | Political Correspondence | | | Subjects: | Postal service -- United States. | |
| Author: | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Thomas Jefferson, letters to and from various persons, 1791-1840
| | | Dates: | 1791-1840 | | | Abstract: | This is a particularly rich collection of Thomas Jefferson's letters from his retirement years. The letters primarily cover the years 1813-1820s, although there are some from earlier. Most of the letters are outgoing, and L. H. Girardin is the primary recipient. The letters to Girardin often discuss Virginia's history and sometimes Jefferson's own recollections of events, including letters on Virginia during the American Revolution and a supposed attempt to create a dictatorship in Virginia in 1776. Some letters also convey information on contemporary events and offer a window into Jefferson's personal and family life. A few letters from 1791 discuss Jefferson's memory of Benjamin Franklin, including anecdotes of Franklin in France. One document is a draft of a profile of Baron Humboldt. A series of letters to Peter Du Ponceau discuss Thomas Jefferson's attempt to acquire a copy of William Byrd's "A Secret History of the Line" and, once acquired, his interpretation of it. Another portion discusses the journals of Lewis and Clark.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.J35.Le | | | Extent: | 63 item(s) | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Colony and State Specific History | Exploration. | Native America | War of 1812 | | | Genre: | General Correspondence | Political Correspondence | |
| Author: | Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Richard Henry Lee Papers
| | | Dates: | 1766-1823 | | | Abstract: | This collection of Richard Henry Lee correspondence is most notable for its rich content relating to the movement for Independence, military matters during the war, and the politics of ratification and the early republic. Because much of the correspondence is incoming, the letters offer insight into a wide range of other topics – and snapshots of events happening in areas beyond Lee's home state of Virginia. Frequent correspondents during the revolutionary era include John Dickinson, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Rush, and George Washington, among others. Almost all of these letters contain discussions of politics that offer significant insight into the letter writer's political thought and rich details on events happening throughout British America. Among Rush's correspondence is a series of letters written following the Battle of Princeton that relate the treatment Rush administered to a Hugh Mercer, who later died of his wounds.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.L51 | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | American Revolution | Early National Politics | Military History | | | Genre: | Political Correspondence | | | Subjects: | Non-importation agreements, 1768-1769 | Stamp Act, 1765 | |
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