Charles Thomson: A Patriot's PursuitUniversity of Delaware Press, 1990 - 325 páginas A comprehensive interpretive biography of Charles Thomson (1729-1824). influential Philadelphia merchant during the 1760s and secretary to the Continental Congress for all of its fifteen years. Thomson's political enemies were numerous, and his political ideals were influenced by his own quest for personal recognition and financial security. |
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... Boston has begun . . . . Is there anything in the Name of the Stamp - Act , that ought to make it more reasonable to oppose that , than to oppose this ? ... Let us not ... by Lukewarmness , Self - Interest , or Disaffection to the ...
... Boston has begun . . . . Is there anything in the Name of the Stamp - Act , that ought to make it more reasonable to oppose that , than to oppose this ? ... Let us not ... by Lukewarmness , Self - Interest , or Disaffection to the ...
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... Boston resistance leaders were active during the spring , tightening the lines of intercolonial communication . Thomson's counterpart , as secretary to the Boston committee - William Palfrey- had been in Philadelphia in December . Now ...
... Boston resistance leaders were active during the spring , tightening the lines of intercolonial communication . Thomson's counterpart , as secretary to the Boston committee - William Palfrey- had been in Philadelphia in December . Now ...
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... Boston . It is clear that by now the resistance leaders were pinning their hopes on united colonial action through the means of a congress : an intercolonial con- gress " would be [ the plan ] most agreeable to the people of this ...
... Boston . It is clear that by now the resistance leaders were pinning their hopes on united colonial action through the means of a congress : an intercolonial con- gress " would be [ the plan ] most agreeable to the people of this ...
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List of Illustrations | 11 |
Since I Have Concerned in Trade | 47 |
Conscious of the Purity of My Intentions and Uprightness | 72 |
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appointed April APS Mss Arthur Lee assembly August Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Rush Boston British Burnett Charles Thomson Church Colls colonies Continental Congress copy Correspondence County CT to Drayton CT to Hannah CT to John CT to TJ Daybook Deborah Logan's December Delaware delegates delphia early elected February governor Gratz Hannah Thomson Harriton Historical Society History House ibid Indian affairs January Jefferson John Adams John Dickinson John Jay John Thomson Joseph Galloway Joseph Reed Journal July June land letter Liberty Logan Papers London Maghera March meeting merchants Mifflin Minutes nonimportation November October Papers of BF Penn Pennsylvania Archives Pennsylvania Gazette Phila Philadelphia Philadelphia committee PMHB Presbyterian Princeton printed Proprietors province Quakers Ramsay Revolution Robert Morris Samuel secretary September Smith Stamp Act Teedyuscung Thom Thomas Thomson and Dickinson Thomson wrote tion TJ to CT University Press Virginia Watson William Franklin York
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