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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... committee was to throw itself tirelessly into correspondence . Not only did they exchange several letters with a sympathetic merchants committee in London , but they devoted themselves to securing a united colonial front . Only four ...
... committee was to throw itself tirelessly into correspondence . Not only did they exchange several letters with a sympathetic merchants committee in London , but they devoted themselves to securing a united colonial front . Only four ...
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... committee of forty - four members chosen at the mass rally in June , the committee of which Thomson still was secretary . This group met on 2 November and issued a call for a mass meeting to elect a new committee that would , naturally ...
... committee of forty - four members chosen at the mass rally in June , the committee of which Thomson still was secretary . This group met on 2 November and issued a call for a mass meeting to elect a new committee that would , naturally ...
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... committee were added “ such a number of new members as to give a decided majority in favour of the measures now agreed on . " CT to Ramsay , LC . See NY Colls 224 . 68. [ Minutes of the Committee at Philadalphia , 20 June - 11 July 1774 ] ...
... committee were added “ such a number of new members as to give a decided majority in favour of the measures now agreed on . " CT to Ramsay , LC . See NY Colls 224 . 68. [ Minutes of the Committee at Philadalphia , 20 June - 11 July 1774 ] ...
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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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