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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... Congress to expect him to translate communications in that language for official congressional consideration.20 If all these duties had filled the limits of Thomson's activities as secretary during his fifteen - year tenure he would be ...
... Congress to expect him to translate communications in that language for official congressional consideration.20 If all these duties had filled the limits of Thomson's activities as secretary during his fifteen - year tenure he would be ...
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... Congress . They would not have disagreed with the words of a British officer , written in a different context , that many members of Congress were the " Brisk puppets of the Philadelphia scene . " 128 Congress itself had been all too ...
... Congress . They would not have disagreed with the words of a British officer , written in a different context , that many members of Congress were the " Brisk puppets of the Philadelphia scene . " 128 Congress itself had been all too ...
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... Congress and , by definition , his own position in Congress was threatened - worked unstintingly for the change . He and Hamilton appear to have been on good terms from the time when the twenty - seven - year - old from New York had ...
... Congress and , by definition , his own position in Congress was threatened - worked unstintingly for the change . He and Hamilton appear to have been on good terms from the time when the twenty - seven - year - old from New York had ...
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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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