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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... Legislature for an amendment of ; or do you know of any beneficial Law that is wanting ? Have you lately observed any encroachments on the just Liberties of the people ? " 23 The topics discussed during the years from 1758 to 1762 ...
... Legislature for an amendment of ; or do you know of any beneficial Law that is wanting ? Have you lately observed any encroachments on the just Liberties of the people ? " 23 The topics discussed during the years from 1758 to 1762 ...
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... legislature had to declare : " I do believe in one God the Creator and Governor of the Universe the Rewarder of the Good and Punisher of the Wicked . And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine ...
... legislature had to declare : " I do believe in one God the Creator and Governor of the Universe the Rewarder of the Good and Punisher of the Wicked . And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine ...
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... legislature is big with tyranny . " 62 One striking and lamentable - evidence of that " tyranny " was the attitude of the new Pennsylvania authorities toward the Quakers , who now became the objects of persecution within their own New ...
... legislature is big with tyranny . " 62 One striking and lamentable - evidence of that " tyranny " was the attitude of the new Pennsylvania authorities toward the Quakers , who now became the objects of persecution within their own New ...
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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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