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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... liberty can that people enjoy whose will is subjected to the absolute will of another , under the notion of regulat- ing it , whose industry is restricted by laws prohibiting them from exercising honest employmt & working up the raw ...
... liberty can that people enjoy whose will is subjected to the absolute will of another , under the notion of regulat- ing it , whose industry is restricted by laws prohibiting them from exercising honest employmt & working up the raw ...
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... Liberty movement of the Stamp Act period began , and in late October or early November they ap- pointed a group to correspond with the other colonies . There is no mistaking one purpose of this correspondence : " The Sons of Liberty of ...
... Liberty movement of the Stamp Act period began , and in late October or early November they ap- pointed a group to correspond with the other colonies . There is no mistaking one purpose of this correspondence : " The Sons of Liberty of ...
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... liberty of their country . . . . But when every man in the province , nay every man in America , who has liberty or property , is as much concerned in the event of this dispute as the merchants , we cannot but be surprized that the ...
... liberty of their country . . . . But when every man in the province , nay every man in America , who has liberty or property , is as much concerned in the event of this dispute as the merchants , we cannot but be surprized that the ...
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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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