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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... claim , that at this con- ference Teedyuscung “ established himself at the Head of five Tribes , " totally incomprehensible.57 Actually , Thomson himself had not yet arrived when the meeting began on 7 October , but Teedyuscung did not ...
... claim , that at this con- ference Teedyuscung “ established himself at the Head of five Tribes , " totally incomprehensible.57 Actually , Thomson himself had not yet arrived when the meeting began on 7 October , but Teedyuscung did not ...
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... claim that in the October elections the opponents of Royal government carried the province's Presbyterians " to a man " ? 55 Yet all these arguments are circumstantial and avoid the one piece of concrete evidence about Thomson's ...
... claim that in the October elections the opponents of Royal government carried the province's Presbyterians " to a man " ? 55 Yet all these arguments are circumstantial and avoid the one piece of concrete evidence about Thomson's ...
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... claim has been resurrected , without substantiation , by J. Edwin Hendricks , Charles Thomson and the Making of a New Nation , 1729-1824 ( Rutherford , N.J .; Farleigh Dickinson University Press , 1979 ) , 16. It is clear that claims ...
... claim has been resurrected , without substantiation , by J. Edwin Hendricks , Charles Thomson and the Making of a New Nation , 1729-1824 ( Rutherford , N.J .; Farleigh Dickinson University Press , 1979 ) , 16. It is clear that claims ...
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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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