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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... governors he sent to the province to operate under secret instructions . Most of these instructions were motivated by ... governor : " You are to be particularly careful to keep a good Understanding with the Indians & see as far as lies ...
... governors he sent to the province to operate under secret instructions . Most of these instructions were motivated by ... governor : " You are to be particularly careful to keep a good Understanding with the Indians & see as far as lies ...
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... Governor and Council and Indians had taken their seats , Teedyuscung . . . called for Charles Thomson , Master of the Publick Quaker School in the City of Philadelphia ; placed him . . . at the Table , and said he had chosen him for his ...
... Governor and Council and Indians had taken their seats , Teedyuscung . . . called for Charles Thomson , Master of the Publick Quaker School in the City of Philadelphia ; placed him . . . at the Table , and said he had chosen him for his ...
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... governor that he was not confident that the dipsomaniac Delaware leader would remain sober enough to do so . However , he still held a sanguine view of Teedyuscung's sincerity . This view might have been somewhat tempered had Thomson ...
... governor that he was not confident that the dipsomaniac Delaware leader would remain sober enough to do so . However , he still held a sanguine view of Teedyuscung's sincerity . This view might have been somewhat tempered had Thomson ...
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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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