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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... merchants would not budge on the question of nonimpor- tation , and Thomson and Dickinson were chagrined that when on the first of January 1769 Massachusetts and New York merchants actually began enforcement , Pennsylvania remained ...
... merchants would not budge on the question of nonimpor- tation , and Thomson and Dickinson were chagrined that when on the first of January 1769 Massachusetts and New York merchants actually began enforcement , Pennsylvania remained ...
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... merchants on 14 May , thereby fending off any change . Nevertheless , at a general meeting of merchants on 5 June , many were determined to press ahead with their efforts to resume trade . Thomson resorted to desperate measures and ...
... merchants on 14 May , thereby fending off any change . Nevertheless , at a general meeting of merchants on 5 June , many were determined to press ahead with their efforts to resume trade . Thomson resorted to desperate measures and ...
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... Merchants to the Inhabitants of Lancaster , 9 June 1770. Gratz , HSP . There is something rather ludicrous about this group still calling themselves " Committee of Merchants " and boasting of the sacrifices of Philadelphia's merchants ...
... Merchants to the Inhabitants of Lancaster , 9 June 1770. Gratz , HSP . There is something rather ludicrous about this group still calling themselves " Committee of Merchants " and boasting of the sacrifices of Philadelphia's merchants ...
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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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