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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... present - day Wilkes - Barre from where they mounted attacks on the scattered white settlements . Though it is not possible to be certain of his motives at any stage of his career as a Delaware leader , Teedyuscung probably was induced ...
... present - day Wilkes - Barre from where they mounted attacks on the scattered white settlements . Though it is not possible to be certain of his motives at any stage of his career as a Delaware leader , Teedyuscung probably was induced ...
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... present , since two days earlier he was in Philadelphia.15 The tactics of the meeting were tried and true : castigate the merchants who had been appointed consignees for the tea in the same language that had been used against John ...
... present , since two days earlier he was in Philadelphia.15 The tactics of the meeting were tried and true : castigate the merchants who had been appointed consignees for the tea in the same language that had been used against John ...
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... present ferment , to mark the characters of the present actors and to see the issue of present measures . " 142 Congress had determined to move its operations to Annapolis , and this time the Thomsons decided that Hannah must accompany ...
... present ferment , to mark the characters of the present actors and to see the issue of present measures . " 142 Congress had determined to move its operations to Annapolis , and this time the Thomsons decided that Hannah must accompany ...
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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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