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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... reported to Sir Guy Carleton that a movement was afoot among some delegates to supplant Congress with a “ junto " headed by George Washington and sustained by the Society of the Cincinnati . This recently formed ex- clusive club of army ...
... reported to Sir Guy Carleton that a movement was afoot among some delegates to supplant Congress with a “ junto " headed by George Washington and sustained by the Society of the Cincinnati . This recently formed ex- clusive club of army ...
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... reported that it organized its committee on the fifteenth . Lancaster to CT , 15 June 1774 , ibid . , 200-201 . Chester organized on 18 June and Northampton followed suit . Ryerson , " Leadership , " 186 ; and Force , 4th series , 1 ...
... reported that it organized its committee on the fifteenth . Lancaster to CT , 15 June 1774 , ibid . , 200-201 . Chester organized on 18 June and Northampton followed suit . Ryerson , " Leadership , " 186 ; and Force , 4th series , 1 ...
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... reported to Congress and there adopted . This arrangement was convenient for the Party in Opposition to Us , who by this means evaded the Appearance on the Journals , of any Subject they disliked . " Ibid . , 3 : 364-65 ( 17 February ...
... reported to Congress and there adopted . This arrangement was convenient for the Party in Opposition to Us , who by this means evaded the Appearance on the Journals , of any Subject they disliked . " Ibid . , 3 : 364-65 ( 17 February ...
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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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