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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... writing to his wife : " Tell Mr. Thomson that I have just heard the Proprietor is writing an Answer to his Book , and will pay off him and the Quakers . " 76 Yet there is no evidence that Penn's pique found written expression " beyond ...
... writing to his wife : " Tell Mr. Thomson that I have just heard the Proprietor is writing an Answer to his Book , and will pay off him and the Quakers . " 76 Yet there is no evidence that Penn's pique found written expression " beyond ...
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... writing of the said Charles Thom- son this Informt havg frequently seen the said Charles Thomson write & being acquainted with his hand writing.35 Added to his natural prickliness , perhaps Thomson's temperament during 1778 can be ...
... writing of the said Charles Thom- son this Informt havg frequently seen the said Charles Thomson write & being acquainted with his hand writing.35 Added to his natural prickliness , perhaps Thomson's temperament during 1778 can be ...
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... writing some form of inside history of the Revolution had not recommended itself for his retire- ment . Surely " no person in the world is so perfectly acquainted with the rise , conduct and conclusion of the American Revolution as your ...
... writing some form of inside history of the Revolution had not recommended itself for his retire- ment . Surely " no person in the world is so perfectly acquainted with the rise , conduct and conclusion of the American Revolution as your ...
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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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