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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... wrote several letters supplying him with con- stant detail : " This is the third letter I have late wrote you . With the two last , one dated the 5th : the other 16th : of April I sent you a Copy of two Conferences between Teedyuscung ...
... wrote several letters supplying him with con- stant detail : " This is the third letter I have late wrote you . With the two last , one dated the 5th : the other 16th : of April I sent you a Copy of two Conferences between Teedyuscung ...
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... wrote to Sam Adams in apologetic terms : It was true that Pennsylvania was " rather slow in determining " ; yet though in the past they had been late in joining nonimportation , " none were more steady when once they engaged . " Thomson ...
... wrote to Sam Adams in apologetic terms : It was true that Pennsylvania was " rather slow in determining " ; yet though in the past they had been late in joining nonimportation , " none were more steady when once they engaged . " Thomson ...
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... wrote , " We hope the Non - exportation Agreement to Great - Britain will always except such traitors to the Liberties of America . " 62 From his ship , Rivington petitioned Congress for help , but it merely referred his plea to the New ...
... wrote , " We hope the Non - exportation Agreement to Great - Britain will always except such traitors to the Liberties of America . " 62 From his ship , Rivington petitioned Congress for help , but it merely referred his plea to the New ...
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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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