Manuscripts and documents, 1765-1775, relating to Pennsylvania's provincial non-importation resolutions.

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Manuscripts and documents, 1765-1775, relating to Pennsylvania's provincial non-importation resolutions.

These volumes contain a small group of manuscripts and printed material relating to the Stamp Act (1765), the Non-Importation Agreements (1765-1766, 1774), and the Tea Tax (1773). There are also letters of Governor John Penn, correspondence between the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia and in New York (1766), and an address of the committee of Boston merchants to a committee of Philadelphia merchants (1768). In the back of one volume are the accounts of expenditures by an unknown person in Philadelphia (1780).

3 v. (56 p.).

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Sons of liberty

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Penn, John, 1729-1795

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Hughes, John.

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