Samuel Smith papers, 1748-1768.

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Samuel Smith papers, 1748-1768.

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Consists of Samuel Smith's manuscript draft of The History of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and letters to Smith from Joseph Sherwood, New Jersey's Colonial Agent in England. There are also a few accounts and bills between Joseph Sherwood and the Colony of New Jersey, a power of attorney from Richard Partridge to Samuel Smith, and a copy made by Smith of Queen Anne's 1702 appointment of Edward Hyde (Lord Cornbury) as Governor of New Jersey with her instructions concerning the governing of that province. Sherwood's letters have been bound into one volume and are in loose chronological order dating from 1761-1768. They are addressed to Samuel Smith, and occasionally to New Jersey's Committee of Correspondence (made up of Samuel Smith, Robert Lawrence, John Wetherill, Charles Read, and Jacob Spicer), and report on political matters in England. The letters were written during the critical years before the American Revolution and refer to matters of possible concern to New Jersey, for example: the birth of George IV; various royal appointments; the death of Lord Egremont; the possible appointment of Lord William Pitt; resignations in Parliament; boundary disputes with the Colony of New York; Parliamentary grants; a cider tax; and the passing of various acts concerning trade, colonial-based troops, and the printing of paper money. The acts mentioned include the Currency Act and Revenue Act of 1764 and the Quartering Act and Stamp Act of 1765. Sherwood describes the tumultuous Colonial reaction to the Stamp Act and gladly informs Smith of its repeal. Sherwood also refers to Smith's History of the Colony of New Jersey, which was published in 1765.

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