Considerations on the present claims of the Americans : manuscript, [1774].

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Considerations on the present claims of the Americans : manuscript, [1774].

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Manuscript (ca. 40 p.) with a contemporary fair copy of the first 28 pages. Unsigned and undated, but probably written in the year 1774 when Parliament was passing the Punitive and other Acts for disciplining the North American Colonies. Written by a partisan of Government and a believer in the legal and equitable right of the British Government to tax the American Colonies. Includes negative references to various grants and charters granted to the Colonies, Lord Chatam, Lord Camden, and Otis and Dickinson, who had in their writings championed the cause of the Colonies and had asserted taxation could not be imposed without representation.

1 item (ca. 70 p.) ; 20-23 cm.

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