Petition, 1759.

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Petition, 1759.

Copy by William Smith of his own petition to Charles Pratt, attorney general of George III, seeking protection from further harassment and redress for imprisonment by the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1758 for publishing a libelous work by Judge William Moore.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803

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Clergyman, educator, playwright. From the description of Letter to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster [manuscript], 1773 July 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814474 Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The College of Philadelphia's Medical School, founded in 1765, became known as the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine In 1779. From the guide to the Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858, (American P...

Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794

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Lord Chancellor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, in the third person : Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, 1773 May 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870477 ...

Moore, William, 1699-1783

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Pennsylvania. Provincial Assembly

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