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  News from the moon. A review of the state of the British nation, vol. 7, number 14. page 53. Tuesday, May 10, 1710.
  Date of publication:
  1721
  

  Author(s):

  Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
  Description:
  The relationship of this British pamphlet of 1710 to Massachusetts controversies of 1720-1721 is still open to conjecture. Cf. Greenough, C.N. "Defoe in Boston." Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 28 ...
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  A vindication of the conduct of the House of Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay: more particularly, in the last session of the General Assembly. / By James Otis, Esq; a member of said House. ; [Four lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1762
  

  Author(s):

  Otis, James, 1725-1783.
  Description:
  Errata note, p. 53.
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  Martis, 29 die Octobris, A.D. 1765. In the House of Representatives. According to the order of the day ... ordered, that all the foregoing resolves be kept in the records of this House; that a just sense of liberty, and the firm sentiments of loyalty may be transmitted to posterity.
  Date of publication:
  1765
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.
  Description:
  Fourteen numbered resolves concerning taxation and the rights of British subjects in the province of Massachusetts Bay. John Green and Joseph Russell were printers to the House of Representatives of the province of ...
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  A Third extraordinary budget of epistles and memorials between Sir Francis Bernard of Nettleham, Baronet, some natives of Boston, New-England, and the present Ministry; against N. America, the true interest of the British Empire, and the rights of mankind.
  Date of publication:
  1769
  

  Author(s):

  Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779.
  Description:
  Caption title. Correspondence concerning the refusal of Boston to pay import duties, the retirement of the Commissioners of Customs from Boston to Castle William, and the seizure of John Hancock's vessel the Liberty. ...
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  Copy of letters sent to Great-Britain, by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and several other persons, born and educated among us. Which original letters have been returned to America, and laid before the Honorble [sic] House of Representatives of this province. : In which (notwithstanding His Excellency's declaration to the House, that the tendency and design of them was not to subvert the Constitution, but rather to preserve it entire) the judicious reader will discover the fatal source of the confusion and bloodshed in which this province especially has been involved, and which threatned [sic] total destruction to the liberties of all America.
  Date of publication:
  1773
  

  Author(s):

  Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780. ; Oliver, Andrew, 1706-1774. ; Rome, George. ; Moffat, Thomas. and Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.
  Description:
  Errata statement, p. 40. "Copy of a letter returned with those signed Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver, &c. from England ..."--p. 41-46, signed: G. Rome. "Copy of some letters signed Thomas Moffat, lately returned from ...
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  We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  Form of a covenant drawn up by the Committee of Correspondence at Boston; cf. Matthews, Albert. "The solemn league and covenant, 1774," in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. XVIII, 1917, p. 103-122. ...
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  Gentlemen, The evils which we have long foreseen are now come upon this town and province, the long meditated stroke is now given to the civil liberty of this country? ... The bill for blocking up the harbour of Boston is replete with injustice and cruelty ... There can be no doubt of our succeeding to the utmost of our wishes if we universally come into a solemn league, not to import goods from Great Britain ... we have drawn up a form of a covenant ...
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  "Boston, June 8, 1774. Signed by order and in behalf of the Committee of Correspondence for Boston."--p. [3].
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  A Brief review of the rise, progress, services and sufferings, of New-England, especially the province of Massachusetts-Bay. Humbly submitted to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament. : (Lately published in England.)
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Great Britain. Parliament.
  Description:
  Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription.
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  A speech intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charter of the colony of Massachusetts-Bay. By the Rev. Jonathan Shipley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Shipley, Jonathan, 1714-1788.
  Description:
  Advertised in the Boston evening post, Oct. 10, 1774.
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