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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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  To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. The humble address of His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, Your Majesties governor, and the Council & representatives of your people in Your Majesties province of New-York, conven'd in General Assembly.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  New York (State). Governor (1698-1701 : Bellomont). and England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary).
  Description:
  Congratulating William and Mary on their military victories in Europe. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  To His Highness William Henrick, Prince of Orange, the most humble petition of George Lord Chancellor Jefferies.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, Baron, 1644 or 5-1689. and William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00386) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 471) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 471)
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  The Scourge. Numb. I. Major Hæreditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure & legibus, quam a parentibus. A greater inheritance descends to us from the laws, than from our progenitors. The chief magistrate is a last become so corrupt ...
  Date of publication:
  1771
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Concerning the actions of King George III and his ministers which violated principles of English law and infringed upon the rights and liberties of Englishmen. Text appears in the May 23, 1771, issue of the Massachusetts ...
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  The Plain case stated of old--but especially of New-England, in an address to His Highness the Prince of Orange.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Harris, Benjamin, d. 1716?
  Description:
  Verse, of 240 lines, concerning the Revolution of 1688. First line: Hail noble prince, in whom our joy and love. Textual evidence suggests that Benjamin Harris, who visited England in 1688, may have been the author of the ...
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  The New-Year verses of the printer's boy, who carries the Pennsylvania-gazette to the customers. 1748.
  Date of publication:
  1748
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Title within mortised block (Reilly 117). Followed by: Philadelphia, January 2. By Capt. Gantony, arrived at Wilmington from St. Eustasia, we have the following extracts. A letter from a gentleman at Eustasia to his friend ...
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  The Loyal address of the clergy of Virginia.
  Date of publication:
  1702
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  In verse. First line: May it please you dread sir, we the clerks of Virginia. The imprint is false. Probably printed in London.
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  The General Courts answer to Joseph Dudley Esqr. &c. This was pas'd by the whole court, nemine non consentiente. Gentlemen, We have perused what you left with us ... impowring you for the governing of His Majesties subjects inhabiting this colony ... And therefore we think it highly concerns us to consider, whether such a commission be safe either for you or us. ...
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court. and Territory and Dominion of New England. President (1686 : Dudley).
  Description:
  Signed: May 20th. 1686. Per order, Edward Rawson secr. Imprint supplied by Ford.
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  The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish thus early purely to ease the impatience of our readers. Association, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  United States. Continental Congress.
  Description:
  "An agreement between the twelve colonies not to trade with England, drafted by Thomas Cushing, Isaac Low, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henry Lee, and Thomas Johnson, Jun."--Ford, Paul Leicester. Some materials for a bibliography ...
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  Philadelphia, November 7, 1765. At a general meeting of the merchants and traders of this city, it was this day unanimously resolved by them ... that they would not import any goods from Great-Britain until the Stamp-Act was repealed ...
  Date of publication:
  1765
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  A form of non-importation agreement circulated for signatures.
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