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- GLC#
- GLC01018
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1765-1781 ( bulk: 1765-1766 )
- Author/Creator
- Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824
- Title
- Manuscript journal and letter book
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 v. (ca. 200 p. : ) Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Bulk, 1765-1769 on Stamp Act Congress; some pages cut out. In four sections: 1) Correspondence of CT and Philadelphia Merchant's Committee, re: Stamp Act, 1765-1766; 2) Resolves of colonies re: Stamp Act Congress, with minutes of the Congress from Oct. 1765; 3) Records of the Philadelphia Merchants' Committee for 1769 with CT's transcripts of letters sent to Benjamin Franklin and others; 4) Retained drafts of correspondence, 1780-1781, with two long letters to John Jay (10/12/1780 and 7/11/1781) on the Revolutionary War.
Written in a reverse calf copybook with engraved label of bookbinder Samuel Taylor.
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