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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Resolves of the General Court of... Massachusetts

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04395 Author/Creator: Place Written: Boston Type: Pamphlet Date: 1786 Pagination: 81 p. Order a Copy

Contains messages of Gov. James Bowdoin on Shays' Rebellion and discussion re: appointing representatives to the Constitutional Convention

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