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02 September 1783
Great Britain. Treaties
Preliminary articles of peace between...Great Britain and...the United Provinces
Published by Webster and McLean. Treaty of peace between England and Holland.
GLC00256
18 April 1794
U.S. Congress
Resolution: "That the present Embargo be continued"
Signed by Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State. Concerning the Quasi-War with France. States that the present Enbargo be continued until "the twenty fifth day of May next."
GLC00265.01
26 March 1798
U.S. Senate
A Motion: establishing embargo, fortifying ports and raising an army
The motion was a result of the Quasi-War with France. Document is slashed on lower right corner. Formerly pencilled "Duplicate."
GLC00265.02
2 April 1917
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
A message calling for war with the imperial German government in defense of American rights
Subtitled "Delivered by President Woodrow Wilson to the Congress of the United States of America on Monday, April the Second, in the year nineteen hundred seventeen."
GLC03621
27 February 1690
Charles Bill & Thomas Newcomb, fl. 1690
By the King and Queen, a proclamation requiring all seamen and mariners to render themselves to their Majesties service.
All officials are to support this and they are to give over the names of those seamen and mariners who continue to shirk service. Printed in London by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb.
GLC01450.535
1782
George III, King of Great Britain (1738-1820)
Epitaph [mock epitaph on George III, "Button-Maker"]
Satirical epitaph on King George III. Compares George III to various dictatorial rulers, including Caligua and Cesar, Printed by F. Bailey. Inscribed at top to "Mrs. Rebecca Treat at Yorktown -- From Sam: Leatney [?]."
GLC01531
1774/10/26
United States. Continental Congress.
Petition from the General Congress... to the King [American grievances]
The last action of the first Continental Congress. Entitled "A Genuine Copy / of the / Peititon from the General Congress in America to the King. Published by Order of the Congress, at Philadelphia Oct. 26, 1774." 2 columns. No imprint...
GLC01671
14 February 1783
[Announcing the armistice between the United States and Great Britain]
Announcing the armistice between the United States and Great Britain. Printed by Charles Eyre & William Strahan. Full title: "A Proclamation, declaring cessation of arms, as well by sea as Land, agreed upon between his magesty, the most christian...
GLC01731
1790/04/14
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
The Secretary of State.... [report on supplying coinage from England]
Broadside printed by Childs and Swaine. First printing of Jefferson's first published report as Secretary of State rejecting a proposal to import copper coins minted in England as an infringement on American sovereignty. The idea had been proposed...
GLC01738
1773
Scaevola, 18th cent.
To the Commissioners Appointed by the East-India Company, for the Sale of Tea, in America.
Protests the consignment of tea as a means to raise revenue for Britain in America. Equates the commissioners' appointment with those of the Stamp Act tax collectors a few years earlier. Scaevola was a pseudonym.
GLC01753
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