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Book/Printed MaterialThe Board of Treasury to whom was referred their letter of the 29th of June last, together with sundry letters from the comptroller of the state of Pennsylvania, to Thomas Smith Esq; ... Signed and dated: Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, Arthur Lee. July 19th 1786. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 964 (#544); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33. p. 753. Evans 20044 Journals of the Continental Congress, 544 LC copy annotated on verso: Report of Board...
- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Osgood, Samuel - Livingston, Walter - United States. Continental Congress - Lee, Arthur - United States. Board of Treasury
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialThe United States in Congress assembled, Friday, September 28, 1787 : ... Congress having received the report of the convention lately assembled in Philadelphia, resolved unanimously, that the said report, with the ... Signed: Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 20790 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Replaces cancelled LCCN 90-898119 which formerly was LCCN tes52-817. qr03 06-01-90
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, December 19, 1777 : Whereas Sir William Howe, commander in chief of His Britannic Majesty's forces, has required, that provisions should be sent in for the subsistence of the American ... Imprint supplied from Evans. Followed by: In Congress, January 21, 1778. The Board of War ... esteem it their duty to state to Congress the following facts relating to the American prisoners, in the power of the enemy ... Signed at the end: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16112 Journals of the Continental Congress, 195 Also available in digital form on...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, February 3, 1778 : Resolved, that every officer who holds or shall hereafter hold a commission or office from Congress, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation ... Four resolutions of the Continental Congress concerning the loyalty oath. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint supplied from Evans. Evans 16113 Journals of the Continental Congress, 197 LC copy annotated on verso: Resolves of Congress directing all Continental officers to take the Oaths of Allegiance &c. Febr. 3d 1778. Also annotated: Oath of Allegiance to the United States. Source: Transfer from...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialI [blank] do acknowledge the United States of America, to be free, independent and sovereign states, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King ... Form of renunciation of allegiance to Great Britain, which all civil and military officers were required to sign. Publisher and place supplied by Evans, who gives date as 1776; however, "this title ... is the revised oath of allegiance adopted Feb. 3, 1778"--Ford, P.L. Continental Congress, 165. Evans 15183 Journals of the Continental Congress, 196 Ford, P.L. Continental Congress, 165 LC copy described is...
- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialI [blank] do [blank] that I will faithfully, truly and impartially execute the office of [blank] to which I am appointed ... Oath required by the Continental Congress for all officials of the United States. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 16114 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, February 5, 1778 : Resolved, that the captain or commanding officer of each company in the service of the United States shall, at the end of every month, furnish the ... Imprint from Evans. Followed by resolutions of February 6 and February 9 concerning auditors of accounts and conduct of officers. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16115 Journals of the Continental Congress, 198 LC copy has annotation in margin next to resolution of Feb. 9: this--already transmitted. Also annotated (in pencil?): Ambrose Madison[?]. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress....
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, February 6, 1778. For the better regulating the hospitals of the United States of America : resolved, that there be a deputy-director-general for the hospitals between Hudson and Potowmack rivers ... Establishing and regulating the administration of hospitals. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Bristol. Not in Evans. Bristol B4815 Shipton & Mooney 43570 LC copy imperfect: small holes in text of 7th and 8th resolutions. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, March 2, 1778 : Whereas it is essential to the operations of the army during the next campaign, that the most vigorous measures should forthwith be adopted for forming a ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Followed by: List of necessaries and accoutrements for each horseman. Evans 16116 Journals of the Continental Congress, 201 LC copy annotated on verso: Resolve of Congress of 2d. March 1778. for forming a body of horse. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, April 23, 1778 : Whereas persuasion and influence, the example of the deluded or wicked, the fear of danger, or the calamities of war, may have induced some of the ... Resolution of the Continental Congress recommending pardons to British sympathizers who freely turn themselves in. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16119 Journals of the Continental Congress, 203 LC copy annotated on verso: Vote[?] of Congress to receive returning Sinners. Dated in another hand: 23 Apr. 1778. Numbered at head of text: 124. Also available in digital form on the Library...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialUnited States lottery : the scheme is, that this lottery consist of four classes, of one hundred thousand tickets each. ... Includes two resolutions of the Continental Congress, dated Nov. 27, 1776 and May 2, 1778, and signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Recorded twice by Evans, among entries for 1776 and 1778. Evans 16149 Evans 15193 Journals of the Continental Congress, 205 LC copy has inscription at head of text: Dirck Ten Broeck. Also available in digital form on the Library of...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Ten Broeck, Dirck - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress - United States Lottery
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialAn address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America : Friends and countrymen, three years have now passed away, since the commencement of the present war. ... "In Congress, May 9, 1778. Resolved, that it be recommended to ministers of the Gospel, of all denominations, to read, or cause to be read, immediately after divine service, the above address to the inhabitants of the United States of America, in their respective churches and chapels, and other places of religious worship. Published by order of Congress, Charles Thomson, secretary." Signed: By order...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Laurens, Henry - Hall & Sellers - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, June 6, 1778 : Resolved, that the resolution of Congress of the 2d of June, relative to the subsistance [sic] money to be allowed to officers in the continental service, ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16127 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, July 25, 1778 : 1. Resolved, that the expedition against the fortress of Detroit be for the present deferred. ... Four numbered resolutions of the Continental Congress. Signed: Extract from the minutes. Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Bristol. Not in Evans. Bristol B4824 Shipton & Mooney 43579 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly U.S. Broadside portfolio 211, no. 3e. qr03 10-02-90
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, September 26, 1778 : Resolved, that a house be provided at the city or place where Congress shall sit, wherein shall be held the several offices of the Treasury ... Resolution of the Continental Congress establishing and regulating the Board of Treasury. Includes an oath and blank forms to be used by the Treasury. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Evans 16130 Journals of the Continental Congress, 227 LC copy annotated on verso: New arrangement of the Treasury Septemr. 26th 1778. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress....
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the Congress of the United States of America. Manifesto : These United States, having been driven to hostilities by the oppressive and tyrannous measures of Great-Britain ... they declared themselves free ... Signed: Done in Congress, by unanimous consent, the thirtieth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight. Henry Laurens, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 16132 Journals of the Continental Congress, 230 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - Laurens, Henry - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, January 13, 1779 : We cannot review the progress of the revolution which has given freedom to America, without admiring the goodness and gratefully acknowledging the interposition of Divine Providence. ... Four resolutions on withdrawing the bills of credit of the emissions of May 20, 1777 and April 11, 1778. The three resolutions dated January 2, 5, and 14, 1779, are each signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16566 Journals of the Continental Congress, 242 LC copy annotated on verso: Resolves Congress in January 1779 taking bills emitted May 20 1777 &...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialProclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it ... Signed: Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ... John Jay, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16552 Journals of the Continental Congress, 250 LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation for Continental Fast 1779. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly LCCN tes54-321. qr01 09-06-90
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - Jay, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialUnited States lottery : The scheme is, that this lottery consist of four classes, of one hundred thousand tickets each. ... Includes a resolution of the Continental Congress, dated April 12, 1779 and signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16647 Journals of the Continental Congress, 264 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress - United States Lottery
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, April 14, 1779 : Whereas Congress, on the twenty-first day of August last, did resolve, that when any persons are desirous of going within the enemy's lines, they shall apply ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16575 Journals of the Continental Congress, 265 LC copy annotated on verso: Gen. Lincoln. In another hand: Ap. 14. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly LCCN tes52-810. qr01 09-06-90
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Lincoln, Benjamin - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, July 30, 1779 : Ordinance for establishing a Board of Treasury, and the proper officers for managing the finances of these United States.
Ordinance for establishing a Board of Treasury Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Printer's name suggested by Evans. Evans 16579 Journals of the Continental Congress, 274 LC copy annotated on verso: Philada. July 30th 1779 Ordinance for establishing a Board of Treasury. Source: DLC #269161, 1905. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: United States - Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, August 16, 1779 : Resolved, that the cloathier general estimate the value of the several articles of soldiers cloathing at the prices they were respectively worth at the end of ... Establishing guidelines for paying soldiers for articles of clothing not received. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Not in Evans. Bristol B4973 Shipton & Mooney 43714 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, June 28, 1780 : Whereas Congress, on the eighteenth day of April last, resolved ... therefore resolved, that the principal of all loans that have been made to these United ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Ascribed to the press of David C. Claypoole by Evans. Evans 17022 Journals of the Continental Congress, 332 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1780
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Book/Printed MaterialPlan for conducting the Hospital Department of the United States. Dated on p. [3]: In Congress, September 30, 1780. Signed at end: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 17040 Journals of the Continental Congress, 337 Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4041 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1780
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, April 7, 1781 : Be it ordained and it is hereby ordained, by the United States in Congress assembled, that the following instructions be observed ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Line endings differ from those given by the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 21, p. 1199-1200. Evans 17384 Journals of the Continental Congress, 359 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly LCCN tes54-322. qr01 09-06-90
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1781
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