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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, July 4, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred a copy of the convention respecting French and ... Comparing the scheme and actual convention and stating objections to the present form of the latter. "Read July 6, 1785"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 515. Title taken from the opening lines of text. Signed on p. 9: All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC,...- Contributor: United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, 29th September, 1785 : The secretary of the United States, for the Department of Foreign Affairs, in obedience to the order of Congress, reports the draft of an ... Read October 3, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 797-805. Caption title. Signed on p. [4]: All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 928 (#501); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Evans 19321...- Contributor: United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, 13th May, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred a letter of the 21st March last, from ... Read May 13, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 18, p. 361. Signed: All of which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 922 (#476); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Evans 19318 Journals of the Continental...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, September 19, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, in obedience to the order of Congress of August 9, 1785, respecting ... Read September 20, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 722-724. Signed: All of which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 927 (#496); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Evans 19320 Journals of the Continental...- Contributor: United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, October 13, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred back his report of the 19th ult. respecting ... Concerning the placement of American consuls abroad. Read October 13, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 831-833. Signed: All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 930 (#506); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753....- Contributor: United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, 7th October, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the representation of certain French merchants, against the ... Recommendations concerning acts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts excluding French vessels from all but certain ports. Report submitted October 10, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 817-820. Signed: All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 929 (#503); but later volumes...- Contributor: United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialMr. Charles Pinckney's speech, in answer to Mr. Jay, secretary for foreign affairs, on the question of a treaty with Spain : delivered in Congress, August 16, 1786. Caption title. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 19926 ESTC W3873 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated in ink on left margin of p. [4]: Pinckney Ch' Speech in Congs. Aug. 16 1786. Annotated in pencil: On Jay's ... treaty respecting Mississippi. Annotated at bottom of p. [4]: Charles Pinckney. LAC sba 2021-05-06 no edits (1...- Contributor: Childs, Francis - Pinckney, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialThe secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the papers herewith enclosed, respecting the eastern boundary line of the said states, reports ... Recommending that commissioners be appointed to hear and decide boundary disputes with Great Britain; read April 21, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 28, p. 287-290. Signed by John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 921 (#471), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Evans 19323...- Contributor: United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, 6th April, 1787 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, in pursuance of the order of Congress directing him to report the ... Signed: All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. (Signed) John Jay. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 20775 Journals of the Continental Congress, 571 ESTC W23961 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Transfer; Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Scanned cards stamped as no. 2797 and no. 2798. LAC nsk 2020-09-22. LAC nsk 2020-09-22 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Jay, John - United States. Continental Congress - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, 20th October, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred his letter of 13th instant, to His Excellency ... Recommending "measures be taken for protecting the American trade, and meeting these predatory enemies in a proper manner"--P. [1]. Includes the letters and the motion listed in the title. Title taken from opening lines of text. Signed on p. [2]: All of which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in...- Contributor: United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay, John - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialUnited States in Congress assembled, April 13, 1787. The following letter was unanimously agreed to : Sir, our secretary for foreign affairs has transmitted to you copies of a letter to him ... Imprint from Evans. Evans 20776 Journals of the Continental Congress, 572 ESTC W1453 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy signed in ms. at the end: Chas Thomson secy. LAC sba 2021-05-26 no edits (2 cards) Scanned card stamped as no. 2786 and 2787. LAC sba 2021-05-26- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Board of Treasury to whom was referred on the 7th July inst. a paper from le Sieur Marbois, charge des affaires of His Most Christian Majesty, dated 16th May last, report ... Concerning loan-office certificates held by foreigners. Read August 2, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 599-606. Signed: All of which is, with deference to the judgment of Congress, submitted. Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston. Board of Treasury, 30th July, 1785. Imprint suggested by JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of publication. The Continental...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Livingston, Walter - Johnson, William Samuel - Osgood, Samuel - United States. Board of Treasury
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialThe committee consisting of Mr. Kearney, Mr. Carrington, Mr. Bingham, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Dane, to whom was referred the report of the secretary at war, and sundry papers relative to Indian ... Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to the press of John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753. Recorded in Dunlap's account book. Cf. JCC 587. Evans 20770 Journals of the Continental Congress, 587 ESTC W30427 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC has two copies on one folded sheet. Copy 1: [A]1;...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialExtract of a letter from General Montgomery, dated camp before St. John's, October 20, 1775 ... "Published by order of the Congress, Charles Thomson, sec." Evans 14541 Journals of the Continental Congress, 72 ESTC W13944 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Richard
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed Material1784 Convention between His Most Christian Majesty and the thirteen United States of North America : for the purpose of determining and fixing the functions and perogatives of their respective consuls, vice-consuls, ... Caption title. Printed in two columns. One contains the convention of 1784; the other that of 1788, with different type faces used to show changes. The 1784 treaty is signed by Gravier de Vergennes and Benjamin Franklin; the 1788 treaty signed by L.C. De Montmorin and Thomas Jefferson. Imprint from Evans. Signatures: [1]⁶ ([1]6 blank). LC copy: Marginal notes in Thomas Jefferson's handwriting. Evans,...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson, Thomas - Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - France
- Date: 1788
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission, given on the 28th day of September, 1782, to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, a treaty ... Includes the full text of the treaty. Signed: Done in Congress at Princeton, this twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Text in five columns. Evans 18245 Journals of the Continental Congress, 415 Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4343 ESTC W18351 Also available in digital form on the Library of...- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - Sweden - Boudinot, Elias - Franklin, Benjamin
- Date: 1783
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled. A proclamation : Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission ... a treaty of amity and commerce between ... the States General of the United ... Includes the text of the treaty, followed by: Convention between the lords the States General of the United Netherlands and the United States of America, concerning vessels recaptured. Signed: Done in Congress this twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, sec'ry. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text in six columns...- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - United Provinces of the Netherlands - United States. Continental Congress - Boudinot, Elias
- Date: 1783
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Book/Printed MaterialThe scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of North-America, for defining and regulating the functions and privileges of consuls, vice-consuls, agents and commissaries. Caption title. "Done at Versailles, the 29th July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four. Signed: Gravier de Vergennes, (L.S.), B. Franklin, (L.S.) Faithfully translated from the original, by John Pintard"--P. 11. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 19330 Journals of the Continental Congress, 442 ESTC W24708 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated at top of p....- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Vergennes, Charles Gravier - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Franklin, Benjamin - France
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialSupplement to the Daily advertiser, Tuesday, June 6, 1786 : The United States of America in Congress assembled ... : Whereas a treaty of amity and commerce, between His Majesty the King ... Includes the text of the treaty. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 20088 ESTC W36644 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated on verso: Treaty between the United States & Prussia 1785. LAC sba 2021-05-04 no edits (1 card) Print Ephemera card has "Evans 19597". LAC sba 2021-05-04. Scanned card stamped as no. 2603. LAC sba 2021-05-04....- Contributor: Childs, Francis - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Prussia (Kingdom) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1786
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ArticleIdentifying Defects in the Constitution By the United States in Congress Assembled. November 1,1783. Annapolis: Printed by John Dunlap, 1784. Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division. With the passage of time, weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation became apparent; Congress commanded little respect and no support from state governments anxious to maintain their power. Congress could not raise funds, regulate trade, or conduct foreign policy without... -
ArticleTo Form a More Perfect Union Declaration of Independence. Painting by John Trumbull (1756-1843) photographed by Theodor Horydczak ca.1920-1950. Theodor Horydczak Collection, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-H8-CT-C01-063. Between 1774 and 1789, 13 colonies became a nation - the United States of America. In 1774, Great Britain's North American colonies first came together to defend themselves against wrongs committed by their "mother country." By 1789, these colonies had become... -
Book/Printed MaterialThe committee to whom were referred a letter of the [blank] of December from the Honorable Cyrus Griffin and John Lowell, Esquires, judges of the Court of Appeals, and a motion of ... Two reports given April 4, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 28, p. 230. Imprint suggested by JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 920 (#466). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of publication. Includes: The committee to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Ellis, praying a...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Williamson, Hugh - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled. March 31, 1785 : An ordinance for the regulation of the office of the Secretary of Congress. Caption title. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 919 (#463); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Evans 19282 Journals of the Continental Congress, 463 ESTC W27087 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated on...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialThe committee consisting of Mr. Pinckney, Mr. R.R. Livingston, Mr. King, Mr. Monroe and Mr. Johnson, to whom were referred a letter of the [blank] of December, from the Honorable Cyrus Griffin ... Concerning the judges of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, and certain cases pending. Read June 1, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 28, p. 413-414. Imprint suggested by JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 923 (#479). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of publication....- Contributor: Johnson, William Samuel - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialThe committee consisting of Mr. Howell, Mr. Monroe, Mr. Pinckney, Mr. R.R. Livingston and Mr. Gardner, appointed to revise the institution of the office of the Secretary of Congress, and to report ... Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 916 (#453),an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Evans 19295 Journals of the Continental Congress, 453 ESTC W23907 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has extensive ms. additions and annotations in the hand of...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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