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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 ESTC W23850 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation for Continental Fast 1779. Formerly LCCN tes54-321....- 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 MaterialState of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, November 1, 1782 : Ordered, that the following proclamation for a general thanksgiving on the twenty-eighth day of November instant, received from the honorable ... Signed: M. Weare, president. Followed by the proclamation of the Continental Congress, dated Oct. 11, 1782, and signed: John Hanson, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 17763 ESTC W18333 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Transfer; Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Scanned cards stamped as no. 2183, 2184, 2185, 2272, 2273 and 2274. LAC sba 2021-01-30. LAC sba 2021-01-30...- Contributor: Weare, Meshech - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - New Hampshire. Committee of Safety - Hanson, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1782
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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 MaterialBy the United States of America in Congress assembled. A proclamation, declaring the cessation of arms, as well by sea as by land, agreed upon between the United States of America and ... Caption title. Signed: Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, this eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. (Attest.) Charles Thomson, sec'ry. Followed by: By His Excellency Benjamin Harrison, Esquire, governor of the commonwealth of Virginia. A Proclamation. ... Given ... this twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord one...- Contributor: Virginia. Governor ( : Harrison) - Boudinot, Elias - Hayes, James - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1783
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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 MaterialIn Congress. December 6, 1775 : We the delegates of the thirteen United Colonies in North America have taken into our most serious consideration a proclamation issued from the Court of St. ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, sec. Place and date of publication from Evans. Hildeburn describes issue in which printer's name appears as J. Dunlap. Text in two columns. Evans 14567 Journals of the Continental Congress, 74 Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3226 ESTC W15260 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated on verso: Parke 1/Cushing. I.O....- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas the United States in Congress assembled, by their commissioners duly appointed and authorized, did on the twenty-eighth day of November, one ... Signed: Cyrus Griffin, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 34, p. 631. Recorded in Dunlap's account book. Cf. JCC 612. Evans 21517 Journals of the Continental Congress, 612 ESTC W23951 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation of...- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Griffin, Cyrus - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1788
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Book/Printed MaterialPhiladelphia. In Congress, December 6, 1775 : We the delegates of the thirteen United Colonies in North-America, have taken into our most serious consideration a proclamation issued from the Court at St. ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, sec. Text in three columns. Bristol B4150a Shipton & Mooney 42965 Journals of the Continental Congress, 75 LC copy imperfect: most of heading and top line of text wanting. Title supplied from Bristol. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, 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) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialProclamation. By the United States in Congress assembled : Whereas information has been received from the comptroller of the Treasury, that various certificates of final settlement issued by the commissioner for settling ... Offering a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of persons guilty of forgery of certificates. Signed and dated: Done at New-York, this second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five ... Richard Henry Lee, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v....- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Thompson, E. - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Lee, Richard Henry - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas definitive articles of peace and friendship, between the United States of America and His Britannic Majesty, were concluded and signed at ... Signed: Given under the seal of the United States, witness His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, our president, at Annapolis, this fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four ... Text, in three columns, includes the text of the treaty. Evans 18819 Journals of the Continental Congress, 424 ESTC W30082 Also available in digital form on the Library...- Contributor: Mifflin, Thomas - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Great Britain - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1784
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CollectionDocuments from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 Contains 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most broadsides are one page in length; others range from 1 to 28 pages. A number of these items contain...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1774
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress. December 11, 1776 : Whereas, the just war into which the United States of America have been forced by Great-Britain, is likely to be still continued by the same violence ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thompson [i.e. Thomson], secretary. Evans 15176 Journals of the Continental Congress, 137 ESTC W34812 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly U.S. Broadside portfolio 211, no. 3aa. Pencilled at top: AC.2413. LAC tnb 2021-09-16 no edits (2 cards) Scanned stamped as no. 1566-1567 LAC tnb 2021-09-16.- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialThe committee to whom was referred the letter of the commissioners authorised to form treaties with the Indian tribes, having conferred with the said commissioners upon the subject of their letter, and ... Read May 3, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 28, p. 330-333. Evans incorrectly gives June 15, 1785 as date of text. Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 922 (#473), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Evans 19304 Journals of the Continental Congress, 473 ESTC W30439...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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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 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 ESTC W30084 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly LCCN tes54-322. qr01 09-06-90 Scanned card stamped as no. 2224. LAC sba 2021-01-07....- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1781
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, May 2, 1780 : Instructions to the captains and commanders of private armed vessels which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal. Signed on p. [2]: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Originally published: Philadelphia : David Claypoole, 1780. Imprint from Livingston. Probably printed about the end of April, 1781. Cf. Livingston, L.S. Franklin and his press at Passy, p. 84-86. Footnote to first article of text, at bottom of p. [1]: *This exception is taken away by an ordinance of Congress, of March the...- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Franklin, Benjamin - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1781
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Book/Printed MaterialOutlines of a plan for the establishment of a mint, for the United States : humbly submitted to Congress. William Barton's "Letters and thoughts on a mint" dated Aug. 22, 1785, was referred to the Board of Treasury Sept. 6, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 682. Caption title. Imprint statement from colophon; date supplied by Bristol. Dated on p. [4]: Philadelphia, August 22, 1785. Not in Evans. Bristol B6136 Shipton & Mooney 44756 ESTC W17590 Also available in...- Contributor: Barton, William - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Cist, Charles
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialPropositions respecting the coinage of gold, silver, and copper. Report of the grand committee of the Continental Congress, read May 13, 1785; with the plan of Robert Morris, dated January 15, 1782, and Notes on the establishment of a money unit, and of a coinage for the United States, by Thomas Jefferson. In consequence of this report, the Continental Congress on July 6, 1785, adopted the dollar as the unit of coinage, and...- Contributor: Morris, Robert - Jefferson, Thomas - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialState of New-Hampshire, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four : An act for granting to the United States in Congress assembled, certain impost and duties upon ... "A collection of laws passed by each of the 13 colonies to enable Congress to lay import duties"--Bristol. Caption title. Followed by: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. An act for granting to the United States in Congress assembled, certain imposts and duties upon foreign goods imported into this state ... [and followed by similar...- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - New Hampshire
- Date: 1786
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