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Book/Printed Material The committee consisting of [blank] to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, report as follows

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Title

  • The committee consisting of [blank] to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, report as follows : Resolved, that the treasury board be authorised and empowered to contract with Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, or any other agent or agents, duly authorised by the company stiled and known by the name of the associators for the purchase of the lands on the northwest side of Ohio River ...

Names

  • United States. Continental Congress.
  • Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [New York : s.n., 1787]

Headings

  • -  Land grants--Northwest, Old
  • -  United States--Territorial expansion
  • -  Parsons, Samuel Holden,--1737-1789
  • -  United States--New York--New York

Genre

  • Broadsides--New York (N.Y.)--1787
  • Broadsheet format (Printing)--New York (N.Y.)--1787

Notes

  • -  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 583.
  • -  Evans 20765
  • -  Journals of the Continental Congress, 583
  • -  LC copy annotated in ink and pencil on verso in two different hands. In ink: Report on Memorial of Samuel H. Parsons. Relative to purchase of Lands in Ohio. In pencil: Memorial printed[?] & read May 9, 1787, 41:8-159, Committed [memorial] reported on July 10 1787, [memorial] voted[?] [on] July 23, 1787.
  • -  Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.

Medium

  • 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 x 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Cont Cong no. 223

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 90898152

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

United States Continental Congress, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. The committee consisting of blank to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, report as follows: Resolved, that the treasury board be authorised and empowered to contract with Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, or any other agent or agents, duly authorised by the company stiled and known by the name of the associators for the purchase of the lands on the northwest side of Ohio River. [New York: s.n, 1787] Online Text. https://www.loc.gov/item/90898152/.

APA citation style:

United States Continental Congress & Continental Congress Broadside Collection. (1787) The committee consisting of blank to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, report as follows: Resolved, that the treasury board be authorised and empowered to contract with Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, or any other agent or agents, duly authorised by the company stiled and known by the name of the associators for the purchase of the lands on the northwest side of Ohio River. [New York: s.n] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90898152/.

MLA citation style:

United States Continental Congress, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. The committee consisting of blank to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, report as follows: Resolved, that the treasury board be authorised and empowered to contract with Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, or any other agent or agents, duly authorised by the company stiled and known by the name of the associators for the purchase of the lands on the northwest side of Ohio River. [New York: s.n, 1787] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/90898152/>.