Sir, By virtue of the authority vested in us by certain resolutions of the Congress of the colony of New-York, of the [blank] day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1776, reciting, that whereas there are in this colony, divers persons, who ... have been considered by their countrymen in a suspicious light: We do therefore, in pursuance of the said resolutions, summon you to appear before us, at [blank] on [blank] day of [blank] at [blank] o'clock, in the [blank] noon. of the said day, to shew cause, (if any you have) why you should be considered as a friend to the American cause
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New York (Colony) ; Provincial Congress. ; Committee on Loyalists. ; Holt, John ; 1721-1784 ; Fowler, Solomon ; Gansevoort, Leonard ; 1751-1810 ; Livingston, Philip ; 1716-1778 ; Tredwell, Thomas ; 1743-1831 ; Graham, Lewis ; Morris, Gouverneur ; 1752-1816 ; Randall, Thomas ; 1711-1780
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Scale of depreciation: agreeable to an act of the commonwealth of Massachusetts to be observed as a rule for settling the rate of depreciation on all contracts both publick and private, made on or since the first day of January, 1777
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Resolves of the Honourable Continental Congress: (Published by order of the General Committee, for the city and county of Albany.) ; Tory act
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824
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Die Repräsentanten der Vereinigten Staaten von America, im Congress versammelt, an das Volk überhaupt, und an die Einwohner Pennsylvaniens und der angrenzenden Staaten insbesondere
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Hancock, John ; 1737-1793 ; Miller, John Henry ; 1702-1782
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Providence, July 26, 1779. Sir; By the annexed vote of the town of Providence, you will perceive the anxious desire they possess of having the purposes therein expressed carried into execution
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Providence (R.I.) ; Committee of Correspondence. ; Bowen, Jabez ; 1739-1815 ; Carter, John ; 1745-1814
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Proposals made to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line, at Trenton, January 7, 1781: His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esquire, President, and the Honourable Brigadier-General Potter, of the Council of Pennsylvania, having heard the complaints of the soldiers ... are fully authorized to redress reasonable grievances
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Pennsylvania ; Supreme Executive Council. ; Reed, Joseph ; 1741-1785 ; Potter, James ; 1729-1789
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Proclamation. Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God the Father of all mercies: It is therefore recommended to the several states to set apart Thursday the seventh day of December next to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer ... Done in Congress, this eighteenth day of October, 1780
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Connecticut ; Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull) ; Trumbull, Jonathan ; 1710-1785
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Proclamation: Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God ... to assist and support the United States of America in their important struggle for liberty ... It is therefore recommended ... to set apart the thirteenth day of December next ... as a day of thanksgiving and prayer ... Done in Congress this twenty-sixth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty one
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Connecticut ; Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull). ; Green, Timothy ; 1737-1796 ; McKean, Thomas ; 1734-1817
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Postscript to the New-York packet, of May 14, 1778 ; New York packet, and the American advertiser
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Loudon, Samuel ; 1727?-1813
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To the public: On the 17th day of May, 1781, the following plan was submitted to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled: Plan for establishing a national bank, for the United States of North-America ; Plan for establishing a national bank, for the United States of North-America
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Morris, Robert ; 1734-1806 ; United States ; Continental Congress. ; Bank of North America
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Philadelphia. In Congress, May 21, 1776: Resolved, that all persons taken in arms on board any prize, be deemed prisoners, to be taken care of by the supreme executive power in each colony to which they are brought, whether the prize be taken by vessels fitted out by the Continent, or by others ; In Congress, May 21, 1776
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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Philadelphia, July 20, 1776. By an express arrived yesterday from South-Carolina, we have the following important intelligence: Extract of a letter from Fort Johnson, South-Carolina, July, 2, 1776
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Towne, Benjamin ; d. 1793 ; McKesson, John ; 1734-1798
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Philadelphia, January 27, 1781: My late engagements of a public nature have prevented my taking earlier notice of a report ... that I had or was concerned in trading to New-York. I declare it to be false and scandalous
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Reed, Joseph ; 1741-1785
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Pennsylvania War-Office, Philadelphia, May 2d, 1777: Application having been made to this board by the Honorable Major General Schuyler for assistance in procuring blankets
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Pennsylvania ; Board of War. ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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Peace. Salem, February 21, 1783: By Captain John Osgood in twenty-nine days from Martinico (arrived this day) we have the Martinico gazette of the 9th and 16th of January, from which we have translated the following interesting intelligence relative to peace
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Paris, May 18, 1778: Gentlemen, Certain intelligence having been received, that eleven British ships of war ... are in the road of St. Hellens, near Portsmouth, bound for North-America
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Franklin, Benjamin ; 1706-1790 ; Adams, John ; 1735-1826 ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; United States ; Continental Congress.
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Oppression: a poem. Or, New-England's lamentation of the dreadful extortion and other sins of the times: Being a serious exhortation to all to repent and turn from the evil of their ways, if they would avert the terrible and heavy judgments of the Almighty that hang over America at this alarming and distressing day ; Come all you friends to goodness, I pray you do attend
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Russell, Ezekiel ; 1743-1796
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On this day of renown, all joys shower down
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Gaine, Hugh ; 1726 or 7-1807 ; Odell, Jonathan ; 1737-1818
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Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States
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Antibiastes. ; Steiner, Melchior ; d. 1807? ; Cist, Charles ; 1738-1805
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The News-carriers address, to his customers. January 1st, 1782 ; Once more the New Years morn returns