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  Philadelphia, November 7, 1765. At a general meeting of the merchants and traders of this city, it was this day unanimously resolved by them ... that they would not import any goods from Great-Britain until the Stamp-Act was repealed ...
  Date of publication:
  1765
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  A form of non-importation agreement circulated for signatures.
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  Glorious news. Boston, Friday 11 o'clock, 16th May 1766. This instant arrived here ... important news, as follows. From the London gazette. Westminster, March 18th, 1766.
  Date of publication:
  1766
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Announcing the repeal of the Stamp Act. Printed area measures 32.0 x 12.7 cm.
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  The Scourge. Numb. I. Major Hæreditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure & legibus, quam a parentibus. A greater inheritance descends to us from the laws, than from our progenitors. The chief magistrate is a last become so corrupt ...
  Date of publication:
  1771
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Concerning the actions of King George III and his ministers which violated principles of English law and infringed upon the rights and liberties of Englishmen. Text appears in the May 23, 1771, issue of the Massachusetts ...
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  We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  Form of a covenant drawn up by the Committee of Correspondence at Boston; cf. Matthews, Albert. "The solemn league and covenant, 1774," in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. XVIII, 1917, p. 103-122. ...
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  The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish thus early purely to ease the impatience of our readers. Association, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  United States. Continental Congress.
  Description:
  "An agreement between the twelve colonies not to trade with England, drafted by Thomas Cushing, Isaac Low, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henry Lee, and Thomas Johnson, Jun."--Ford, Paul Leicester. Some materials for a bibliography ...
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