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Other Revolution and Founding Fathers (1765 - 1784) Offerings

George Washington’s “Justice and Public Good” Letter, Written Just Before Becoming the First President of the United States
General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, Printed by Benjamin Franklin
New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves – 1794 Land Deed from John Jay’s Brother for First African Free School in New York City

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General Washington Orders Declaration of Independence Read to Army in New York
Charles Thomson (One of Only Two Men to Sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4) Sends Treaty of Paris Proclamation Officially Ending the Revolutionary War
Continental Congress Address to Inhabitants of the Colonies Urging Unity Against British Tyranny, also prints Letter to Inhabitants of Quebec
General Hugh Mercer’s Will—Noting the Plantation he Purchased from George Washington (Ferry Farm, Washington’s Boyhood Home), and Instructions to Executors to “hire negroes” to Work the Plantation for the Benefit of his Wife and Children
Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill from a Loyalist Perspective
The Psalms of David, Carried in a Rhode Island Revolutionary War Unit in 1776
After Yorktown Victory, Samuel Huntington Congratulates French Foreign Minister
An Early Olive Branch Petition - Continental Congress Implores King George III for Relief
An Important Boston Tea Party Broadside is Reprinted
Connecticut Governor’s Proclamation Calling for a Day of Thanksgiving to Commemorate the Defeat of the French in Canada, and the Taking of Quebec
Continental Congress July 1775 Message Asserting American Sovereignty & Rejecting Parliament’s Appeal for Peace. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, Printed at Harvard. With Reports from London on Battles of Lexington and Concord
1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
Dutchess County Militia Members Receive Their Pay in December 1776
Acquittal of Printer John Peter Zenger in Colonial New York Establishes Foundation for American Freedom of the Press
The King’s Attorney Bills Connecticut – including cost of putting down a church riot (over tithing and ecclesiastical conflict between MA. & CT.) – and Suing Stamp Tax Collectors
Documenting Declaration of Independence Signer
Robert Morris’s Financial Troubles
Robert Morris Promissory Note,
Used As Evidence In His Bankruptcy Trial
Return for Lt. John Hicks’s Company at West Point
Boston Newspaper Publishes Former Governor Hutchinson’s Letters
An Intrastate Merchant Dispute on the Eve of the American Revolutionary War
“Cato” (William Smith, first Provost of College of Philadelphia) Opposes Common Sense, and “Cassandra” (Penn’s Professor of Mathematics) Answers
Honoring Washington and Quoting His Farewell Address (Drafted by Hamilton)
Masonic Constitution Dedicated to George Washington, with frontispiece Masonic Coats of Arms by Future Chief Engraver of the US Mint
Declaration Signer George Ross Gets Promissory Note for First Treason Trial in Pennsylvania
John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington”
and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
A Revolutionary War Doctor Defends His Reputation, Pennsylvania War News, and Congress Takes a Huge Loan
Depreciation, Inflation and Taxation
An Annapolis Report of the Continental Congress Deciding Legislative Terms Under the Articles of Confederation
John Hancock Addresses Massachusetts Legislature
Anti-Catholic “Test Oath” Signed by George Washington – as Required to Validate his Military Commission as Lieutenant Colonel at the Outset of the French and Indian War
The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Story of the Revolution and Founding

The Stamp That Started a Revolution (SOLD)

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STAMP ACT. Tax stamp, two shilling and six pence, 1765. Grey embossed paper, 3 x 3 ½ in., cut from parchment document. On verso, a paper stamp, 1 x 1 in., with George III’s seal.

Inventory #463.03 SOLD — please inquire about other items

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In an effort to raise revenue to pay for defending their colonies against the French and Indians, Britain’s Parliament decided to tax all paper goods from birth, marriage, and death certificates to newspapers. The Stamp Tax was a direct tax that conspicuously affected all segments of society. Worse, it was imposed by Parliament without input from the colonies. This rare 1765 tax stamp was actually used in America.