TitleDocument
CollectionThomas Addis Emmet collection
The Stamp Act Congress of 1765
Dates / OriginDate Created: 1897
Library locationsManuscripts and Archives DivisionShelf locator: MssCol 927
TopicsStamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.)
GenresDocuments
NotesFunding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.Content: Fo
Description"To the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of Great Britain in Parliament Assembled. The Memorial of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, [blank space] New Jersey, Pennsylvania, The Government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware, Province of Maryland." Signed by "James Otis, Olr Partridge, Committee from the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay; Metcalfe Bowler, Henry Ward, Committee from the Gen. Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Hendk Fisher, Joseph Borden, Committee from the Province of New Jersey; Geo Bryan, John Morton, Committee from the Province of Pennsylvania; Tho M: Kean, Caesar Rodney, Committee from the Government of the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware; Wm Murdoch, E. Tilghman, Th. Ringgold, Committee from the House of Representatives of the Province of Maryland." 3 pp. Endorsed on page 6: "Memorial to Lords spiritual & temporal in the parliament of Great Britain by delegates of sundry colonies met at New York 1765." 6 pp. Artotype fac-simile by Bierstadt. [New York, 1897.].
Type of ResourceText
LanguagesEnglish
IdentifiersNYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616MSS Unit ID: 927Emmet number: EM. 163Archives EAD ID: 275021Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9f1e1e30-6a34-0139-498d-0242ac110002
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