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Additional authors

1. Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814.
2. United States. Continental Congress.

Description

1. 7, 8 p.; 20 cm.

Subject

1. United States > Hhistory > Revolution > Beginnings

Call number

1. *KD 1776 (New York (Colony) Committee of Safety, 1775-1776. To the inhabitants of the colony of New-York)

Note

1. Caption title.
2. "To prevent, as much as possible, the evil consequences which may arise from the assertion, that the 'Continental Congress have made no approaches towards and accomodation with Great-Britain,' the Committee of safety of the colony of New-York, have directed the following Petition of the Continental Congress, to His Majesty; and the Address of the lord mayor and livery of London, to the electors of Great-Britain, occasioned by that petition; to be published." (Signed: By order of the committee, Pierre Van Cortlandt, chairman. Jan. 9, 1776)--p. [1]
3. "The following is a copy of the Petition of the honourable Continental Congress, sitting at Philadelphia, July 8, 1775, to His Majesty": p. 2-7. ("The only separate edition of the second petition to the king I Have been able to find."--P.L. Ford, Some materials for a bibl. of the official pub. of the Continental Congress, 1890, p. 7)
4. Address of the mayor of London "To the electors": 8 p. at end.

Author

1. New York (Colony). Committee of Safety.

Title

1. To the inhabitants of the colony of New-York.

Imprint

1. [New-York, printed by J. Holt, 1776]

Local note

1. The address is closely trimmed: colophon cut away.

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Added author

1. Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814.
2. United States. Continental Congress.

LCCN

1. 05034604

Research call number

1. *KD 1776 (New York (Colony) Committee of Safety, 1775-1776. To the inhabitants of the colony of New-York)