Item #63660 Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental

Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental

Item #63660

(CONTINENTAL CONGRESS). Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774. Containing The Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, and Address to the People of Great-Britain, a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies, and an Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec. Published by Order of the Congress. New-London, CT: Printed and Sold by Timothy Green, 1774. Housed in custom cloth-backed boards clamshell box with printed paper label. Uniform toning, chipping to edges (not affecting text) professionally and unobtrusively repaired, else a very good or better copy. HOWES E-247. Evans 13731. Reese, Revolutionary Hundrd 25. New London Imprints 994. A scarce New London printing of one of the most important documents of the American Revolution, which digests the most important proceedings of the Continental Congress between 5 September and 26 October 1774. This publishes the Declaration of Rights, passed Oct. 14, in which Congress asserts the colonists' rights as Englishmen and claims they were violated by the Stamp Act; the Townsend Act; the Coercive Acts; and the Quebec Acts. The Association has the Colonies bind themselves together in respect to neither import nor consume British goods. The addresses justify to the British people the acts of the Congress. Timothy Green produced two editions in 1774, this edition of sixteen pages and another of seventy pages. The text is the same, this edition is printed in much smaller typeface.

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