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Book/Printed MaterialProclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it … Signed: Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ... John Jay, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16552 Journals of the Continental Congress, 250 LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation for Continental Fast 1779. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly LCCN tes54-321. qr01 09-06-90- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - Jay, John - Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialState of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, November 1, 1782 : Ordered, that the following proclamation for a general thanksgiving on the twenty-eighth day of November instant, received from the honorable … Signed: M. Weare, president. Followed by the proclamation of the Continental Congress, dated Oct. 11, 1782, and signed: John Hanson, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 17763 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Hanson, John - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Weare, Meshech - New Hampshire. Committee of Safety
- Date: 1782
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled. A proclamation : Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission ... a treaty of amity and commerce between ... the States General of the United … Includes the text of the treaty, followed by: Convention between the lords the States General of the United Netherlands and the United States of America, concerning vessels recaptured. Signed: Done in Congress this twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, sec'ry. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text in six columns…- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United Provinces of the Netherlands - Boudinot, Elias - Claypoole, David C. - Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1783
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission, given on the 28th day of September, 1782, to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, a treaty … Includes the full text of the treaty. Signed: Done in Congress at Princeton, this twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Text in five columns. Evans 18245 Journals of the Continental Congress, 415 Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4343 LC copy annotated on verso: Treaty with Sweden. Source: Transfer from…- Contributor: Franklin, Benjamin - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Boudinot, Elias - Sweden - Claypoole, David C. - Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1783
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas the United States in Congress assembled, by their commissioners duly appointed and authorized, did on the twenty-eighth day of November, one … Signed: Cyrus Griffin, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 34, p. 631. Recorded in Dunlap's account book. Cf. JCC 612. Evans 21517 Journals of the Continental Congress, 612 LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation of Congress res. intrusions upon the grounds of the Indians September 1st 1788. Also available…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Griffin, Cyrus - Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1788
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress. December 6, 1775 : We the delegates of the thirteen United Colonies in North America have taken into our most serious consideration a proclamation issued from the Court of St. … Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, sec. Place and date of publication from Evans. Hildeburn describes issue in which printer's name appears as J. Dunlap. Text in two columns. Evans 14567 Journals of the Continental Congress, 74 Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3226 LC copy annotated on verso: Parke 1/Cushing. I.O. 1/1. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress - Dunlap, John - Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialPhiladelphia. In Congress, December 6, 1775 : We the delegates of the thirteen United Colonies in North-America, have taken into our most serious consideration a proclamation issued from the Court at St. … Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, sec. Text in three columns. Bristol B4150a Shipton & Mooney 42965 Journals of the Continental Congress, 75 LC copy imperfect: most of heading and top line of text wanting. Title supplied from Bristol. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress - Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States of America in Congress assembled. A proclamation, declaring the cessation of arms, as well by sea as by land, agreed upon between the United States of America and … Caption title. Signed: Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, this eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. (Attest.) Charles Thomson, sec'ry. Followed by: By His Excellency Benjamin Harrison, Esquire, governor of the commonwealth of Virginia. A Proclamation. ... Given ... this twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord one…- Contributor: Virginia. Governor ( : Harrison) - United States. Continental Congress - Hayes, James - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Boudinot, Elias
- Date: 1783
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Book/Printed MaterialProclamation. By the United States in Congress assembled : Whereas information has been received from the comptroller of the Treasury, that various certificates of final settlement issued by the commissioner for settling … Offering a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of persons guilty of forgery of certificates. Signed and dated: Done at New-York, this second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five ... Richard Henry Lee, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v.…- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Thompson, E. - Lee, Richard Henry - Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas definitive articles of peace and friendship, between the United States of America and His Britannic Majesty, were concluded and signed at … Signed: Given under the seal of the United States, witness His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, our president, at Annapolis, this fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four ... Text, in three columns, includes the text of the treaty. Evans 18819 Journals of the Continental Congress, 424 LC copy signed in ms.: Charles Thomson secy. Also available…- Contributor: Mifflin, Thomas - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Great Britain - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1784
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CollectionDocuments from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 Contains 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most broadsides are one page in length; others range from 1 to 28 pages. A number of these items contain…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1774
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Web PageRelated Resources At the Library of Congress American Memory African-American Pamphlets From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative…