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Title
Letter to --
Names
Ingersoll, Jared (Creator)
Collection

Thomas Addis Emmet collection

Lossing's Field Book of Revolution

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1766-02-01
Place: New Haven, Conn.
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S. 2 pp. Fo
Description
In answer to the objections made to his conduct relative to the Stamp Act, he states that he went to London on private business; by request of the Assembly he assisted the agent of the colony, but received no pay; there is nothing in his letters about a change of government as printed in the New London Gazette; explains his motives in writing to the stamp commissioners; he has always thought that the taxation of America by Parliament was of dangerous tendency, but he supposed the people would submit; the common law courts ought to proceed as usual; he has now left the affairs of distributor, and is determined to take his share with the people in the danger of the matter.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616
MSS Unit ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 4897
Archives EAD ID: 276823
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ac6a6a00-6a37-0139-bd01-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1766: Created
  • 2025: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

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APA Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1766). Letter to -- Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bb266ec4-a7a0-320d-e040-e00a180616a6

Wikipedia Citation

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Letter to --