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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  Boston, February 27. 1777. Gentlemen, At a time when degenerate Britons are with brutal rage ...
  Date of publication:
  1777
  

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  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  Circular letter concerning the act to prevent monopoly and oppression. "Signed by direction and in behalf of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety of the town of Boston, [blank]"--p. 3. Addressed on p. ...
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  Form of a covenant drawn up by the Committee of Correspondence at Boston; cf. Matthews, Albert. "The solemn league and covenant, 1774," in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. XVIII, 1917, p. 103-122. ...
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  Gentlemen, The evils which we have long foreseen are now come upon this town and province, the long meditated stroke is now given to the civil liberty of this country? ... The bill for blocking up the harbour of Boston is replete with injustice and cruelty ... There can be no doubt of our succeeding to the utmost of our wishes if we universally come into a solemn league, not to import goods from Great Britain ... we have drawn up a form of a covenant ...
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  "Boston, June 8, 1774. Signed by order and in behalf of the Committee of Correspondence for Boston."--p. [3].
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  Boston, April 9, 1773. Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of this town have received the following intelligence ...
  Date of publication:
  1773
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  Circular letter "signed by direction of the Committee for Correspondence in Boston, [blank] town-clerk. To the town-clerk of [blank], to be immediately delivered to the Committee of Correspondence for your town ..." Followed ...
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