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American archives: consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the North American colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American revolution; and of the Constitution of government for the United States, to the final ratification thereof. In six series ... / By Peter Force. Prepared and published under authority of an act of Congress.
LIBRA Special 973D Am28 Ser.4:v.1-6 Ser.5:v.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies.
- History.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- America.
- United States. Congress--Sources--History.
- United States. Congress.
- Statutes--Great Britain.
- Statutes.
- Statutes--United States.
- Law--United States.
- Law.
- United States--History--Sources.
- United States--Politics and government--Sources.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--Sources.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--Sources.
- Great Britain--Officials and employees--Correspondence.
- United States--Officials and employees--Correspondence.
- United States--Archival resources.
- Archival resources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 9 volumes ; 36 x 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington], [publisher not identified], [1837-53]
- Contents:
- Fourth series. From the king's message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774, to the Declaration of independence by the United States ... Published by M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force. 1837-46. 6 v.
- Fifth series. From the Declaration of independence, July 4, 1776, to the definitive treaty of peace with Great Britain, September 3, 1783 ... Published by M. St. Clair and Peter Force. 1848-53. 3 v.
- Notes:
- The 1st, 2d and 3d series have never appeared.
- No more published. The 5th series, left unfinished, ends with the year 1776.
- Rebound.
- A facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, printed on imitation parchment from the copper plate engraved in 1823 by William J. Stone is bound in series 5, vol. 1, between columns 1596 and 1597.
- Printed in double columns.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 42773
- Sabin 25053
- OCLC:
- 444558
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