Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson: Volume 3Jane E. Calvert During the years 1764 through 1766, John Dickinson became a leading figure in the Pennsylvania Assembly and in the growing American resistance to unjust British taxation. The documents in this volume show that, in both roles, he sought to protect the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans. In the 1764 Assembly, after working to punish those responsible for the slaughter of peaceful Indians, Dickinson challenged Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Galloway in their plan to abolish Pennsylvania’s unique Quaker constitution that secured liberty of conscience and place the colony under the control of the Crown. Then, in 1765, he served as primary draftsman at the Stamp Act Congress in New York, producing the first official American documents of the Revolutionary Era. In his private capacity, Dickinson continued to write through 1765 and 1766, publishing, among other documents, the first practical advice to Americans on how to resist Great Britain. The present volume also contains draft legislation, fascinating case notes from his legal practice, and personal correspondence. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION | |
EDITORIAL METHODOLOGY | |
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES | |
1764 | |
To Be Lett The Pennsylvania Gazette January 5 | |
Draft of An Act for the Payment of Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and FortySeven Pounds Sterling in Certain Proportions to Several Colonies in Ame... | |
January 12February | |
JD et al Reply to the Governors Message January 20 | |
Interrogatories for Richard Dennis v Warrick Coats et al c MayAugust | |
Notice of Debt Recovery The Pennsylvania Gazette June 13 | |
To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson July 15 | |
From Catherine Hutchinson Moland July 26 | |
To the Electors of Philadelphia County The Pennsylvania Gazette August 8 | |
Documents Related to the Stamp Act Congress | |
Draft One of Instructions to the Committee to the Stamp Act Congress | |
September | |
From Jacob Gooding January 21 | |
Edits on a Draft of A Supplement to the Act Intituled An Act for Taking Lands in Execution for Payment of Debts January 27February | |
Draft of An Act for restraining Lunaticks c January | |
JD and Joseph Galloway An Act for Preventing Tumults and Riotous Assemblies and for the More Speedy and Effectual Punishing the Rioters Febru... | |
A Letter to the Inhabitants of the Frontiers on Their Intended Expedition Against the Indians Under the Protection of the Government February 39 | |
Opinion on Charles Marshalls Title to Land in Worcester Philadelphia County February 8 | |
To Isaac Norris February 9 | |
From William Allason February 18 | |
To Isaac Norris February 29 | |
JD et al Report on Jeffery Amhersts Letters March 3 | |
Draft of Protest in the Assembly against the Clause for Making Paper Bills of Credit a Legal Tender in Payment of All Contracts Proprietary Sterling ... | |
From Hannah Moland April 9 | |
From Gilbert Barkly June 2 | |
William Bradford June | |
Anthony Armbruster June | |
A Protest against a Resolution of the Assembly of Pennsylvania for Petitioning the King to Change the Colony of Pennsylvania from a Proprietary to ... | |
Henry Miller? July | |
To William Peters August 3 | |
From Nathaniel Smithers August 16 | |
In Answer to the Speech of John Dickinson Esq Delivered in the House of Assembly May 24 1764 Philadelphia William Dunlap August | |
To Joseph Galloway September 1 | |
William Bradford | |
September | |
JD and Unknown The Kennel Raker c September | |
Excerpt of an AntiRoyal Government Article The Pennsylvania Journal supplement September 27 | |
William Dunlap September | |
William Bradford October | |
Representative to the Pennsylvania Assembly from Philadelphia County The Pennsylvania Gazette October 4 | |
Request to the Printer October 2 The Pennsylvania Gazette October 4 | |
To Hannah Moland October 4 | |
To William Peters October 10 | |
To Isaac Norris October 24 | |
William Bradford October | |
From Catherine Hutchinson Moland October 30 | |
Or Annals of Literature vol 18 London Archibald Hamilton October 31617 | |
By Several Hands vol 31 London Ralph Griffiths October 1764 318 | |
Benjamin Franklin and David Hall November | |
Notes for Dominus Rex v John Bryan and John McManus November 22 | |
Observations on Mr Franklins Remarks on a Late Protest November | |
Notes for Lockermans Lessee v Joseph Liston November | |
Notes for Lockermans Lessee v Edmund Liston n d | |
Or Annals of Literature vol 18 London Archibald Hamilton November 397 | |
Or a New Treatise on Large Noses Philadelphia Andrew Steuart | |
Notes for Susannah White v John Cloud c 1764 | |
Draft One of An Act for the Relief of the Poor January 1015 | |
JD et al Draft of An Act for the Relief of the Poor January 30 | |
Draft of An Act for the Better Employment Relief and Support of Poor January 10February | |
By Several Hands vol 32 London Ralph Griffiths January 6768 | |
Notes for Dominus Rex v Andrew Yeatman February 19 | |
Anthony Armbruster February | |
Statement of Daniel Tice in Overseers of Newtown Township v Overseers of Marple Township February | |
Notes for Overseers of Newtown Township v Overseers of Marple Township February | |
From Edward Lloyd III March 3 | |
Anonymous The Merit of Mr Dickinsons Speech The Pennsylvania Gazette March 14 | |
From Edward Lloyd III March 17 | |
To William Fisher Samuel Smith and Joseph Swift March 30 | |
From Joseph Moland April 1 | |
R John Hughes Remarks on JDs and Joseph Galloways Speeches The Pennsylvania Gazette April 4 | |
From George Garnett April 15 | |
To Be Sold The Pennsylvania Gazette April 18 | |
From Parnel Davenport April 29 | |
To James Humphreys May 6 | |
To Warrick Coats c MayAugust | |
The Joint and Several Answers of Warrick Coats et al c MayAugust | |
September | |
JD et al Draft One of the Resolutions of the Pennsylvania Assembly on the Stamp Act c September | |
JD et al Draft Two of the Resolutions of the Pennsylvania Assembly on the Stamp Act September 2021 | |
JD et al Draft Three of the Resolutions of the Pennsylvania Assembly on the Stamp Act September 21 | |
JD et al Resolutions of the Pennsylvania Assembly on the Stamp Act September 21 | |
From Edward Lloyd III September 23 | |
From Thomas W Moore October 5 | |
To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson October 7 | |
Announcement of Delegates to the Stamp Act Congress October 7 1765 The New York Mercury October 14 | |
Draft One of the Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress September 29October | |
JD et al Draft Two of the Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress October 818 | |
JD et al Draft Three of the Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress October | |
JD et al Fragment of Draft Four of the Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress October | |
JD et al Final Manuscript Version of the Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress October | |
Petition to the King from the Stamp Act Congress October 21 1765 The Pennsylvania Gazette April 24 1766 | |
Benjamin Franklin and David Hall November | |
William Bradford December | |
From Samuel Pike December 14 | |
Draft to William Pitt December 21 | |
From John St Clair December 23 | |
Notes for Lessee of Peter Sigfreidus Alricks v David Stewart c 1765 | |
To Francis Alison January 10 | |
From Samuel Pike February 8 | |
From Robert Smith February 11 | |
Advertisement for Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies on the Continent of North America The London Evening Post February 20 | |
Essay on a Report Concerning the Petition for a Change of Government March | |
From Samuel Morris March 119 | |
The Sons of Liberty The Sons of Liberty in the County of Sussex on Delaware to the Sons of Liberty Residing in the Northern and Southern Colonie... | |
From William Allason April 24 | |
Notes for Samuel Pikes Lessee v Samuel Hoare c April | |
Anonymous Extract of a Letter from London The Pennsylvania Gazette May 22 | |
From William Samuel Johnson May 24 | |
From Elizabeth Moland St Clair May 26 | |
Draft Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados May 119 | |
From Samuel Morris May 119 | |
To William Bradford c May 2131 | |
Summary Queries and Responses for Brandywine Hundred v Christiana Hundred May | |
Notes for Brandywine Hundred v Christiana Hundred c May | |
William Bradford c May 21June | |
From Joseph Reed June 2 | |
From Christopher Gadsden June 22 | |
George Esmand JuneAugust | |
From John Williams July 6 | |
To George Read July 9 | |
To John Baynton Samuel Wharton and George Morgan July 10 | |
To James Sayre July 11 | |
From George Read July 28 | |
George Esmand | |
George Esmand JulyAugust | |
From Catherine Hutchinson Moland August 8 | |
From Elizabeth Moland St Clair September 4 | |
From John Williams September 30 | |
From John St Clair October 12 | |
To Thomas Adam October 22 | |
From John St Clair October 24 | |
From Henry Melchior Mühlenberg October 27 | |
From Elizabeth Moland St Clair October | |
Draft of An Act for the Better Securing the Estates of Persons Deceased January 1765October 1766 | |
Andrew Steuart c October | |
From Edmund Jenings November 10 | |
From Edward Lloyd III November 15 | |
Opinion on Notes Emitted by Some Merchants December | |
APPENDICES INDEX | |
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