record number: 011159

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Dates:

8 July 1775

Original paper slip text:8 July 1775

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA and other delegates in Continental Congress

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Recipient:

George III

Original paper slip text:to George III of Great Britain: Olive Branch Petition

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Title:

Length:

9 p.

Document Type:

JA—Continental Congress: Speeches and Writings

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Notes:

U.S., Continental Congress Misc., Portfolio 104
Original in P.R.O., London. Americas & West Indies, 279:251.
Formerly listed as U.S., Continental Congress Misc. New collection name per RFK, 3/10/2010.
Delivered to Lord Dartmouth, 1 Sept. 1775.
See also JCC, 2:158–162, 3:509 (Bibliog. No. 56).
Formerly listed as acc. 2791 but no copy made; Stevens, "Facsimiles," held at MHS, Oversize E203.S84. --SEG, 10/6/11
Printed pamphlet, 8vo, Phila. 1775; not in Evans or Sabin. Listed in Goodspeed's The Month, 36:120 (Jan. 1965) $375.00. Rare.
Rare Petition of the Congress to the King
The Humble Petition of the Twelve United Colonies, by the Delegates in Congress, to the King. 8vo, cloth with mor. back, (title & following leaf repaired, with loss of a few letters of text on both). Phila., 1775.
Not in Evans or Hildeburn & not located in the Union Catalogue. Ford (Some Materials for a Bibliography of . . . the Continental Congress) does not list this but writes of the Petition itself:
"The Petition was reported to Congress by . . . John Adams, Thomas Johnson, Patrick Henry, John Rutledge, Richard Henry Lee, & John Dickinson, & the draft is claimed for both of the latter two. . . ."
Information transferred from blue slips now deleted. ER 5/2/2016

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Library of Congress

From the collection: U.S. Continental Congress Records

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Printed :

Stevens, Facsimiles

Original paper slip text:Stevens, Facsimiles

Full citation:

Benjamin Franklin Stevens, "B.F. Stevens’s Facsimiles of manuscripts in European archives relating to America, 1773-1783 : with descriptions, editorial notes, collations, references and translation." 25 vols. (London : Photographed and printed by Malby & sons, 1889-1898)

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