Pennsylvania Stamp Act and Non-Importation Resolutions Collection

: Merchants and Traders of Philadelphia to Merchants and Manufacturers of Great Britain, [1767]; Letter from Philadelphian Merchants and Traders to Merchants and Manufacturers of Great Britain. Protest against imposition of the Townshend Duties (on paper, glass, tea, etc.).

: Merchants of New York resolutions on Non-Importation; A resolution on non-importation from New York Merchants. An agreement not to import British goods, directly or indirectly.

: Penn, John to Captain Holland, 1765 October 2; Letter from John Penn to Capt Holland. As Hughes refuses to take charge of the stamped papers, Penn orders James Hawker take them.

: Penn, John to Captain James Hawker, 1765 October 2; Letter from John Penn to Capt. James Hawker.

: Public notice to James and Drinker; Public notice to James and Drinker to leave a public notice of whether they intend to resign their commissions.

: Records of imports into Philadelphia; Records of imports into Philadelphia from December 5, 1775 to April, 1775, with a later series of personal accounts (1780), possibly kept by Thomas Bradford., American Philosophical Society

: Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to Sons of Liberty of Philadelphia, 1766 February 21; Letter from the Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to Sons of Liberty of Philadelphia. "As you have expressed yourselves so warmly in the Glorious Cause of Liberty, we cannot help mentioning our Surprise at your suffering even the least Appearance of such an odious thing of a Stamp Distributor, to exist in your Province, and therefore, presume we may claim to know, from you, the reasons thereof."

: Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to William Bradford, 1766 February 13; Letter from the Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to William Bradford. Proposes forming an Association "in order to form an Union of the Colonies, in imitation of our brethren in Connecticut, Boston, etc... and you may be assured it is the deliberate and determined resolution of our Brethren to the eastward, as well as here, not to be enslaved by any power on Earth, without opposing force, to force."

: To the Commissioners appointed by the East-India Company, for the sale of tea, in America.; Protest against the Commissioners' accepting "a paltry bribe of a petty Commission, to rivet the Shackles of Slavery on your American Brethren."

: Unknown author to John Hughes; Letter to John Hughes from an unknown author.

: Unknown author to Sons of Liberty of New York, 1766 February 15; Letter from an unknown author to the Sons of Liberty of New York. A statement of support for non-importation and offer to organize a Sons of Liberty of Philadelphia.

: Wharton, Thomas and Isaac, James and Drinker, Jonathan Browne to George Clymer et al., 1773 December 2; Letter from the Philadelphia Tea Commissioners. Notice of impending arrival of a tea ship, the Polly, subject to the tea tax.