Stamp Act collection
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Merchants; Great Britain; Courts; Court and courtiers; Colonies; History
Description: Two reprints (circa 1843) of the British Stamp Act of 1765; two photocopies of stamps; transcript of a Northampton County, Va., court declaration (1766 February 11) that the act was not binding; contemporary copies of three letters (1766 February 28, March 18, and June 13) relating to the act from English merchants to the colonies, the second letter addressed to John Hancock; and copybook containing transcriptions of letters (1765-1766) from the Court of St. James documenting the reaction of King George III and his government to the protests of American colonists to the Stamp Act.
Notes: Open to research.

In part,  positive photocopy and handwritten and typewritten transcripts. [S.l.].

Typewritten copy of Northampton County court document made with permission of Clifford I. Millard. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1932.

Gift, Charles P. Greenough, 1902-1905.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.