The true sentiments of America
Subtitle: contained in a collection of letters sent from the House of Representatives of the province of Massachusetts Bay to several persons of high rank in this kingdom : together with certain papers relating to a supposed libel on the governor of that province, and a dissertation on the canon and the feudal law.
Contributors: Hollis, Thomas, 1720-1774.; Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.; Adams, John, 1735-1826.; Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.; Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.; Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for J. Almon ...
Published: 1768
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- To 1775.; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
Other titles: Trve sentiments of America; Colonial pamphlets.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate: Force Collection.
Ford, P.L.  Franklin bibliography, 302
ESTC T4118
Compiled by Thomas Hollis.
Signatures: [A]² B-K⁴ L⁴(L3+chi1) M-O⁴ P1 R-Y⁴.
"Includes the petition to the King of Jan. 20, 1768; the letter of Jan. 12, 1768, to Dennis Deberdt; letters to Shelburne, Conway, Camden, Chatham, and others--most of these papers being written by Samuel Adams; Joseph Warren's attack on Bernard from the Boston gazette, and the Dissertation on the canon and feudal law, attributed here to Jeremy Gridley, but written in fact by John Adams"--J. Winsor, Narr. and crit. hist., v. 6, 1888, p. 83.
"Postscript" (p. 143-158) contains Benjamin Franklin's "Causes of the American discontents before 1768" originally printed in the London Chronicle of Jan. 7, 1768. Signed at end: F.S. [Franklin's Seal]. Cf. Ford.
Also issued as vol. 2, no. 6 in: A collection of tracts, on the subjects of taxing the British colonies in America, and regulating their trade. London : Printed for J. Almon, 1773.
LC copy imperfect: p. [3-4] wanting.