PAPERS ON AMERICAN SUBJECTS BEFORE THE REVOLU-
TIONARY TROUBLES.
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Albany papers; containing, I. reasons and motives on which the
plan of union for the colonies was formed ;-II. reasons against
partial unions ;-III. and the plan of union drawn by B F. and
unanimously agreed to by the commissioners from New Hamp-
shire, Massachusett's Bay, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland,
and Pensylvania, met in congress at Albany, in July 1754, to con-
sider of the best means of defending the king's dominions in Ame-
rica, &c. a war being then apprehended ; with the reasons or
motives for each article of the plan.
Albany papers continued. I. Letter to Governor Shirley, concern-
ing the imposition of direct taxes upon the colonies, without
their consent
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II. Letter to the same, concerning direct taxes in the colonies im-
posed without consent, indirect taxes and the Albany plan of
union
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III. Letter to the same, on the subject of uniting the colonies more
intimately with Great Britain, by allowing them representatives
in parliament
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Plan for settling two Western colonies in North America, with rea-
sons for the plan, 1754
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Report of the committee of aggrievances of the assembly of Pen-
sylvania, dated Feb. 2%, 1757
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An historical review of the constitution and government of Pensyl-
vania, from its origin so far as regards the several points of con-
troversy