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Manuscripts
Copies of papers transmitted to the Council Office
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Contemporary copies and extracts of all such papers and letters transmitted to the Council Office as relate to riots in America in opposition to the putting in execution the Stamp Act...likewise copies of all orders and issued from the council.
mssHM 1947
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Manuscripts
Fair copy of the report prepared by the Board of Trade for George I. The report includes the Introduction, chapters dealing with Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Carolinas; "The Consequence of the Plantation Trade, Account of the French Settlements, "Some Considerations for enlarging and improving his Majesty's American Dominions, by Preventing Encroachments, cultivating a good Understanding with the Indians," and by "putting the Government of the Plantations upon a better Foot."
mssHM 221
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Visual Materials
Kashnor notes, "No other copy is recorded. This was evidently transmitted by the people of New Hampshire in support of their claims before the King in Council. The map is really associated with the history of the State of Vermont, for when the King established the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1740, the new commission of Governor Benning Wentworth extended his jurisdiction westward until it met the boundaries of other provinces, and in this way he extended his boundary westward to Lake Champlain. In 1749 the Governor made the grant of the town of Bennington, and in a few years grants of other townships, which became known as the New Hampshire Grants. In 1763 the Rev. Samuel Peters assembled with some of the settlers on Mt. Pisgah, broke a bottle of spirits with them, and christened the country Verd Mont. In the same year, Governor Colden, of New York, claimed the land held under Wentworth's grants, and issued counter-grants of the same land. He was ordered by the King to stop this, but it was the people who held the grants from Wentworth, who made the New York agents seek a more peaceful locality. The history of the case is well written by Ethan Allen. Whether this map was transmitted in 1740 or 1763, when the troubles started, is uncertain, but it is most probable that it was sent over in the latter year, for the map formerly belonged to General Amherst." Kashnor dates as ca. 1740. MS note: 105 1005 (on matting). Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS text: A copy of the plan, returned by the Kings Comm'rs who were appointed to settle the Boundarys between the Massachusetts Bay & New Hampshire. .
105:1005 M
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Manuscripts
Letterbook of correspondence between Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, then Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, the Privy Council, and various sheriff, bailiffs, and Justices of the Peace, mainly Sir Henry Griffith, and other Yorkshire officials. The correspondence deals with military affairs in wapentakes of Buckrose and Dickering; also, with muster lists, assessments, papers regarding poor relief, etc., copies of letters from Sir Thomas Postumus Hobby, Matthew Hutton and others. The letter book is in two volumes: Vol. I - 131 pages, 33 x 23 cm., sewn into a fragment of a 15th century manuscript on vellum; Vol. II - 44 pages, 30 x 21 cm., both volumes with damaged pages and loss of text.
mssHM 50657
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Manuscripts
In this order the Privy Council directs the governors and garrison commanders at Minorca and Gibraltar to seize Captain Wright and any other privateers who may have seized goods belonging to Turkey.
mssHM 70722
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Rare Books
Largely correspondence between the Governor-general of Canada (Lisgar) and the Colonial office and that office and the Hudson's Bay ompany. Includes despatches from the governor, Sir John Young and from the secretary of state, Earl Granville; correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Hudson's Bay Company, and between the Colonial Office and Sir John Rose.
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