| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | A true and impartial state of the province of Pennsylvania: Containing, an exact account of the nature of its government; the power of the proprietaries, and their governors; as well those they have assumed in manifest violation thereof, their father's charter, and the rights of the people, which they claim under the said grant, charter, and laws of their country, confirmed by the royal approbation. With a true narrative of the dispute between the governors and assemblies, respecting the grants of supplies so often made by the latter, and rejected by the former. In which is demonstrated, by incontestable vouchers, that arbitrary proprietary instructions, have been the true and only cause of the refusal of such supplies, and the late defenceless state of the province. The whole being a full answer to the pamphlets intitled A brief state, and A brief view, &c. of the conduct of Pennsylvania
| | | | Creator: | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | | | | Publication: | Printed by W. Dunlap, Philadelphia,1759. | | | | Notes: | Attributed to Benjamin Franklin. | | | | Call #: | F11DA T866 Vault | | | | Extent: | 1 p. leaf, v, [3]-173, 34, [1] p. 12mo. | | | | Subjects: | Smith, William, -- 1727-1803. -- A brief state of the province of Pennsylvania | Smith, William, -- 1727-1803. -- A brief view of the conduct of Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775 | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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