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THOMAS HUTCHINSON

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Continuation of the Proceedings

"THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICAN LIBERTIES": RARE FIRST EDITION OF CONTINUATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS, 1770, ISSUED IN BOSTON SAME YEAR AS THE BOSTON MASSACRE, DOCUMENTING THE "CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS" PROVOKED BY LT. GOVERNOR THOMAS HUTCHINSON

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (HUTCHINSON, Thomas) (ADAMS, John) (ADAMS, Samuel) (HANCOCK, John). Continuation of the Proceedings. Boston, 1770.

First edition of the momentous work that documents powerful legal and philosophical debates in a stand-off between Boston patriots and Hutchinson over his command to remove the Massachusetts Court from Boston amidst fury over the recent Boston Massacre, causing colonial leaders, chief among them Samuel and John Adams, to rage against "the most valuable of our Liberties from being wrested from us," this rare edition "almost certainly a major cause" of the Declaration of Independence "accusing the King of calling 'together legislative bodies at place… distance from the repository of their public records for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance." $8000.

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Letters of Governor Hutchinson and Lieut. Governor Oliver

"INSTRUMENTAL OF DISTURBING THE PEACE AND HARMONY OF THE GOVERNMENT, AND CAUSING UNNATURAL AND HATEFUL DISCORDS AND ANIMOSITIES"

(HUTCHINSON, Thomas) (OLIVER, Thomas) (FRANKLIN, Benjamin). Letters of Governor Hutchinson and Lieut. Governor Oliver. London, 1774.

Second English edition, expanded from the American edition, with excerpts of Franklin's testimony before the Privy Council. $2500.

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