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3.036
Title: Remarks on a late protest against the appointment of Mr. Franklin an agent for this province.
Creator(s): Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Publication: 1764.
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


65.028
Title: A letter from a gentleman in London, to his friend in Pennsylvania; with a satire; containing some characteristical strokes upon the manners and principles of the Quakers.
Creator(s): Smith, William, 1727-1803
Publication: 1756.
Subjects: Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


73.027
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 which they derive under the royal grant, as those they have assumed in manifest violation thereof, their father’s charter, and the rights of the people : also, the rights and privileges of the Assembly, and 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(s): Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803
Publication: [1759]
Subjects: Smith, William, 1727-1803. Brief state of the province of Pennsylvania. | Smith, William, 1727-1803. Brief view of the conduct of Pennsylvania. | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


3.027
Title: Plain truth : or, serious considerations on the present state of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania : by a tradesman of Philadelphia. [Sixteen lines in Latin]
Creator(s): Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Publication: [1747]
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.


140.003
Title: The proceedings of some members of assembly, at Philadelphia, April 1728, vindicated from the unfair reasoning and unjust insinuations of a certain remarker.
Creator(s): Kearsley, John, 1684-1772
Publication: [1728]
Subjects: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. | Great Britain. Parliament. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


81.006
Title: The plain dealer : or, a few remarks upon Quaker-politicks, and their attempts to change the government of Pennsylvania : with some observations on the false and abusive papers which they have lately publish’d : numb. I : to be continued.
Creator(s): Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819
Publication: [1764]
Subjects: Quakers -- Pennsylvania. | Society of Friends -- Controversial literature. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


85.012
Title: Last Tuesday morning Mr. Galloway carried a writing containing some reflections on me, to a printer in this city, and desired that he would insert it in his next news paper ...
Creator(s): Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Publication: [1764]
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


81.007
Title: The plain dealer : or, remarks on Quaker politicks in Pennsylvania : numb. III : to be continued.
Creator(s): Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819
Publication: [1764]
Subjects: Society of Friends -- Political activity -- Pennsylvania. | Quakers -- Pennsylvania. | Antiquakeriana. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | 1764.


85.011
Title: To the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, the representation and petition of Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, freeholders and inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania.
Creator(s): Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Publication: 1764
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


65.010
Title: A brief state of the Province of Pennslvania, in which the conduct of their assemblies for several years past is impartially examined, and the true cause of the continual encroachments of the French displayed, more especially the secret design of their late unwarrantable invasion and settlement upon the river Ohio : to which is annexed, an easy plan for restoring quiet in the public measures of that province, and defeating the ambitious views of the French in time to come : in a letter from a gentleman who has resided many years in Pennsylvania to his friend in London.
Creator(s): Smith, William, 1727-1803
Publication: 1755.
Subjects: Society of Friends -- Politics and government. | Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania. | French -- Pennsylvania. | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


27.001
Title: Tit for tat, or the score wip’d off.
Creator(s): Humphrey Scourge | Bryan, George, 1731-1791 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803
Publication: [1758?]
Subjects: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Economic aspects.


85.022
Title: A reply to a piece called The speech of Joseph Galloway, Esquire.
Creator(s): Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Publication: [1764]
Subjects: Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


65.011
Title: A brief view of the conduct of Pennsylvania, for the year 1755; so far as it affected the general service of the British colonies, particularly the expedition under the late General Braddock ... : in a second letter to a friend in London.
Creator(s): Smith, William, 1727-1803
Publication: 1756.
Subjects: Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania. | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Campaigns.


44.001
Title: An die Deutschen, vornemlich die zum wählen berechtigten, in Philadelphia Bucks und Berks Caunty.
Creator(s): Wister, Johannes, 1708-1789
Publication: [1765]
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. | Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784. Wertheste landes-leute, sonderlich in Philadelphia Bucks und Bercks-Caunty. | Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765). | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


85.019
Title: A protest presented to the House of Assembly, by the subscribers, at the close of the late debate there, concerning the sending Mr. Franklin as an assistant to our agent, at the Court of Great-Britain.
Creator(s): Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Publication: [1764]
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


65.017
Title: An examination of the Connecticut claim to lands in Pennsylvania : with an appendix, containing extracts and copies taken from original papers.
Creator(s): Smith, William, 1727-1803
Publication: 1774.
Subjects: Susquehanna Claim, 1753-1808. | Pennsylvania -- Boundaries. | Connecticut -- Boundaries. | Connecticut -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.


73.025
Title: The speech of Joseph Galloway, Esq; one of the members for Philadelphia County : in answer to the speech of John Dickinson, Esq; delivered in the House of Assembly, of the province of Pennsylvania, May 24, 1764 : on occasion of a petition drawn up by order, and then under the consideration of the House; praying His Majesty for a royal, in lieu of a proprietary government.
Creator(s): Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803.
Publication: [1764]
Subjects: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808. Speech delivered in the house of Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, May 24, 1764. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | United States -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800.