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Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782.The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior ...
The Hutchinson letters affair was an incident that increased tensions between the colonists of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the British government prior to the American Revolution. In June 1773, letters written several years earlier by Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver, who were governor and lieutenant governor of the province at the ...
The twelve letters were widely read and reprinted throughout the Thirteen Colonies, and were important in uniting the colonists against the Townshend Acts in the run-up to the American Revolution. According to many historians, the impact of the Letters on the colonies was unmatched until the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense in 1776. [1]
In colonial British America, for instance, colonial governors issued such letters in the name of the Crown. During the American War of Independence , authorization shifted from individual state legislatures , followed by both the states and the Continental Congress , and lastly, after ratification of the Constitution , only Congress authorized ...
This letter-book is one of the most complete collections of writing from 18th century America and provides a valuable glimpse into the life of an elite colonial woman living during this time period. Her writings detail goings on at the plantations, her pastimes, social visits, and even her experiments with indigo over several years.
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. Maier, Pauline R. (1972). From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776. New York, Knopf. ISBN 9780394461908. Maier, Pauline R. (1980). The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams.
A three Pence note, colonial money in British America, printed in 1764 One Shilling note, colonial money in British America, printed in 1772. After the costly French and Indian War, Britain was heavily in debt and began taxing her colonies, without proper colonial representation in Parliament. This was cause for great concern among many of the ...
Renowned historian Clinton Rossiter stated "no one can spend any time on the newspapers, library inventories, and pamphlets of colonial America without realizing that Cato's Letters rather than John Locke's Civil Government was the most popular, quotable, esteemed source for political ideas in the colonial period." [5]