Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000301254/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 29 of
29
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""For four eventful months in the summer and fall of 1783, Princeton served as the meeting place of the Continental Congress and the capital of the new American nation. Driven from Philadelphia by a Continental Army mutiny, Congress moved to Princeton in June of 1783, not long after one of its greatest triumphs - the ratification of a provisional treaty of peace with Great Britain ... Charles Thomson was superbly equipped to chronicle the story of the Continental Congress' stay in Princeton and its often uneasy relationship with the town. Thomson was one of the leaders in the revolutionary struggle against Great Britain in Philadelphia for almost a decade after the Stamp Act Crisis, and from 1774 to 1789 he occupied the strategic position of Secretary to Congress"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b343030.
- catalog contributor b343031.
- catalog contributor b343032.
- catalog contributor b343033.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1775-1783.".
- catalog created "1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1985.".
- catalog description ""For four eventful months in the summer and fall of 1783, Princeton served as the meeting place of the Continental Congress and the capital of the new American nation. Driven from Philadelphia by a Continental Army mutiny, Congress moved to Princeton in June of 1783, not long after one of its greatest triumphs - the ratification of a provisional treaty of peace with Great Britain ... Charles Thomson was superbly equipped to chronicle the story of the Continental Congress' stay in Princeton and its often uneasy relationship with the town. Thomson was one of the leaders in the revolutionary struggle against Great Britain in Philadelphia for almost a decade after the Stamp Act Crisis, and from 1774 to 1789 he occupied the strategic position of Secretary to Congress"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xlv, 100 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0878110259".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Library,".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1775-1783.".
- catalog subject "E303 .T45 1985".
- catalog subject "Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.".
- catalog subject "Thomson, Hannah Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Thomson, Hannah.".
- catalog subject "United States. Continental Congress History.".
- catalog subject "United States. Continental Congress.".
- catalog title "Congress at Princeton : being the letters of Charles Thomson to Hannah Thomson, June-October 1783 / edited by Eugene R. Sheridan and John M. Murrin.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".