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Name : John Dickinson
Dates : born 1732–died 1808
Nationality : American
Occupation : essayist; lawyer; pamphleteer; plantation-owner; politician
Correspondents include : Richard Bassett; George Read [senior]
Current document count : 2 written; 0 received . . . .
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- An address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados. Occasioned by a late letter from them to their agent in London.
- A caution; or, Reflections on the present contest between France and Great-Britain.
- A copy of a letter from a gentleman in Virginia, to a merchant in Philadelphia.
- An essay on the constitutional power of Great-Britain over the colonies in America; with the resolves of the committee for the province of Pennsylvania, and their instructions to their representatives in Assembly.
- The Farmer's and Monitor's letters, to the inhabitants of the British colonies.
- The late regulations respecting the British colonies on the continent of America considered, in a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in London. : [Two lines in Latin]
- Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British colonies.
- 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.
- A reply to a piece called The speech of Joseph Galloway, Esquire. By John Dickinson.
- 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.
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