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• A serious address to the inhabitants of the colony of New-York : containing a full and minute survey of the Boston-Port Act, calculated to excite our inhabitants to conspire, with the other colonies on this continent, in extricating that unhappy town from its unparalleled distresses, and for the actual redemption, and security of our general rights and liberties
  by: Citizen of New-York
  Published: (1774)
• A letter to a friend : containing remarks on certain passages in a sermon, preached by the Right Reverend John, Lord Bishop of Landaff, before the Incorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts, at the anniversary Meeting, in the Parish Church of St. Mary Le Bow, London, February 20, 1767; in which the highest Reproach is undeservedly cast upon the American Colonies. By Charles Chauncy, D. D. Pastor of the first Church of Christ in Boston. Boston, in N.E. printed MDCCLXVII. London, reprinted MDCCLXVIII. With a supplement, containing an answer to the plea of T.B. Chandler, D. D. of New Jersey, for American Bishops: Wherein his Reasonings are shewn to be fallacious, and his Claims indefensible. By a Presbyter in old England
  by: Chauncy, Charles
  Published: (1768)
• American independence the interest and glory of Great-Britain : A new edition. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing two additional Letters to the Legislature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American Government. And a postscript, containing new Arguments on the Subject; A Draught for a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring Peace and Harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same: Together with The essential Materials for a proposed Grand British League and Confederacy, to be entered into by Great-Britain and all the States of British America. The whole of which shews, beyond Denial or Doubt, that by granting the Colonists an unrestrained civil Freedom and Legislative Independence, we may most effectually secure their future Commercial Dependence upon, and consequently shall best promote the Interest and support the Glory of, Great-Britain. It is not to be hoped, in the corrupt State of human Nature, that any Nation will be subject to another, any longer than it finds its own Account in it, and cannot help itself. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * No Creatures suck the Teats of their Dams longer than they can draw Milk from them, or can provide themselves with better Food; nor will any Country continue their Subjection to another, only because their great Grand-Mothers were acquainted. This is the Course of human Affairs, and all wise States will always have it before their Eyes. Trenchard on Plantations and Colonies, in Cato's Letters, No. 106. Anno 1722
  by: Cartwright, John
  Published: (1775)
• The committee (consisting of the following members, namely Mr. Samuel Adams [and 25 others]) : appointed by the town of Boston to receive donations for the charitable purpose of relieving and employing the poor, suffering by means of the act of Parliament, commonly called the Boston Port-Bill, would gratefully acknowledge the receipt of many generous collections
  Published: (1774)
• In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 6, 1774 : The operation of the cruel and iniquitous Boston-port-bill, that instrument of ministerial vengeance, having reduced our once happy capital ... It is therefore resolved, that it be recommended to our constituents the inhabitants of the other towns ... that they farther contribute liberally to alleviate the burden
  Published: (1774)