Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774; Containing the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to the People of Great-Britain, and a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies

Philadelphia, Printed: Boston, Re-printed. And sold by John Boyle, 1774. Good. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet unbound. Complete in (4)pp. but apparently hurriedly misbound: (1-3), 4-24, 33-40, 25-32, 41-43,(1). Untrimmed with rough edges and a some short marginal closed tears, marginal worming to the lower left corner to pp. (1)-8 not reaching the text, paper yellowed with age. There are three small holes in the title page affecting three letters of the word 'Extracts'. Only a good copy, but totally unsophisticated, with the original binding thread intact, and obviously well read. Housed in a protective folder of blue cloth spine, marbled paper boards, printed paper label.

A pivotal document of the American Revolution enacted only months after the Boston Tea Party. It contains the Bill of Rights passed by the Congress in October, 1774, asserting that the colonists, by the immutable laws of nature are entitled to life, liberty and property. These Congressional Resolutions effectively put the American Colonies on a course toward Revolution.

The first edition of these Extracts was published at Philadelphia on October 24, 1774, but Congress did not adjourn until October 27. As a result the Address to the Inhabitants of Quebec, adopted on the 27th, was not included until later printings.

Any Boston printing of the Extracts is rare.

See Evans 13728.

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