Abstract
Works of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Jared Sparks (1856) 111 36 et seq.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
‘The City have offered us the Carpenters Hall, so called, to meet in, and Mr Galloway offers the State House and insists on our meeting there, which he says he has a right to offer as Speaker of that House. The last is evidently the best place, but as he offers, the other party oppose’ (Silas Deane to Mrs Deane, September 1–3, 1774, Letters of Members, ed. Burnett (1921–36) 14–5; see also pp. 8–10).
Carpenters’ Hall was so new that some details in it were not yet completed. The second floor had, however, been rented and occupied by the Library Company of Philadelphia since 1773. The most authoritative historical and descriptive account of Carpenters’ Hall is by Charles E. Peterson, in Historic Philadelphia (American Philosophical Society, Transactions, vol. 43 (1953) 96–128), which is copiously illustrated.
For an account of Thomson’s assumption of his duties, supposedly written by Thomson himself, see Letters of Members, ed. Burnett, 110, note. Galloway’s unhappy comments on the selection of both the meeting place and the secretary are in his letter of this date to Gov. William Franklin (Archives of the State of New Jersey, 1st series, vol. 10 (1886) 477–8).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1970 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Pole, J.R. (1970). Towards Political Independence. In: Pole, J.R. (eds) The Revolution in America 1754–1788. History in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15378-7_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15378-7_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-10283-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-15378-7
eBook Packages: Palgrave History CollectionHistory (R0)