To the tradesmen, farmers, and other inhabitants of the city and county of Philadelphia : And will you suffer the credit and liberties of the province of Pennsylvania to be sacrificed to the interests of a few merchants in Philadelphia? ...

To the public : An anonymous letter having been published and thrown about the town, highly reflecting on a very respectable body of men in this city ...
by: Pacificus

To the free and patriotic inhabitants of the city of Philad. & province of Pennsylvania : Brethren and fellow citizens, country men and friends. It is with the deepest concern I have lately hear'd the members of a very respectable assembly of artificers, mechanics, tradesmen, &c. at the state-house ...
by: Lover of liberty and a mechanic's friend
Published: (1770)

To the freeholders, merchants, tradesmen and farmers, of the city and county of Philad : Gentlemen, An advertisement having been fixed up in several public places in this city, on Wednesday morning, addressed to you, and signed a tradesman ...
by: Freeholder
Published: (1770)

To the inhabitants of the city and county of Philadelphia : Gentlemen, You are come here this day to determine whether you will be freemen or slaves. ...
by: Pennsylvanian
Published: (1770)

Letters to the Merchant's Committee of Philadelphia, submitted to the consideration of the public.

To the merchants, and traders, of the city of Philadelphia : Gentlemen, The worthy and patriotic writer of the Farmer's letters, has clearly demonstrated, that the liberties of the British colonies in America, have been most cruelly violated by the late parliamentary impositions on paper, glass, &c. for the sole purpose of raising a revenue upon us without our consent ...
Published: (1768)

A copy of a letter from a gentleman in Virginia, to a merchant in Philadelphia.
by: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Published: (1768)

An Address to the merchants, freeholders, and all other the [as printed] inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania in particular, and the southern colonas printed : [One line in Latin from Sallust with one line English translation].

The Following address was read at a meeting of the merchants, at the Lodge, in Philadelphia, on Monday, the 25th of April, 1768.

Hartford, June 6, 1770 : At a meeting of the principal merchants and traders of the colony of Connecticut. Taking into consideration the ... merchants and traders of the town of New-Port, in the colony of Rhode Island, in breaking thro' & violating the non-importation agreement ... Voted and resolved that for the future, and until the revenue acts are repealed ... we will not have any connection or dealing with the inhabitants of the town of New-Port ...

From the Meeting for Sufferings, in London : the 10th day of the third month, 1769, to Friends in the several provinces in North-America.
Published: (1769)

Advertisement : The present alarming crisis, renders it necessary for the inhabitants of this city and county to be convened, in order to deliberate on measures to support the liberties of this country ...
Published: (1770)

Boston, Sept. 11, 1770 : Sir, On Friday last at a meeting of the body at Faneuil-Hall, a committee of ten persons were appointed to wait upon the gentlemen who had subscribed not to import goods from Great-Britain, until a general importation took place, and desire their attendance at the adjournment of said meeting, which will be at 3 o'clock, p.m. on Thursday next; and in compliance with said appointment, the committee desire you would attend said meeting accordingly. ...
Published: (1770)

The Merchants of this town, and all others connected with trade ... : are hereby notified that the committee appointed at their late meeting, to consider the most effectual measures to strengthen the union of the colonies, and support the non-importation agreement, are now ready to make a report: A meeting is therefore desired at Faneuil-Hall ... to consider the same ...
Published: (1770)

The Merchants and traders in this town in the agreement subscribed by them the 17th of October last, engaged that the orders they might send for goods to be shipped them from Great-Britain should be on condition that the acts imposing duties for the purpose of raising a revenue in America should be totally repealed ... the merchants here thinking it of the utmost importance that the traders in all the colonies should act upon the same plan ...

A pill for the committee of non-importation.
by: Paracelsus

Whereas this province labours under a heavy debt, incurred in the course of the late war : and the inhabitants by this means must be for some time subject to very burthensome taxes ...
Published: (1767)

New-York, May 17, 1770. Advertisement : The subscribers to the non-importation agreement, are desired to meet at the Exchange ... to consider of a letter received from Philadelphia, relative to the non-importation agreement ...
Published: (1770)

Annapolis, (in Maryland) June 22, 1769 : We, the subscribers, His Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the merchants, traders, freeholders, mechanics, and other inhabitants of the province of Maryland, seriously considering the present state and condition of the province, and being sensible, that there is a necessity to agree upon such measures, as may tend to discourage, and as much as may be, prevent the use of foreign luxuries and superfluities ...

Two letters : Circular letter, from the late committee of this city to the committees of the other colonies. Philadelphia, September 25, 1770. Gentlemen, We are sorry to inform you that a number of our importers of British merchandize ... are resolved to make such an alteration in our non-importation agreement, as will render it of no use ...
Published: (1770)

Advertisement : As the agreements entered into by merchants and traders of the town of Boston ... to restrict the importation and sale of British goods in this town, we the masters of the ships and subscribers, sent and employed by merchants in Scotland, to build ships here for their use ... take this method of application to the tradesmen and others employed in any branch of ship business ...
Published: (1769)

Notification : The freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, qualifas printed] ... to take into consideration what measures are most proper to be adopted under the present critical aspect of the times; agreeable to a petition of a number of the inhabitants for that purpose ...
Published: (1768)

A Card, number 1 : A member of the Church of England, and a Son of Liberty, presents his compliments to those gentlemen, who are for an immediate and untimely importation of goods from Great-Britain ...
Published: (1770)

Annapolis, May 23, 1769 : Sir, Yesterday there was a meeting of a considerable number of the principal inhabitants of this county, when the plan of an association was formed, a copy of whereof we inclose you, which is expected to be signed very generally by every degree of the people here. ...

To the public : All lovers of peace and good order must surely observe with great pleasure the prudent behaviour of this province, while the other colonies in general, under pretence of asserting their invaded rights, are shewing a spirit of dissaffection, that may perhaps greatly disturb the public tranquillity.
by: Pacificus

The True Sons of Liberty and supporters of the non-importation agreement, are determined to resent any the least insult or menace offer'd to any one or more of the several committees appointed by the body at Faneuil-Hall, and chastise any one or more of them as they deserve; and will also support the printers in any thing the committees shall desire them to print.
Published: (1768)

New-York, June 12, 1770. Advertisement : Whereas a number of persons, who are immediately interested in the importation of goods from Great Britain; have entered into a scheme, to frustrate the laudable endeavours of those patriotic merchants ... who are determined to continue, and support the non-importation agreement ... It is therefore requested that every friend to the liberties of his country, will not fail to meet in the Fields ... to counteract such a design ...
Published: (1770)

A state of importations from Great-Britain into the port of Boston : From the beginning of January 1770. To which is added an account of all goods that have been re-shipt from the above port for Great-Britain since January 1769.
by: Mein, John
Published: (1770)

At a meeting of the merchants & traders, at Faneuil-Hall, on the 23d January 1770 : The following votes were passed, viz. ...
Published: (1770)

The Subscribers to the Non-importation agreement, are desired to meet at Davenport's Tavern, in Third Street; on Saturday next, at 10 o'clock; to choose eleven persons to supply the place of that number of the committee, who resigned at the meeting of the subscribers, this day. September 20, 1770.
Published: (1770)

Seven hints for all who will take them /
by: Searson, John
Published: (1770)

Thursday, September 20, 1770 : At this juncture, when measures are pursuing to dissolve the union of the colonies, every subscriber to our non-importation agreement ... it is hoped will attend the meeting at Davenport's tavern ...
Published: (1770)

A Number of the subscribers to the nonimportation agreement being of opinion that the sentiments of the subscribers to that agreement should be taken at a general meeting, whether an alteration shall be made therein : Conformable to the said agreement, the subscribers are hereby requested to meet at Davenport's Tavern, on Thursday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, to take the same into consideration, and determine thereon.
Published: (1770)

The Boston merchants and the non-importation movement.
by: Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943
Published: (1968)

A state of the importations from Great-Britain into the port of Boston : from the beginning of Jan. 1769, to Aug. 17th 1769 : with the advertisements of a set of men who assumed to themselves the title of "all the well disposed merchants," who entered into a solemn agreement, (as they called it) not to import goods from Britain, and who undertook to give a "true account" of what should be imported by other persons : the whole taken from the Boston chronicle, in which the following papers were first published.
by: Irving, Thomas, 1738?-1800

Boston, October 31, 1767 : Gentlemen, In compliance with the orders of the town it is our honour to serve, we inclose you their votes past [as printed] the 28th instant; and doubt not ... you will promote similar measures ...
Published: (1767)