Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/II/1198
TitleThomas Wharton to Samuel Wharton, Philadelphia
Date30 Mar 1775
DescriptionA report prevails here that the unhappy dispute between England and America will shortly be settled, Lord North has "declared himself not to have been the author of those Acts relative to Boston, and that he will give up the authors etc,", is assured the Americans will never be a happy people unless some constitutional line is drawn between Great Britain and them, "it will not be fifty years before we shall be at intestine wars among ourselves as this continent seems now to swarm with inhabitants"
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