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The March 24th edition of the North Carolina Gazette, North Carolina's principal newspaper between 1759 and 1778, includes, among other political and commercial articles, the entirety of a speech delivered by Mr. Cruger describing the rebels'…

A letter from Deputy Governor Nicholas Cooke to the James Rose, the commander of the HMS Rose, stationed in Newport.

A map of Bristol completed in 1750 by surveyor John Rocque. Includes detailed streets and buildings, as well as ten accompanying illustrations featuring the Exchange of Bristol and several views of the city.

An ad in the Public Advertiser, January 28, 1766. Mr. John Dunlop seeking contact with the captain or crew of the Jolly Princess, a ship that traveled from Barbados to Bristol in 1762 and was briefly detained by a French letter of marque ship.

Advertisement in the London Evening Post for American Pine-Bud tea being sold as a medical remedy in Bristol, Piccadilly, Bath, York, Sheffield, and Oxford.

Map-maker James Cook draws out the geography of the Province of South Carolina for government officials in 1773, focusing in on metropolitan areas such as Charleston.

A British official implores Patriots of Charleston, South Carolina to be loyal to the British crown and asks Tories to help convert traitors.

A hand colored map of the island of Jamaica, depicting colonial Jamaica's counties, mills, slave quarters, ports, places to drop anchor, pictorial reliefs. The map also includes two images alluding to the wealth of Jamaica.