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The Petition to the King was a petition sent to George III of Great Britain by the First Continental Congress. The petition expressed loyalty to the king and hoped for redress of grievances relating to the Intolerable Acts and other issues that helped foment the American Revolution.

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Further reading

  • Wolf, Edwin. "The Authorship of the 1774 Address to the King Restudied". The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1965), pp. 190-224. Available on JSTOR.
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Political origins of the American Revolution
American resolves, declarations, petitions, essays and pamphlets from Stamp Act (1765) to the Declaration of Independence (July 1776)
Following the
Stamp Act (1765)
Following the
Townshend Acts (1767)
Following the
Coercive Acts (1774)
Chestertown Resolves (May 1774) • Bush River Resolution (March 1775)
Suffolk Resolves (September 1774)
Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) • Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) • Tryon Resolves (August 1775) • Halifax Resolves (April 1776)
Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) • Hanover Resolves (July 1774) • Fincastle Resolutions (January 1775) • Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776)
Declaration and Resolves (October 1774) • Continental Association (October 1774) • Petition to the King (October 1774)
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