1774 petition to George III seeking repeal of the Intolerable Acts
Not to be confused with the 1775 Olive Branch Petition.
1774 Petition to the King
Created
October 1774
Ratified
October 25, 1774
Location
Engrossed copy: Library of Congress
Author(s)
John Dickinson et al.[1]
Signatories
51 delegates to the Continental Congress
Purpose
Avoiding war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies
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The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts. The King's rejection of the Petition, was one of the causes of the later United States Declaration of Independence and American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress had hoped to resolve conflict without a war.
^Wolf, Edwin, The Authorship of the 1774 Address to the King Restudied, 199.
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