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[ALBANY CONGRESS, 1754]. [KENNEDY, Archibald]. Serious Considerations on the Present State of the Affairs of the Northern Colonies. New York: Printed for the Author, 1754.
8o (178 x 110 mm). 24 pages. (Slightly cropped, catching headlines and a few catchwords, small repair to upper margin of A2.) Modern quarter calf antique, marbled paper boards.
FIRST EDITION, an important document from the historic Albany Congress, a meeting between commissioners from the northern colonies and representatives of the Six Nations in July 1754, to seek means to cement peaceful ties with the tribes and offset French ambitions. The plan adopted was one proposed by Benjamin Franklin. Kennedy, as Recorder General of New York, addressed the convention forcefully, attacking the French ("the Disturbers of the Peace of Mankind, and worse than a Pest"), noting French fortifications in the Ohio Valley and pointing out the threat of a French attack upon Albany and New York "while their Bloodhounds are burning and massacring our Out-settlements." He urges the colonies to unite, expand contacts with the Indians, build forts near Indian villages and recruit a "Flying camp" of mobile Rangers to garrison them. Franklin's novel Albany Plan provided for a voluntary union of the colonies under a central government administered by a President General and a Grand Council of delegates from the colony's assemblies. While it was vetoed by the Crown, the plan had far-reaching consequences in paving the way for the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and the Continental Congress of 1774. Evans 7223; Sabin 37394.
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FIRST EDITION, an important document from the historic Albany Congress, a meeting between commissioners from the northern colonies and representatives of the Six Nations in July 1754, to seek means to cement peaceful ties with the tribes and offset French ambitions. The plan adopted was one proposed by Benjamin Franklin. Kennedy, as Recorder General of New York, addressed the convention forcefully, attacking the French ("the Disturbers of the Peace of Mankind, and worse than a Pest"), noting French fortifications in the Ohio Valley and pointing out the threat of a French attack upon Albany and New York "while their Bloodhounds are burning and massacring our Out-settlements." He urges the colonies to unite, expand contacts with the Indians, build forts near Indian villages and recruit a "Flying camp" of mobile Rangers to garrison them. Franklin's novel Albany Plan provided for a voluntary union of the colonies under a central government administered by a President General and a Grand Council of delegates from the colony's assemblies. While it was vetoed by the Crown, the plan had far-reaching consequences in paving the way for the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and the Continental Congress of 1774. Evans 7223; Sabin 37394.