Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America; and the Principles of Law and Polity, Applied to the American Colonies. Written by Governor Bernard, at Boston, in the Years 1763, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
- Francis Bernard (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America is a 1774 pamphlet by Francis Bernard, who served as royal governor of Massachusetts during the turbulent years leading up to the American Revolution. The work compiles letters Bernard wrote in Boston between 1763 and 1768, offering a loyalist administrator’s perspective on the principles of law, governance, and trade that he believed should govern the relationship between Great Britain and its American colonies.
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The text of these 18th century pamphlets has been converted by machine from scanned PDFs of the original microfilm copies. While the text has been machine-proofed, transcription errors may still remain. For example, the 18th-century long S, ſ , may be rendered as “f,” some words may be incorrectly transcribed, and there may be repeated words or phrases.