The Stamp Act and the Intolerable Acts

The collection of historical documents on display at the Karpeles Museum includes the signed register of delegates to the 1765 New York Congress that drew up a petition to King George III and the Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act, the official hand-written instructions signed by King George enforcing the Quartering Act in 1767, and a manuscript of a 1767 law taxing the importation of slaves signed by the governor of New Jersey William Franklin, the son of Benjamin Franklin, among many other significant historical documents.