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The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III 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.
The Second Continental Congress issued a "Second Petition to the King" in 1775, known as the Olive Branch Petition.
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.
Virginia Resolves (May 1765) • Declaration of Rights and Grievances (October 1765) • An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)
Following the Townshend Acts (1767)
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767) • Massachusetts Circular Letter (February 1768) • Boston Pamphlet (1772) • Sheffield Declaration (January 1773)