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John Smith's 1616 Letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain
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Letter describing Smith being saved by Pocahontas
The Province of Massachusetts Bay requests aid from Queen Anne, 1708
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"A petition from the Massachusetts colonists requesting help in quelling the hostile Indians allied with the French during Queen Anne’s War. Gives insight into the conflict’s costs upon New England. Discusses the Indians’ barbarity and the French setting prices for scalps. Describes their need of aid and the ineffectiveness of regular troops against the Indians. Asks Queen Anne to enlist the help of Mohawks and other friendly Indian nations. Comments on trade, French holdings, and the supply of masts for ships. Signed by Oliver as clerk of the House of Representatives."
Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York, 1676 - Exemplified by Queen Anne; 1712

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Authentick memoirs of the life and conduct of her Grace, Sarah, late Dutchess of Marlborough... by Sarah Jennings Churchill
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containing a genuine narrative of her Grace's conduct, from her first coming to court, to the death of her Royal Mistress Queen Anne, and ... to Her Grace's death. Likewise all her Grace's letters to the Queen, and her Majesty's answers. To which is prefix'd, the last will and testament of her Grace, from a true copy of the original, lodg'd in Doctor's Commons.
The Best of Defoe's Review: An Anthology by Daniel Defoe
Call Number: DA490 .D35
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Bombay in the Days of Queen Anne by John Burnell
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781409416784
Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Volume 72
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the Reign of Anne by Robert Pentland
Call Number: DA25 .F6 1968
Preserved in the Public record office
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill by Richard Hill
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
Envoy extraordinary from the court of St. James to the Duke of Savoy in the reign of Queen Ann from July 1703, to May 1706
Later Stuart Tracts by George A. Aitken
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Letters and Correspondence, Public and Private, of the Right Honourable Henry St. John by Henry St. John
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lord visc. Bolingbroke; during the time he was secretary of state to Queen Anne; with state papers, explanatory notes, and a translation of the foreign letters, &c. By Gilbert Parke.
Letters from the English Kings and Queens by R. R. Hinman
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Charles II, James II, William and Mary, Anne, George II, &c. : to the governors of the Colony of Connecticut, together with the answers thereto, from 1635 to 1749 : and other original, ancient, literary and curious documents
(MICRO LAC 12961)
Letters from the English Kings and Queens Charles II, James II, William and Mary, Anne, George II, &c.
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to the Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, together with the Answers thereto, from 1635 to 1749
2nd copy
The Opinions of Sarah, Duchess-Dowager of Marlborough by Sarah Jennings Churchill
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The Other Side of the Question: or, An Attempt to Rescue the characters of the two Royal Sisters Q. Mary and Q. Anne by James Ralph
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out of the hands of the D- - -s d- - - - of -- - - --.In which all the remarkables in Her Grce's late Account are stated in their full strength, and as fully answer'd; the conduct of several noble persons is justify'd; and all the necessary lights are thrown on our court-history from the revolution, to the change of the mionistry in 1710. In a letter to Her Grace. By a woman of quality ...
Private correspondence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by Sarah Jennings Churchill
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Illustrative of the court and times of Queen Anne; with her sketches and opinions of her contemporaries, and the select correspondence of her husband, John, Duke of Marlborough.
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