Petition to the King
| 1774 Petition to the King | |
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| Created | October 1774 |
| Ratified | 25 October 1774 |
| Location | Engrossed copy: Library of Congress |
| Author | John Dickinson et al. |
| Signatories | 51 delegates to the Continental Congress |
| Purpose | Avoiding war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies |
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The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts. The King's rejection of the petition was one of the causes of the later United States Declaration of Independence and American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress had hoped to resolve conflict without a war. The Congress did not send a petition to the British Parliament, a deliberate omission since they did not acknowledge Parliament's authority.