2-634-306 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Fitzwilliam copy of the Olive Branch Petition, 1775. The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies (states) in North America and Great Britain. A copy sent to King George III (1738-1820) by the Second Continental Congress. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXIX. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1932]