Essex County, N. J., 7th June, 1774.

All the Inhabitants of the County of Essex, in New-Jersey, friends to the Constitution, the liberties and properties of America, are hereby notified and desired to meet at the Court House, in Newark, on Saturday, the 11th of June, instant, at two of the clock in the afternoon, to consult and deliberate, and firmly resolve upon the most prudent and salutary measures to secure and maintain the constitutional rights of his Majesty's subjects in America. It is, therefore, hoped, that from the importance of the subject, the meeting will be general.

Signed by order, at a meeting of a number of the Free-holders of the County of Essex, the 7th day of June, 1774.

JOHN DE HART,
ISAAC OGDEN.

Marblehead, June7, 1774.

We, the subscribers, Merchants and Traders of Marblehead, do hereby offer to our oppressed, but much respected brethren of Boston, and other neighbouring towns thereof, during the operation of the Act of Parliament, called the Port Bill, the free use of our stores in this town, reserving only sufficient room for our own goods and merchandise. We likewise assure them of our readiness in seeing to the lading and unlading of their goods in this town, and shall consider ourselves obliged to them for every opportunity of thus saving them expense, and showing how much we sympathize with and respect them. We confidently depend on their patience and resolution, the known characteristics of Bostonians and their neighbours; and hope soon to see them relieved from their distress, and the liberties of America founded on a permanent basis by an indissoluble Union.

Signed by twenty-eight of the principal Merchants and Traders.

N. B. Such of us as have wharfs do likewise heartily and freely give the use of them to our brethren aforesaid, for landing their goods and merchandise in this place.

PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL.

At a Council held at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, 7th, of June, 1774.

Present, the Honourable John Penn, Esq., Governour, James Hamilton, James Tilghman, Andrew Allen, Esqrs.

The Governour laid before the Board the copy of a Petition from sundry Inhabitants of the Province, to call the Assembly, on occasion of the late Act of Parliament, respecting the port of Boston, which is to be presented tomorrow; and requested their advice as to a proper answer to be given to the same:

Upon which the following Answer was drawn up and approved:

GENTLEMEN; Upon all occasions when the peace, order and tranquillity of the Province require it, I shall be ready to convene the Assembly; but as that does not appear to me to be the case at present, I cannot think such a step would be expedient, or consistent with my duty.

Wednesday, June 8. The Petition was presented, and is in the following words:

To the Honourable JOHN PENN, Esquire, Governour and Commander-in-chief in and over the Province of PENNSYLVANIA, &c., &c.

The Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the Province of Pennsylvania, humbly showeth:

That since the recess of the Assembly of this Province, the proceedings of the British Parliament towards America, and particularly an Act lately passed against the town of Boston, have filled the minds of your petitioners, and others, their fellow-subjects, with deep anxiety and concern; that your petitioners apprehend the design of this Act is to compel the Americans to acknowledge the right of Parliament to impose taxes upon them at pleasure; that the precedent of condemning a whole town or city unheard, and involving all its Inhabitants, of every age and sex, and however different in political sentiment or action, in one common ruin, gives universal alarm. Deeply impressed with these sentiments, and at the same time solicitous to preserve peace, order, and tranquillity, we do earnestly entreat the Governour to call the Assembly of the Province, as soon as it can conveniently be done, that they may have an opportunity, riot only to devise measures to compose and relieve the anxieties of the people, but to restore that harmony and peace between the mother country and the Colonies, which has been of late so much and so unhappily interrupted. And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.

Signed by near nine hundred respectable Freeholders, in and near the City of Philadelphia.

To which his Excellency was pleased to return the Answer approved by the Council on yesterday.

FREDERICK COUNTY (VIRGINIA) RESOLUTIONS.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the County of Frederick, in Virginia, and gentlemen practising at the bar, held at the town of Winchester, the 8th day of June, 1774, to consider of the best mode to be fallen upon to secure their liberties and properties, and also to prevent the dangerous tendency of an Act of Parliament, passed in the fourteenth year of his present Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act to discontinue in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading and shipping of goods, wares, and merchandise at the town and within the harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America, evidently has to invade and deprive us of the same."

The Reverend CHARLES M. THURSTON Moderator.

A Committee of the following gentlemen, viz: the Reverend Charles M Thurston, Isaac Zane, George Rootes, Angus McDonald, Alexander White, George Johnson, and Samuel Beall, 3d, were appointed to draw up Resolves suitable to the same occasion, who, withdrawing for a short time, returned with the following votes, viz:

Voted, 1st. That we will always cheerfully pay due submission to such Acts of Government as his Majesty has a right by law to exercise over his subjects, as Sovereign of the British Dominions, and to such only.

2d. That it is the inherent right of British subjects to be governed and taxed by Representatives chosen by them-selves only; and that every Act of the British Parliament respecting the internal policy of North America, is a daring and unconstitutional invasion of our said rights and privileges.

3d. That the Act of Parliament above mentioned is not only in itself repugnant to the fundamental law of natural justice, in condemning persons for a supposed crime un-heard, but also a despotic exertion of unconstitutional power, calculated to enslave a free and loyal people.

4th. That the enforcing the execution of the said Act of Parliament by a military power, will have a necessary tendency to raise a civil war, thereby dissolving that union which has so long happily subsisted between the mother country and her Colonies: and that we will most heartily and unanimously concur with our suffering brethren of Boston, and every other part of North America, that may be the immediate victims of tyranny, in promoting all proper measures to avert such dreadful calamities, to procure a redress of our grievances, and to secure our common liberties.

5th. It is the unanimous opinion of this meeting, that a joint resolution of all the Colonies to stop all importations from Great Britain, and exportations to it, till the said Act shall be repealed, will prove the salvation of North America and her liberties. On the other hand, if they continue their imports and exports, there is the greatest reason to fear that fraud, power, and the most odious oppression, will rise triumphant over right, justice, social happiness, and freedom.

6th. That the East India Company, those servile tools of arbitrary power, have justly forfeited the esteem and regard of all honest men; and that the better lo manifest our abhorrence of such abject compliance with the will of a venal Ministry, in ministering all in their power in increase