Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, if American grievances be not redressed before the first day of November, 1775, that all exports of produce from the several Colonies to Great Britain, should cease; and to carry the said resolution more effectually into execution, that we will not plant or cultivate any tobacco after the crop now growing, provided the same measure shall be adopted by the other Colonies on this Continent, as well as those who have heretofore made tobacco, as those who have not. And it is our opinion, also, if the Congress of Deputies from the several Colonies shall adopt the measure of non-exportation to Great Britain, as the people will be thereby disabled from paying their debts, that no judgments should be rendered by the Courts in the said Colonies, for any debt, after information of the said measures being determined upon.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that a Solemn Covenant and Association should be entered into by the inhabitants of all the Colonies, upon oath, that they will not, after the time which shall be respectively agreed on at the general Congress, export any manner of lumber to the West Indies; nor any of their produce to Great Britain; or sell or dispose of the same to any person who shall not have entered into the said Covenant and Association; and also, that they will not import or receive any goods or merchandise which shall be shipped from Great Britain, after the first day of September next, other than the before enumerated articles; nor buy or purchase any goods, except as before excepted, of any person whatsoever, who shall not have taken the oath herein before recommended to be taken by the merchants and venders of goods; nor buy or purchase any slaves hereafter imported into any part of this Continent, until a free exportation and importation be again resolved on by a majority of the Representatives or Deputies of the Colonies; and that the respective Committees of the counties in each Colony, so soon as the Covenant and Association becomes general, publish by advertisements in their several counties, a list of the names of those, (if any such there be) who will not accede thereto, that such, traitors to their country may be publickly known and detested.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that this and the other associating Colonies should break off all trade, intercourse, and dealings, with that Colony, Province, or town, which shall decline or refuse to agree to the plan which shall be adopted by the general Congress.

Resolved, That should the town of Boston be forced to submit to the late cruel and oppressive measures of Government, that we shall not hold the same to be binding upon us, but will, notwithstanding, religiously maintain, and inviolably adhere to, such measures as shall be concerted by the general Congress, for the preservation of our lives, liberties, and fortunes.

Resolved, That it be recommended to the Deputies of the general Congress, to draw up and transmit an humble and dutiful Petition and Remonstrance to his Majesty, asserting in decent firmness our just and constitutional rights and privileges, lamenting the fatal necessity of being compelled to enter into measures disgusting to his Majesty and his Parliament, or injurious to our fellow-subjects in Great Britain; declaring, in the strongest terms, our duty and affection to his Majesty's person, family, and Government, and our desire forever to continue our dependence upon Great Britain; and most humbly conjuring and beseeching his Majesty not to reduce his faithful subjects of America to a state of desperation, and to reflect, that from our Sovereign there can be but one appeal. And it is the opinion of this meeting, that after such Petition and Remonstrance shall have been presented to his Majesty, the same shall be printed in the public papers in all the principal towns in Great Britain.

Resolved, That George Washington, Esquire, and Charles Broadwater, Gentleman, lately elected our Representatives to serve in the General Assembly, attend the Convention at Williamsburg, on the first day of August next, and present these Resolves as the sense of the people of this county upon the measures proper to be taken in the present alarming and dangerous situation of America.

Resolved, That George Washington, Esquire, John West, George Mason, William Rumney, William Ramsay, George Gilpton, Robert Hanson Harrison, John Carlyle, Robert Adam, John Dalton, Philip Alexander, James Kirk, William Brown, Charles Broadwater, William Payne, Martin Cockburne, Lee Massey, William Hartshorne, Thomas Triplett, Charles Alexander, Thomas Pollard, Townsend Dade, Junior, Edward Payne, Henry Gunnell, and Thomas Lewis, be a Committee for this county; that they, or a majority of them, on any emergency, have power to call a general meeting, and to concert and adopt such measures as may be thought most expedient and necessary.

Resolved, That a copy of these Proceedings be transmitted to the Printer at Williamsburg, to be published.

ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

July 18, 1774, P. M.—The Representatives of the Province having been, by virtue of the Governour's writs to the Sheriffs of the several counties for that purpose, directed, summoned to meet this day in Assembly; a quorum met accordingly.

Ordered, That Mr. Pawling and Mr. Hillegas wait on the Governour, and acquaint him that the House being met, pursuant to his summons, they are ready to receive any business he may be pleased to lay before them, and request a copy of the Writ by which they have been convened.

The Members return and Report, they had waited on the Governour, and delivered their Message according to order, and that his Honour was pleased to say, he would immediately furnish the House with a copy of the Writ requested.

The Governour, by Mr. Secretary, sent down the said Writ accordingly, also a written Message to the House, with sundry Letters and Petitions from different parts of the frontiers, concerning the present Indian disturbances, which were in part read by order, and the said Message follows in these words, viz:

"GENTLEMEN: The importance of the matter I have to lay before you, will, I am persuaded, make it unnecessary to apologize to you for calling you together at a season of the year of all others the most inconvenient for you to attend to publick business.

"I am to inform you, that in the latter end of April last, about eleven Delaware and Shawanese Indians were barbarously murdered on the river Ohio, about ninety miles below Pittsburgh, by two parties of white men, said to be Virginians. As we were at that time in a state of perfect amity with the Western Indians, and it does not appear that those who were killed by the above parties had given them the least provocation, I am at a loss to conjecture what could be the inducement to act so cruel and inhuman.

"As soon as the unfortunate affair was known on the frontiers of this Province, messengers were despatched to assure the Indians that these outrages had been committed by wicked people, without the knowledge or countenance of any of the English Governments, and requesting they might not be the means of disturbing the friendship which subsisted between us. This step had so far a good effect as to quiet them for the present, and prevent them coming to a resolution to enter into a general war with us. It did not, however, restrain the particular friends and relations of the deceased, who, it seems, contrary to the advice of their Chiefs, in a short time afterwards took their revenge, by murdering a number of Virginians settled to the Westward of the river Monongahela. Alarmed at this proceeding, the out-settlers left their habitations and fled with their families into the interior parts; and the panick soon became so universal that a great part of the Western, frontier of this Province was totally deserted; and it is impossible to say when the mischief would have stopped had not a number of rangers been raised by the Magistrates and others, in the County of Westmoreland, who were stationed in proper places to protect the inhabitants, and act defensively in case of an attack. This measure I esteemed a very salutary one, supplied the men with arms and ammunition, and ordered them to be kept up till the meeting of the Assembly, under a full persuasion that you would cheerfully defray the necessary expenses attending it.

"It would be too tedious to relate he several occur-