every inferiour consideration of private interest or convenience. The recommendation of the Committee appearing to us the best method of carrying into execution the Resolves of the Congress for improving the breed of Sheep, and increasing their number, we do solemnly agree and pledge ourselves to the publick, that we will not hereafter purchase any Ewe Mutton or Lamb, until the first day of May next; nor any Ewe Lamb from the said first day of May until the first day of October following; nor will we after the first day of January, kill any Ewe Mutton or Lamb, on any account or pretence whatever, until the first day of May following; nor any Ewe Lamb whatever, from the said first day of May until the first of October following; and will at any time in future, during our struggle for our rights and liberties, be ready to comply with such further regulations as the Committee may think necessary for the preservation of the stock of Sheep, as witness our hands.

Signed by Sixty-six.

Extract from the Minutes of the Committee for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia.

FAIRFAX COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Committee for Fairfax County, Va., in the Town of Alexandria, on Monday, the 19th day of December, 1774, Messrs. Fitzgerald and Peers informed the Committee that the Ship Hope, Thomas Ash, master, had arrived in this Colony since the first instant, from Belfast, with sundry packages of Irish Linen, amounting as per invoice and bills of parcels produced, with freight, commission, and insurance, to eleven hundred and one Pounds, four Shillings and eight Pence, sterling, their property, and requesting that the same should be sold, agreeable to the tenth Article in the Continental Association.

Ordered, That the said Goods be sold by the package to the highest bidder, for ready sterling money, on Saturday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, under the direction of John Carlyle, William Ramsay, George Gilpin, John Dalton, and William Hartshorne, or any three of them; that they, or any three of them, reimburse and pay to the said Messrs. Fitzgerald and Peers, out of the sale thereof, the first cost and charges as aforesaid; and if any profit shall arise from such sale, that they retain the same in their hands, for relieving and employing such of the poor inhabitants of the Town of Boston, as are sufferers by the Boston Port Bill, subject to the direction of the Committee for the said County of Fairfax.

ROBERT H. HARRISON, Clerk.

GLOUCESTER COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Committee of Observation for the County of Gloucester, Virginia, on the 19th day of December, 1774, Samuel Harrison, Robert Friend Price, John Hinchman, John Cooper, Joseph Ellis, Isaac Mickle, John Sparks, Joseph Cooper, Joseph Low, Peter Cheeseman, Doctor Benjamin Vanlier, Joseph Hugg, and Marmaduke Cooper, were unanimously chosen as a Committee of Correspondence for said County, who have appointed Robert Friend Price, John Hinchman, John Cooper, John Sparks, Joseph Ellis, and Joseph Hugg, as a Committee to meet the Committees of the other Counties, at such time and place as shall be hereafter agreed on; and that three or more of said Committee shall attend for choosing Delegates to serve in the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, on the 10th day of May next. By order of the Committee,

JOSEPH HUGG, Clerk.

Elizabethtown, New-Jersey, December 19, 1774.

The Committee of Observation for the free Borough and Town of Elizabeth, taking into consideration that James Rivington, Printer of one of the New-York Gazettes, having published many pieces in his paper, and divers pamphlets, inimical to the liberties of America; by which We have reason to suspect that he is a vile Ministerial hireling, employed to disunite the Colonies, and calumniate ell their measures entered into for the publick good; in order therefore, to discountenance the attempts of every person unfriendly to American liberty,

Resolved unanimously, By this Committee, that they will take no more of said Rivington's Gazettes, nor send any advertisements to be inserted therein, or have any further dealings or commerce with him: And that we will recommend it to our constituents to observe the same conduct towards said Rivington, or any other Printer who shall publish or print any pieces or pamphlets tending to break the happy union now subsisting throughout the American Colonies. By order of the Committee,

JONATHAN HAMPTON, Chairman.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LONDON, TO A GENTLEMAN OF NEW-YORK, DATED DECEMBER 20, 1774.

The persons whose names I sent you, were certainly on the list of those who were supposed to be men of influence among you, and that have been, or were intended to be tempted by bribes, places, and pensions, or emoluments of some kind or other, either at present or in expectancy, to betray your interests and side with the Ministry in establishing an arbitrary Government in America. I have good reason to believe, that all those men I mentioned to you, and more whom I intend to mention in my next, have been or will be applied to, either immediately, or by the agency of others. It will give me great pleasure to hear that the virtue of your countrymen is proof against the temptations contrived to destroy it. If the Ministry succeed in establishing the right of taxation, they will at their pleasure multiply places, of profit, to be raised out of your properties, to support their dependents, in being your task-masters, and riveting upon you the chains of slavery. I earnestly warn you to be extremely watchful of the men among yourselves, who may have power to do you mischief. These are the men that will be tempted to betray you. Contractors and Agents for military stores, provisions, and several other articles which the Ministry have in contemplation, will be powerfully tempted, by very lucrative employments, to promote their designs; but hold fast you integrity, and all will be well.

Your conduct has gained your immortal honour. The wisdom, moderation, and firmness of your Continental Congress, are the admiration of the greatest and best men in England, and in all the world; and the terrour of the Ministry and all their emissaries and adherents: the earthquake at Lisbon did not occasion more confusion than this has among them. You have only to persevere, and yon will preserve your own liberties and England's too.

CHESTER COUNTY (PENNSYLVANIA) COMMITTEE.

In pursuance of publick notice given, a very respectable number of Inhabitants of the County of Chester, met at the Court House, in the Borough of Chester, on the 20th of December 1774, and chose the following Committee to carry into execution the Association of the late Continental Congress, viz: Anthony Wayne, Francis Johnston, Richard Riley, Evan Evans, and James Moore, Esquires, Hugh Lloyd, Thomas Hockley, David Coupland, John Hart, Sketchley Morton, Samuel Fairlamb, Isaac Eyre, John Crosby, Nicholas Deal, Jesse Bonsall, Aaron Oak-ford, Benjamin Brannon, John Talbot, Joseph Brown, Samuel Prince, John Crawford, John Taylor, Lewis Gronow, Edward Humphreys, Henry Lawrance, Richard, Thomas, William Montgomery, Persefor Frazer, Thomas Taylor, John Foulke, Robert Mendenhall, Joseph Penuel, George Pierce, Nicholas Fairlamb, Samuel Tunbell, Charles Dilworth, John Hannum, George Hoops, Joel Bealy, John Gilleland, Joseph Bishop, Junior, Jahn Keilin, Edward Jones, William Lewis, Patrick Anderson, Joshua Evans, Thomas Evans, John Hartman, Doctor Bramon Van Leer, William Evans, Joseph Cowan, Thomas Haslep, Paterson Bell, Doctor Jonathan Morris, Andrew Mitchell, Thomas Buffington, James Bennett, Joseph Musgrave, William Miller, Richard Floer, Walter Finney, James Simpson, David Whaney, James Evans, Thomas Bishop, William Edwards, Jonathan Vernon, Junior, Lewis Davis, Senior, Joseph Gibbons, Junior, and Thomas Evans.

Which Committee are to be and continue from this time until one month after the rising of the next Continental Congress, with full power to transact such business, and enter into such associations, as to them shall appear expedient.