HOLLIS (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) TOWN MEETING.

At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hollis, in the County of Hillsborough, in the Province of New-Hampshire, held on the 7th day of November, 1774, the following Resolves were unanimously passed, viz:

That we will at all times endeavour to defend our liberties and privileges, both civil and sacred, even at the risk of our lives and fortunes; and will not only disapprove of, but wholly despise all such persons as we have just and solid reason to think, even wish us in any measure deprived of the same.

That we do abhor, detest, and abominate all oppressive acts of persons in power, whether Magistrate or Officer, whereby the poor are distressed and unlawfully robbed of their properties in any manner whatever, and will always deem them not only inimical to individuals, but to the general good of mankind, and will always endeavour to treat them in such a manner as they justly deserve.

That we will at all times endeavour to assist the Civil Magistrate in the due execution of his office, in support of our laws, at the risk of our lives, and will always shew our dislike and disapprobation to all unlawful proceedings of unjust men, congregating together (as they pretend) to maintain their liberties, and very outrageously trample under foot the very law of liberty, and madly destroy that jewel which is so exceeding precious to our American land.

That all persons setting up themselves to adjudge and determine causes between party and party, only by the authority of a mobbish company of disorderly men, unlawfully assembled to commit riots and unlawful actions, are bold contumacious despisers of law, and their proceedings directly tend to the utter subversion of all regularity, good order, peace, and harmony among his Majesty's good subjects in this land.

SAMUEL CUMMINS, Town Clerk.

In Committee, Philadelphia, February, 1775.

Ordered, That the following Letter from Bedford County, in this Province, be published.

Bedford County, February 11, 1775.

SIR: We were yesterday favoured with your letter enclosing the Resolves of the Provincial Convention, and we have the pleasure to inform you that we not only unanimously and heartily accede to them ourselves, but (it being the time of the Appeal) we had the opportunity of communicating them to a large number of our constituents, who to a man signify their warm approbation of them. For our own parts we consider such prudent and patriotick Resolves (whatever may be the issue of our present unhappy dispute with the parent state) to be the most effectual means of promoting industry, economy, wealth, peace, freedom, and happiness amongst a loyal people, who, consistent with true loyalty are determined to hand down that liberty to their posterity which they have enjoyed at the expense of so much of the blood of their British forefathers.

It is with peculiar satisfaction, we assure you, that the people in this County shew the greatest unanimity and even anxiety in complying, as far as in them lies, with the Resolves of the Congress and of the Convention. For that purpose we have subscribed a sum of money, and advertised through the County that certain premiums will be given to the persons who shall excel in such branches of Manufactures as we have recommended them to apply themselves to, being such as we, from our local and other circumstances, could hope to undertake with any prospect of success, and such as will be of most general use, and most conducive to promote the great end we all have in view.

It was impossible for us, by reason of our distance, to attend the Convention on such short notice as we had; but you will be informed by this time that the three first named of us were, amongst others, deputed for that purpose; and they, in the capacity of Deputies for this County as well as all of us in that of the Committee of Correspondence for the same, take this method to testify our thankful acceptance of every one of the Resolves of the Convention, and that we consider ourselves as much bound by them, to every intent and purpose, as if we had been present when they were entered into.

The Committee of Correspondence.

To Joseph Read, Esquire, President of the Provincial Congress of Pennsylvania.

Ulster County, New-York, February 11, 1775.

Since the issuing the Governour's Proclamation for calling the Assembly, the leaders of the Republican faction in this Province have exerted themselves in exciting their despicable tools in this County to a variety of the most flagitious acts of licentiousness and violence—to effect which a thousand falsehoods and misrepresentations have been artfully contrived and industriously circulated among the ignorant, credulous multitude; circular letters have been written to the zealous party men in the different Precincts, animating them to erect Liberty Poles, and choose Committees of Inspection for enforcing obedience to the Resolutions of the Congress; individuals have been threatened with tarring and feathering merely for reading and communicating to their well meaning neighbours such publications as tend to enlighten their uninformed mind on the present subjects of universal animadversion. These measures the lovers of peace, order, and Government beheld with the deepest concern, and for a long time combated with reason and expostulatory arguments, by which many have been convinced of their errours and reclaimed from their wild and frantick pursuits. The abetters of faction, enraged at the increasing defection of their followers, endeavoured to re-animate the declining violence of their party by fresh propagations of falsehoods and misrepresentations; and among many scandalous and seditious insinuations, industriously disseminated the treasonable and malignant doctrine that his Majesty, in passing the Quebec Act, had established the Romish Religion in America, and thereby broken his Coronation oath, whereby the people were discharged from their allegiance, and were justifiable in associating to make proper provision for their common safety. This daring attempt to alienate the affections of the people from their Sovereign, and to excite them to an open subversion of all lawful authority, the friends of Government viewed with indignation, and conceived it high time to bear publick testimony against; accordingly a "very respectable number of his Majesty's loyal subjects met at the house of Mr. John Graham, at Shawangunk, and erected a Royal Standard, on a mast seventy-five feet high, with the following inscription on it:

"In testimony of our unshaken loyalty and incorruptible fidelity to the best of Kings; of our inviolable affection and attachment to our parent state, and the British Constitution; of our abhorrence of, and aversion to a Republican Government; of our detestation of all treasonable associations, unlawful combinations, seditious meetings, tumultuous assemblies, and execrable mobs; and of all measures that have a tendency to alienate the affections of the people from their rightful Sovereign, or lessen their regard for our most excellent Constitution: and to make known to all men that we are ready, when properly called upon, at the hazard of our lives and of every thing dear to us, to defend the King, support the Magistrates in the execution of the laws, and maintain the just rights and constitutional liberties of freeborn Englishmen, this Standard, by the name of the King's Standard, was erected by a number of his Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects, in Ulster County, on the 10th day of February, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our most excellent Sovereign George the Third, whom God long preserve."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM KENT COUNTY ON DELAWARE.

With regard to political matters the people here begin to change their sentiments, concluding, in their more deliberate moments, that such violent measures as have been pursued will not heal, but, on the contrary, widen the breach; many who have kept their sentiments to themselves, begin to whisper their dislike of the proceedings gone into. I believe the Friendly Address, and other performances of the moderate stamp, have done much good