1774.
May 31, | Letter from Governour Franklin, Burlington, to the Earl of Dartmouth. Difficult to foresee what will be the consequences of the Boston Port Act. The Merchants of New-York and Philadelphia, though inclined to co-operate with Boston, unwilling to enter into a General Non-Importation and Non-Exportation Agreement. A Congress has been proposed, but whether it will take place is uncertain, 368 |
| 31, | Letter from New-York to a Gentleman in London, (Note,) 299 |
| 31, | Letter from Govemour Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. Doubtful whether the other Colonies will give Boston any thing but good words. The violent seem to break, and the People to fall off from them, The Assembly hurrying through their business, to avoid meeting at Salem, were suddenly adjourned by him to meet there on the 7th of June. The Officers of the Customs leave Boston to-morrow, and the Admiral has stationed his Ships. No design has yet appeared of opposing the Act. Many wish for the arrival of the Troops; People will speak openly then, which they now dare not do, 368 |
| 31, | Letter from John Scollay, Boston, to Arthur Lee. Injurious effects that will be felt by the whole Province from the Boston Port Bill. Although it was intended to ruin the Town, yet out of this management of Lord North's, instead of despotism and tyranny over the Colonies, a foundation for peace and harmony with Great Britain will be laid. The Colonies do not wish for Independence, and they are too valuable for the Crown to part with, 369 |
| 31, | Information of the Boston Port Bill received with indignation at Charlestown, S. Carolina 370 |
| 31, | Letter from the Norfolk, Virginia, Committee, to the Committee at Charlestown, South Carolina, The time has come when the closest union is necessary. The Boston Port Bill is an attack upon the liberties of us all. We look to Charles-town as among those to take the lead in the general establishment of the rights of the Colonies. Fear Boston will sink under the weight of their misfortunes. Approve of the expediency of a Congress. If, after all, the India Company must be reimbursed, every freeman will cheerfully join in the general expense, 370 |
June 1, | Letter from Lieutenant Governour Golden, New-York, to the Earl of Dartmouth. At the time the Boston Port Bill was received in New-York, the men who called themselves the Committee, were, many of them, of the lower rank, and all the warmest zealots of those called the Sons of Liberty, The principal Inhabitants, at a meeting held after the Port Act was published, dissolved this Committee and appointed a new one, of the prudent people of the city. No Resolutions have yet been adopted by this Colony, 372 |
| 1, | Letter from Major General Haldimand, New-York, to the Earl of Dartmouth, Since the late vigorous measures of Parliament, the loyal Inhabitants fear not to disapprove the rash proceedings of their Countrymen. This has prevented the passage of Resolutions to stop Trade with Great Britain and the West Indies, 373 |
| 1, | Letter from New-York to a Gentleman in Scotland, (Note,) 302 |
| 1, | Fredericksburg, Virginia, Resolutions, Will concur in every proper measure adopted by the Colonies respecting Boston. Committee of Correspondence appointed, 373 |
| 1, | Letter II, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies in America. An examination of the Acts relating to America, 374 |
| 1, | An Address to all the English Colonies of North America Effects and consequences of the Boston Port Bill, 377 |
| 2, | Meeting of the Inhabitants of Kent County, Maryland, Committee of Correspondence appointed. Delegates to the Provincial Congress at Annapolis, chosen. Collections made for the suffering Poor of Boston, 379 |
| 2, | Letter from a Member of the Assembly of New-Jersey. Meeting of a Committee at New-Brunswick. Will do whatever may be generally agreed on. Have requested the Goyernour to convene the Assembly before the first of August, 380 |
June 2 | etter received in Philadelphia from a Gentleman in Boston. Closing the Port Proposition to pay for the Tea. General Gage ordered the removal of the Province Money from Boston to Salem. Treasurer refused to comply, 380 |
| 2, | Letter from New-York to a Gentleman in England, 302 |
| 2, | Letter from the Committee of Norfolk, Virginia, to the Baltimore Committee. The Late Acts of Parliament viewed as fetal to the liberties of the Colonies, and as a publick robbery of our rights. The policy of attacking a Town or Province singly, will never so delude, as to disunite us from a joint and universal opposition of all British America, 371 |
| 3, | Letter from the Committee of Norfolk, Virginia, to the Boston Committee. Are not indifferent spectators of the distresses of Boston, under the cruel exertion of British power. Observed the first of June as a day of fasting and prayer. Consider Boston as suffering in the common cause, and bound by the most solemn and sacred ties to support them in every measure to regain their rights and privileges, 371 |
| 3, | Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to General Gage. Encloses Acts for the better government of, and the administration of Justice in, Massachusetts Bay. The King has nominated thirty-six persons for the Council of Massachusetts. Mr. Oliver, of Cambridge, appointed Lieutenant Governour. Instructions. Violences must be resisted with firmness. The Acts of Parliament must be obeyed throughout the whole Empire, 380 |
| 3, | Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut to the Committee of Correspondence for Boston. The Assembly at their session, which closed this day, came to Resolutions relative to their rights and privileges. Resolves of Colonies will have more weight than those of the Merchants of separate Towns; and measures recommended by the whole united Colonies will have still greater weight and influence, 304 |
| 4, | Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut to the New-York Committee, enclosing a copy of the preceding Letter, which they have also sent to Rhode-Island and New-Hampshire, 304 |
| 4, | The King's birthday. Not a house illuminated at Charlestown; no demonstrations of joy, (Note,) 382 |
| 4, | Address to the People of Charlestown, South Carolina, 382 |
| 4, | Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Resolutions Duty of all the Colonies to unite for obtaining a repeal of the Boston Port Bill, A; stoppage of Trade with Great Britain and the West Indies the most effectual means to obtain a repeal. Provincial Congress recommended: Members for Anne Arundel County appointed 384 Questions submitted to the consideration, of the Committee for Anne Arundel County, (Note,) 385 |
| 4, | Letter received at New-York from a Gentleman of Philadelphia. Some of the friends of Bogton here are too warm, and wish to push all things into confusion. Our Letter, (of May 21,) moderate, yet warm and firm enough 386 |
| 4, | Letter from Joseph Johnson, an Indian of the Mohegan Tribe, to Jonathan Trumbull, Governour of Connecticut, 386 |
| 6, | Letter from the Earl of Dunmore, Williamsburg, to the Earl of Dartmouth, Cannot tell to what lengths the People of Virginia will be induced to proceed. Members of the late House of Burgesses, after the arrival of the Boston messenger, called a meeting of the People, and proposed to them to agree to the violent measures adopted at Annapolis, which, that they maybe more solemnly entered into, have deferred the execution of it to the first day of August, when all the Members of the late House of Burgesses are required to attend, 387 |
| 6, | Meeting of the Freeholders, Merchants and other Inhabitants of the County of Prince |
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