1774, |
CONSTITUTIONAL POST OFFICE. |
July 2, | Mr. Goddard's Proposal for establishing an American Post Office has been warmly patronized in the Eastern Colonies, and preparations have been made for the conveyance of the Mail, 500 |
| | Plan for the establishing a new American Post Office, 500 |
Feb'ry 5, | Letter to Lord North. Dismissing Dr. Franklin from the Post Office one of the most fortunate events for America. The Americans will set up a Post Office of their own, and put an end to the precedent, so often referred to, for Taxing them, (Note,) 500 |
| 28, | Letter from New-York to a Gentleman in Boston. Our tame submission to the Post Office Establishment has been constantly urged as a precedent for all other unconstitutional Acts. If we oppose it now, with manly firmness, we cannot fail of success. Mr. Goddard's Plan is well calculated to save the cause of Liberty, (Note,) 500 |
March 17, | Mr. Goddard at Boston. He has received the greatest encouragement from all the Colonies through which he has passed. At a Meeting in Boston, it was determined to unite with the Southern Colonies in support of this measure for the recovery of American Liberty, (Note.) 500 Heads of a Subscription Paper, for the establishment of an American Post Office, laid before the Committee of Correspondence at Boston, (Note,) 501 |
| 29, | Mr. Goddard at Salem, on the subject of establishing a Post Office independent of the unconstitutional Laws of a British Parliament, (Note,) 501 |
April 15, | Mr. Goddard at Portsmouth: At a Meeting of 15, the Committee of Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants, a Subscription to support the American Post Office, unanimously agreed upon, (Note,) 502 |
| 21, | Letter from Philadelphia to a Gentleman at Williamsburg. The Post Office as established is an infringement of American Liberties; but the new one proposed can scarcely succeed under Mr. Goddard. The Merchants of Philadelphia have preferred Mr. Bradford for the private Post set up between that place and Philadelphia, (Note,) 502 |
| 21, | Mr. Goddard at Boston, with Letters from Towns to the Eastward, expressing their concurrence in the establishment of a Post Office, on constitutional principles, throughout the Continent. The removal of Dr. Franklin from the Post Office has added fresh spirit to the promoters of this salutary plan, (Note) 503 |
May 5, | The Subscription for establishing an American Post Office has been liberally patronized.—Mr. Goddard will return homeward, rejoicing in the great success which has attended his endeavours to rescue the channel of publick and private intelligence from the horrid fangs of Ministerial despotism, (Note,) 503 |
| 19, | The report that the Constitutional Post Rider between Philadelphia and Baltimore, with a large sum of money entrusted to his care, had absconded, is untrue, (Note,) 503 |
June 2, | Mr. Goddard at New-York, with important despatches for all the Southern Colonies, the plan for establishing a Constitutional American Post Office having met with the greatest success in all the great Commercial Towns in the Northern Colonies, (Note,) 503 |
| 16, | Information of the proceedings in the Colonies for the establishment of an American Post Office received in London. When General Gage arrives in America, he will stop the career of the new Post Riders and their employers, {Note,) 503 |
July 6, | Letter from Philadelphia to a Gentleman m Williamsburg. Objections to Mr. Goddard. At a Meeting of the Mechanicks, they refused to hear read Letters relating to the establishment of the Post Office, as the Americans had enough to do already, (Note,) 503 |
| 16, | The Deputy Postmasters General of North America alarmed at the progress making to establish a new Post Office, (Note,) 504 |
| 25, | Letter from Baltimore to a Gentleman in Williamsburg. A complete plan of establishing a new American Post Office has been executed throughout the New England Governments. Mr. Goddard will leave here for Williamsburg, to lay his plan before the Convention, (Note,) 504 |
Aug. 11, | Mr. Goddard's Plan for establishing an American Post Office was agitated at the Convention in Virginia, who considered it worthy the attention of the General Congress, and, as such, particularly recommended it to the Delegates from Virginia, (Note,) 504 |
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CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC. |
July 3, | Letter from Boston, received in New-York. Distresses of the People there; their patience, resolution, and firmness. The League and Covenant very generally signed, notwithstanding the Governours Proclamation, 505 |
| 4, | Letter from Carlisle, received in Philadelphia. Connolly's attack on the Shawanese, who protected the Traders. Letter of thanks from Lord Dunmore to Cresap, who first began the quarrel with the Indians, 505 |
| 4, | Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Orange Town, in the Province of New-York, 506 |
| 4, | Opinions in London of the state of affairs in the Colonies. The faction in Boston composed of Smuggling Companies, Mechanicks, Merchants indebted in England, and those who are fascinated with the extravagant notion Of Independency. Seditious Committees appoint-ed to influence the other Colonies. From Letters and other intelligence, it is evident that no permanent or vigorous measures of resistance can be adopted to support the Boston Rebels, 507 |
| 4, | Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina, about to assemble on the 6th of July, 508 |
| 4, | Letter from Governour Wentworth, in New-Hampshire, to the Earl of Dartmouth. Twenty-seven chests of Tea landed and stored at the Custom-House. The Consignee agreed with the Committee of Portsmouth to re-ship it. Mob prevented from destroying the Tea. Vessel with the twenty-seven chests sailed for Halifax, June 30, 512 |
| 5, | Letter from a Gentleman in London, to his Correspondent in Philadelphia, 513 |
| 5, | Letter from Governour Perm, Philadelphia, to the Earl of Dartmouth. Temper of the People very warm. They consider Boston as suffering in the common cause, 514 |
| 5, | Address to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies in America, (Note,) 300 |
| | Reply to the preceding Address, (Note,) 399 |
| 5, | Letter from Governour Gage, at Salem, to the Earl of Dartmouth. A number attended the fate Town Meeting, to make a push to pay for the Tea, and annihilate the Committee of Correspondence, but were out-voted by a great majority of the lower class. Has done all in his power to spirit up every friend to Government; and there is now an open opposition to the faction. The terrour of Mobs is over, and the Press is becoming free, 514 |
| 6, | Address of the Justices of the County of Plymouth, to Governour Gage, 515 |
| | The Governour's Answer, 516 |
| 6, | Letter from Governour Wentworth to die Earl of Dartmouth, Went with the Council and the Sheriff and dispersed an illegal Meeting, held for the purpose of appointing Delegates to a General American Congress, 516 |
| 6, | Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth: After a continual struggle of many weeks in the New-York Commit-tee, they have carried the nomination of Deputies to die Congress. These transactions are dangerous and illegal, but cannot be prevented. The Province every where, except in the City of New-York, perfectly quiet, 517 |
| 6, | Meeting of the Inhabitants of the City of New-York, convened in the Fields, 312 |
| 6, | Letter from Alexandria, in Virginia, to a Gentleman in Bosten. Subscriptions for the relief of the Poor in Boston. 517 |
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