1774.
Aug. 25, | Abijah Willard, one of the Mandamus Counsellors for Massachusetts, compelled to resign, 731 |
| | List of the Mandamus Counsellors appointed by the King, (Note,) 731 |
| 24, | Letter from Taunton, in Massachusetts. Daniel Leonard, a Mandamus Counsellor, fled to avoid the friendly cautions of his incensed neighbours, 732 |
| 25, | Letter from Taunton, in Massachusetts. Two or three thousand persons will be assembled tomorrow to request Colonel Gilbert not to accept the office of High Sheriff, under the new Act; and to desire Brigadier Ruggles, a Mandamus Counsellor, to quit the County immediately. It is more dangerous being a Tory here than in Boston, 732 |
| 24, | Proceedings of the first Provincial Convention of North Carolina, held at Newbern, 733 737 |
| | List of the Delegates to the Convention, 733 |
| | Letters from the Committees in the other Colonies, with the Answers, presented by Mr. Hewes, and considered by the Convention, 733 |
| | Three Delegates to General Congress to be appointed, 733 |
| | Allegiance is due to the King of Great Britain, as the rightful Sovereign of this Province, 734 |
| | We claim no more than the rights of English men, and it is our duty to maintain those rights, 734 |
| | To be taxed without our own consent, is a gross violation of the Grand Charter of our Liberties, 734 |
| | As the British Subjects in North America cannot be represented in Parliament, any Act of Parliament to Tax them is illegal, 734 |
| | Duties imposed by Act of Parliament for raising a Revenue, illegal and oppressive, 734 |
| | The cause in which the Inhabitants of Massachusetts now suffer, is the cause of every honest American, 734 |
| | The Boston Port Act is a cruel infringement of the rights and privileges of the People of Boston, 734 |
| | The Act of Parliament for regulating the Police of Massachusetts, is an infringement of the Charter of that Province, 735 |
| | Trial by Juries of the vicinity, is the only lawful Inquest that can pass upon the life of a British Subject, 735 |
| | No British or East India Goods permitted to be imported after the first of January, 1775. No Slaves to be imported after the first of November next; and no East India Tea to be used after the 10th of September next, 735 |
| | No Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, or any other article, to be exported to Great Britain, after the first of October, 1775, unless American Grievances are redressed before that time, 735 |
| | Venders of Merchandise are not to raise the prices of their Goods in consequence of their Resolves for Non-Importation, 735 |
| | The People of North Carolina will break off all Trade with any Colony on the Continent, which shall refuse to adopt and carry into execution such general plan as may be agreed to in the Continental Congress, 735 |
| | Deputies to the Congress appointed, 735 |
| | The attempts made by the Minister upon the Town of Boston, a prelude to a general attack upon the rights of the other Colonies, 736 |
| | Committees to be appointed in the several Counties, to see that the Resolutions of this Convention are properly observed, 736 |
| | Instructions to the Deputies appointed to meet in General Congress on the part of North Carolina, 736 |
| | Proceedings signed by the Members of the Convention, 737 |
| 25, | Express at Williamsburg, from Pittsylvania County. Indian Intelligence. Lord Dunmore, with fifteen hundred Men; and Colonel Lewis and Colonel Preston, with twelve hundred, against the Indians, 737 |
| 26, | Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Governour Penn. Directs him to desist from extending the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania up to the new Maryland line, during the minority of the Heir of Lord Baltimore, 738 |
May 16, | Letter from Governour Penn to Governour Eden. Mr. Harford's Guardians have refused to give any instructions on the subject of the Boundary run and marked by the Commissioners; he will, therefore, issue a Proclamation himself, extending the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, 738 |
| 21, | Letter from Governour Eden to Governour Penn. The Guardians of the Proprietor of Maryland having declined signing the Return of the Commissioners, can do nothing in relation to it, 738 |
Sept. 26, | Letter from Governour Penn to Richard Lee. 26, Has made official notification of the lines run by Mason and Dixon: and the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania will be extended to those lines, 739 |
Aug. 26, | Letter from General Brattle, at Cambridge, to General Gage. Military preparations in the Province. Minute Companies. Medford Powder removed from the Arsenal, 739 |
| 27, | Letter from Colonel Adam Stephen to Richard Henry Lee. Ordered to the Ohio, by Lord Dunmore, which prevents his attending the General Congress. Procuring a supply of Arms and Ammunition of the utmost importance.—This should be privately considered by the Congress, 739 |
| 27, | Resolutions adopted by the Inhabitants of Palatine District, Tryon County, New York, 740 |
| 27, | Letter from Governour Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. The whole Province in commotion ; popular fury never greater than at present. In Worcester they keep no terms, and openly threaten resistance, 741 |
| 29, | An account of the manner in which the Donations for the support of the Poor of Boston has been applied, 743 |
| 29, | Letter from Boston. The new Counsellors driven into Boston. The Judges at Great Barrington turned off the Bench. The Protesters and Addressers to Mr. Hutchinson have fled to Boston for refuge. The Province will soon be declared in open rebellion, and the King's Standard hoisted, 744 |
| 27, | Timothy Paine, a Mandamus Counsellor, compelled to resign, 745 |
| 29, | Letter from Governour Wentworth to the Earl of Dartmouth. Delegates to the Congress, from New-Hampshire, elected. State of affairs in the Province, 745 |
| 30, | Town Meeting at Providence, in Rhode-Island. Arms for the County to be made fit for use. Providence ought not to become an asylum for persons who have made themselves obnoxious to the people in any other part of America.— The Town Council requested to remove and eject all such persons, 746 |
| 31, | Town Meeting at Providence, in Rhode-Island. Magistrates required to preserve the Peace of the Town, 747 |
| 30, | County Court, at Springfield, sign an engagement not to do any thing whatsoever, under any authority, derived or pretended, by the Act of Parliament, for the better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 747 |
| 30, | On the meeting of the Superiour Court at Boston, Chief Justice Peter Oliver on the Bench, the Jurors refuse to be sworn, 747 |
| | Reasons of the Grand Jurors for refusing to be sworn, 748 |
| | Reasons of the Petit Jurors for refusing to be sworn, 749 |
| 30, | Meeting of the Committees From every Town and District, in the County of Middlesex, and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 750 |
| | Committee appointed to consider the Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 750 |
| | Report of the Committee, 750 |
| | Adopted by the Meeting, 752 |
| | Towns in the County recommended to elect Delegates to a Provincial Congress, to meet at Concord, on the second Tuesday in October, 752 |
| 30, | Address to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania.—Petitions and Remonstrances to the King and Parliament will have no effect. We should not implore, but demand our liberty, 754 |
| 31, | Address to the Delegates appointed to meet in the General Congress, 754 |
| | Queries proposed to the People of America, 755 |