1774.
Sept. 1 | Address to the People of America. Considerations on—1st, A Petition to Parliament, with a firm declaration of the rights of. Americans. 2d, A suspension of Trade with Great Britain, till the Acts be repealed. 3d, A suspension of, all our Trade with Great Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies, till the Acts be repealed, 756 |
| 1, | Letter from a Virginian to the Members of Congress at Philadelphia. The Colonies have advanced from one extravagant claim to another. Their most zealous advocates are ashamed to plead a cause which all others condemn. Parliament has a right to Tax the Colonies, and cannot depend upon the uncertain mode of Requisition, 759 |
| 1, | Letter from Governour Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth. The People of North Carolina have followed the rest of the Continent in caballing and forming Resolutions upon the late measures of Government. Does not know what the Committees have done, but whatever measures may have been taken, the combination is assuredly, at least, indecent and inglorious, 761 |
| 1, | Powder taken from the Charlestown Magazine, by order of General Gage, 762 |
| 2, | Judge Danforth and Judge Lee, Mandamus Counsellors, compelled to resign, 768 |
| 2, | Colonel Phips, the High Sheriff of the County, gives a pledge not to execute any precept under the new Acts of Parliament for altering the Constitution of Massachusetts Bay, 763 |
| 2, | Lieutenant Governour, Thomas Oliver, compelled to resign his seat as a Mandamus Counsellor, 764 |
| 7, | Mr. Oliver's statement of the circumstances under which he resigned, 764 |
| 2, | Letter from St. John's Parish, in Georgia. Account of the Meeting at Savannah, on the 10th of August. Contributions from St. John's Parish for the Sufferers at Boston, 766 |
| 2, | Letter from Governour Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. State of the Colonies much changed since Mr. Hutchinson left America. Several of the Counsellors have been obliged to seek protection under the Troops in Boston. Some have been maltreated; many have resigned. He intended to send Troops to Worcester, to protect the Superiour Court and the Counsellors, but ascertained that no Court could proceed, on business there. In Boston the Judges met, but could get no Juries. The Counsellors were afraid to proceed to Salem; he was, therefore, compelled to assemble them in Boston. Proposes to send to New-York, Philadelphia, and Quebeck, for the Troops there. Civil Government is near its end.—He will avoid any bloody crisis as long as possible, 767 |
| 3, | Letter from Governour Gage to the Earl of Dart mouth, 769 |
| 3, | Letter from a Member of Parliament to Colonel Charles Lee, 769 |
| 3, | Letter from a Gentleman, in London, to his Correspondent in New-York. Disputes of the New-York Committee published in all the London papers, and have been disadvantageous to the cause of the Colonies. The Ministry are waiting anxiously to hear the result of the Congress; they still expect the Colonies will beg for mercy, 771 |
| 4, | Letter from London to a Correspondent in Boston. The measures of the Colonies should be calm and temperate. None of their Resolves should contain reflections on Great Britain,—The East India Company should be indemnified by the Bostonians, and submission made for the insult offered to Government, 772 |
| 5, | Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. The Congress met this morning. The determination to oppose the Boston Acts, and. the power of Parliament to Tax America, universal throughout the Colonies; there is, however, great diversity of opinions as to the proper modes of opposition, 773 |
| 5, | Report of an attack on Boston, by the Men-of-War and Troops, on the 2d, received in New-York by express, 325 |
Sept. 7, | Letter from Georgia to a Gentleman in New York. Those in favour of an immediate Non-Importation Agreement there, are far in the minority. As the Colony is situated, it would be highly ungenerous for Georgia to meddle with the disputes in which the rest of the Colonies are engaged, 773 |
| 7, | Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. The populace are now directed by men of property, and the former demagogues have lost their influence. Men now speak in favour of Government with greater freedom than for years past, 773 |
| 7, | Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Governour Penn. The appointment of Deputies, by the different Colonies, to meet in General Congress, has given the King great concern. An humble representation to the King from each Colony would have greater weight than one from the Congress, 774 |
| 8, | Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to the Earl of Dunmore. Expresses the King's dissatisfaction at the ill treatment of the Indians on the Ohio by the People of Virginia, and of the proceedings of Connolly, under a commission from the Government of Virginia, 774 |
| 8, | The County Courts, in Virginia, will do no business previous to a Session of the General Assembly. At the next General Court there will be no Trials, except in Criminal Cases, 775 |
| 5, | The Selectmen of Boston inform General Gage of the alarm of the People at his preparing to erect a Fortification on the Neck, 775 |
| 9, | Address of the Selectmen of Boston to General Gage, on his fortifying the entrance to the Town, and the abuse and assaulting of the People passing in and out of the Town, by the Guards, 775 |
| | Answer of the Governour, 775 |
| 6, | Resolutions adopted at a Meeting of the Delegates of every Town and District in the County of Suffolk, in Massachusetts, 776 |
| 9, | Committee appointed by the Delegates in Suffolk County, to wait on Governour Gage, and inform him of the alarm of the People at the Fortifications making on Boston Neck, 779 |
| 10, | Address of the Committee to Governour Gage, 779 |
| 10, | Answer of the Governour to the Committee, 779 |
| | The Answer of the Governour not satisfactory. Another Address unanimously voted to his Excellency, 780 |
| | The Governour declined receiving the second Address, 781 |
| 9, | Thanks to the Merchants of New-York for re refusing to let their Vessels transport Troops and Ammunition to Boston, 782 |
| 15, | Thanks to Mechanicks of New-York, for refusing to make Chests for transportation of Arms, or to contract for building Barracks at Boston, 782 |
| 10, | Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Lieutenant Governour Colden, The Contraband Trade between New-York and Holland deserves his particular attention. The number of Vessels from Holland for that Province is evidence; of the extent of that illicit Commerce; which is now particularly alarming, in consequence of the large quantities of Gunpowder shipped there for New-York, 782 |
| 11, | Letter from Israel Putnam to Captain Trumbull. Tea arrived at Salem, 783 |
| 7, | Letter from William Cooper to Israel Putnam, Chairman, of the Committee of Correspondence for Brooklyn, in Connecticut, 783 |
| 12, | Letter from William Cooper, in Boston, to a Gentleman in New-York. Explaining the manner in which the Donations made for the Poor of Boston are applied, 784 |
| | Committee appointed by the Town of Boston to receive the Donations and employ the Poor Sufferers by the Port Bill 785 |
| 13, | Letter from Governour Wentworth to the Earl of Dartmouth. Proceedings at Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire on the arrival of thirty chests of Tea there, on the 8th inst. Vessel sailed with the Tea for Halifax, on the 11th. Though this province has so far been moderate, yet the union of the Colonies, in sentiment, is not divided or lost in New-Hampshire, 786 |