1774.
Oct. 28. | The Resolve for a Non-Consumption Agreement, presented and adopted, 848 |
| | Report on the Warlike Stores in the Commissary General's Office, 848 |
| 29, | Report on a System of Military Exercise for the Province, 848 |
| | Consideration of the state of the Executive Courts of the Province, referred to the next meeting of the Congress, 849 |
| | Committee of Safety directed to write to the Continental Congress, showing the grounds and reasons of the proceedings of this Congress, 849 |
| | Reply to the Governour's Answer agreed to, unanimously, and a Committee appointed to present it, 849 |
| | Committee to publish certain parts of the Proceedings of the Congress, passed on the 26th and 28th, 851 |
| | Two Members added to the Committee of Safety, 853 |
| | Adjourned to the 23d of November, 853 |
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CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC. |
Oct. 9, | Letter from Montreal, to a Gentleman in New-York. Opinions of the Inhabitants of Canada relative to the Quebeck Act, 853 |
| | General Meeting of the English Inhabitants of Montreal, 853 |
| 10, | Letter from Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, and Silas Deane, to Governour Trumbull.—Proceedings of the Congress, 854 |
| 11, | Account of the arrest and imprisonment of Samuel Dyre, of Boston, 855 |
| 12, | Proclamation of Governour Penn. Inhabitants and Magistrates of the country west of Laurel Hill required to pay due obedience to the Laws of Pennsylvania, without the least regard to the Proclamation of Lord Dunmore, 856 |
| 12, | General Committee of South Carolina recommend the non-importation of India Tea, and the non-exportation of any Arms or Ammunition whatsoever, 857 |
| 13, | Letter from Sir James Wright to the Earl of Dartmouth. Protests and Dissents of the People in different parts of the Province, show that they are against any Resolutions; and that those attempted by a few in Savannah, are held in contempt, 867 |
| 14, | Address from the County of Worcester, in Massachusetts, to Governour Gage, 868 |
| | Answer of the Governour, 869 |
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CONNECTICUT ASSEMBLY. |
Oct. 13. | Meeting of the General Assembly of the English Colony of Connecticut, 858 |
| | Towns in the Colony ordered to provide double the quantity of Powder, Bails, and Flints, they were before obliged by Law to provide, 858 |
| | Cannon at New-London to be mounted, and kept fit for service, with a proper supply of Powder and Balls, 858 |
| | Fifteen thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit, to be issued, 858 |
| | Taxes levied on the Polls and rateable Estates in the Colony, 858 |
| | Instructions and Regulations to the Overseers appointed by the Assembly for the Mohegan Indian; 859 |
| | Memorial of Zebulon Butler and Joseph Sluman, Agents for the Town of Westmoreland. 859 |
| | Memorial of Ebenezer Hazard, of New-York, 861 |
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PENNSYLVANIA ASSEMBLY. |
Oct. 14, | New Assembly meets, 869 |
| | List of Members, 869 |
| | Edward Biddle chosen Speaker, 869 |
| | Approved by the Governour, 870 |
| 15, | John Dickinson added to the Deputies from Pennsylvania to the General Congress, now sitting, 870 |
| | Entertainment to be provided for the Members of the Congress, on Thursday next, 870 |
| 17, | Message from the Governour. Recommends keeping the Rangers a longer time in Service, 871 |
| 19, | The Rangers to be kept in Pay until the first of November, 871 |
| | Answer to the Governour's Message, 871 |
| 21, | Adjourn to the 5th of December, 871 |
CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC. |
Oct.
14 | Express from Lord Dunmore arrived at Williamsburg, with the Speeches at his Conference with the Indians, 871 |
| | Speech of Captain White Eyes, 872 |
| | Answer of Lord Dunmore to the Delawares and Six Nation Chiefs, 872 |
| | Intelligence from Captain Pipe, at a Conference with several Delaware and Mohawk Chiefs, 874 |
| | Speech of the Mohegans to the Shawanese, 874 |
| | Answer of the Shawanese, 874 |
| | Reply of the Mohawk and Delaware Chiefs to Lord Dunmore, 875 |
| | Speech of the Big Apple Tree, a Mohawk Chief, 875 |
| | Answer of Lord Dunmore, 875 |
| | Reply of the Delawares, 876 |
| 16, | Speech of Edmund Burke, on offering himself a Candidate to represent the City of Bristol in Parliament, 876 |
| 16, | Letter from Dr. Samuel Cooper to John Adams, 878 |
| 18, | Proclamation of Governour Penn. Officers of the Customs prevented by a Mob from seizing a quantity of foreign Sugar that had not been entered at the Custom House, nor the Duties paid. All Civil Officers required to bring the Offenders to justice, 878 |
| 17, | Letter from Captain Arthur St. Clair to Joseph Shippen, Jun., 879 |
| | Speech from Captain Pipe to the Governour, in answer to his Messages sent to the Shawanese and the Delawares, 879 |
| 17, | Letter from Governour Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. Additional Troops expected from Quebeck, New-York, and Newfoundland, Despairs of any overtures for paying for the Tea, unless recommended by the Continental Congress, 880 |
| 19, | Circular Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to the Governours of the Colonies, 881 |
| 19, | Order of the King, in Council, prohibiting the exportation of Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition from Great Britain, 881 |
| 20, | General Committee of South Carolina recommend Merchants and others, as they prize the tranquillity and happiness of America, not to take advantage of the publick distresses by raising the prices of imported Goods, 881 |
| 20, | Address to the People of Halifax County, in Virginia, 882 |
| 20, | Tea at Annapolis, in Maryland, imported in the Brig Peggy Stewart, from London. Acknowledgement of the Owners of the Tea, that they had committed a most daring; insult, and an act of the most pernicious tendency to the Liberties of America; they ask pardon of the People, and voluntarily turn the Vessel with all her Sails and Colours flying, 885 |
| 20, | Thanks to the Merchants of New-York, who assisted in providing Barracks for the Troops at Boston, 886 |
| 20, | Address to the Inhabitants of New-York. Reasons for their paying obedience to Great Britain, and the advantages they will derive from submission, 886 |
| 21, | Resolutions of sundry Inhabitants of Frances Town, in New-Hampshire, 888 |
| 22, | Letter from Silas Deane, at Philadelphia, to Governour Trumbull. The greatest unanimity has prevailed through the whole of the Proceedings of the Congress, 888 |
| 24, | Proclamation of Governour Wright. Grants of Land in Georgia, 889 |
| 24, | Proclamation of Governour Wright. Treaty with the Creek Indians, at Savannah, on the 20th inst. Trade with the Indians renewed, 1137 |
| 24, | Letter from Quebeck to a Gentleman in Boston, 891. |
| | Instructions to the English Gentlemen of the Committee of Montreal, from the Canadian Farmers, 891 |
| 25, | Association signed by the Ladies of Edenton, in North Carolina, 891 |
| 26, | Letter from Joseph Reed, at Philadelphia, to Josiah Quincy, Jun., London. Instead of divided counsels and feeble measures in the Colonies, ail now is union and firmness. The Members of the Congress part with each other on terms of the utmost friendship, 892 |