1774. | the Manufactures, and how they may be improved in the Province, 905 |
Nov. 29, | Committee to make an estimate of the loss and damage of every kind, occasioned by the Acts of Parliament since the operation of the Port Bill, 995 |
| Committee to state the amount of the Sums which have been extorted from us since 1763, under certain Acts of the British Parliament, 995 |
30, | Members to attend the Continental Congress on the 10th of May next, to be appointed tomorrow, 996 |
| Letters from Doctor Franklin to Mr. Cushing, read and referred to the Provincial Committee of Correspondence, 996 |
Dec. 1, | Report of Committee on Proceeding's of Continental Congress, read, considered, and recommitted, 996 |
| Thanks of the Congress to the other Colonies, for their Donations to the Town of Boston, 996 |
| Committee to call upon the Secretary for a list of the Mandamus Counsellors, 997 |
2, | Report of Committee on the state of the Province, 997 |
| Members to represent the Province in Continental Congress, chosen, 997 |
3, | Report of Committee on the state of the Province, considered, 997 |
5, | Committee to prepare an Address to the Clergy, desiring them to exhort the People to sustain the Congress, 997 |
| Report on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress adopted, 997 |
6, | Committee to correspond with the Inhabitants of Canada appointed, 999 |
| Brief to be circulated through the Province, to promote Donations for the Sufferers in Boston and Charlestown, 999 |
| Address to the Clergy, 1000 |
| Mandamus Counsellors who have published a renunciation of their Commissions, 1000 |
7, | Committee to prepare a true state of the number of Inhabitants, and of the Exports and Imports of the Colony, 1001 |
8, | Resolutions recommending the encouragement of Manufactures in the Province, 1001 |
| Two General Officers chosen, 1002 |
9, | Committee on an Address from the Baptists to the Congress, 1003 |
| Report of Committee relative to Publick Moneys in the hands of Constables and others, adopted, 1003 |
| Committee on a Plan of Military Exercise proposed by Captain Pickering, 1004 |
| Report of Committee on Address from the Baptists, adopted, 1004 |
| Committee on Letter from the Town of Hard-wick, 1004 |
10, | Report on Letter from Hardwick, 1004 |
| Address to the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Towns and Districts of Massachusetts Bay, 1005 |
| Report of Committee on the state of the Province relative to assuming Civil Government, considered, and laid on the table, 1006 |
| Returns of the Officers and Men, of the Minute Men, and the Militia to be made, 1006 |
| Report of Committee on the state of the Province, 1007 |
| Expense of transmitting the Address to the Canadians to be paid by this Government, 1008 |
| The Congress dissolved, 1008 |
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CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC. |
Nov. 25, | Meeting of a great number of the Freeholders of Chesterfield County, Virginia. County Committee appointed, 1007 |
25, | Meeting of Freeholders of James City County, Virginia. Committee of Observation appointed, 1008 |
26, | Committee for the upper part of Frederick County, Maryland. Punishment of John Parks, 1009 |
28, | Address of Committee of Correspondence to the Freeholders of the County of Essex, in the Province of New-Jersey, 1009 |
30 | Address of the Committee of Philadelphia to the Publick, 1010 |
| Committee of Observation for Philadelphia County, 1010 |
Nov. 30. | Queries addressed to the Committees of Observation, on the Pamphlet, "A Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans," 1011 |
| Meeting of Freeholders of Prince George's County, Maryland. Committees of Observation and Correspondence, and Delegates to the Convention appointed, 1012 |
Dec. 1, | Meeting of Freeholders of Elizabethtown, Essex County, New-Jersey. Committees of Observation and Correspondence appointed, 1012 |
2, | Letter from Governour Wentworth to the Earl of Dartmouth. The measures recommended by the Continental Congress received, implicitly, by the People, as matters of obedience. Exportation of Sheep prevented, by order of the Committee, 1013 |
4, | Letter from Arthur St. Clair to Governour Penn. Attempt of Mr. Connolly to enforce the jurisdiction of Virginia, at Pittsburgh. Mr. Scott, a Pennsylvania Magistrate, arrested by Connolly, on the 12th of November, and brought before Lord Dunmore, at Fort Bard, 1013 |
4, | Lord Dunmore arrived at Williamsburg, from his expedition against the Indians, having brought them to terms, and made a Treaty with them, 1014 |
| Letter from Red Stone. Causes of the Indian War traced from the Treaty made by Colonel Bouquet, with the Shawanese, in 1764, to the fit-tack of Captain Michael Cresap upon a party of Indians, in April, 1774, 1015 |
| Letter from the Camp, on Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the Great Kenhawa, dated October 17th. Account of the Battle at that place, on the 10th, 1016 |
| Letter from Staunton, in Virginia, of November 4th. A further account of the same Battle, 1017 |
| List of killed and wounded Virginians in the Battle at Point Pleasant, on the 10th of October, (Note,) 1018 |
| Message from Logan, an Indian Warrior, to Lord Dunmore, 1020 |
| Speech of Logan, a Shawanese Chief, to Lord Dunmore, (Note,) 1020 |
5, | Address of the City of Williamsburg to Lord Dunmore, 1019 |
| Answer to the Address, 1019 |
| Address of the President and Professors of William and Mary College to Lord Dunmore, 1019 |
| Address of the Borough of Norfolk to Lord Dunmore, 1019 |
| Answer to the Address, 1020 |
5, | Meeting of the Freeholders of Richmond County, Virginia. Committee of Inspection appointed, 1021 |
5, | Committee of New-Castle County, Delaware. Approve the Continental Association. Recommend to the Inhabitants, from sixteen to fifty years of age, to form themselves into Military Companies, 1022 |
5, | Meeting of the Inhabitants of Reading, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Committee of Observation appointed, 1023 |
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ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA. |
Dec 5, | The Assembly meets, 1028 |
8, | Report from the Members deputed, in behalf of this Province, to attend the General Congress, 1023 |
9, | Resolutions of the Congress considered, 1023 |
10, | Further considered, and unanimously approved, 1023 |
15, | Deputies to the Congress, to meet on the 10th of May next, appointed, 1023 |
| Committee to prepare Instructions to the Deputies appointed, 1024 |
20, | Message from the Governour. Recommends repair of Barracks in the Northern Liberties, 1024 |
23, | Answer to the Governour's Message. The House does not think expedient to repair the Barracks, 1024 |
24, | Instructions to the Deputies considered, and the further consideration postponed to the next Session, 1024 |
| Adjourned to the 20th of February next, 1025 |
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CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC. |
Dec. 6, | Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York. First information of the Resolves of the Congress of the States of America, 1025 |