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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

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

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

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

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