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1774.

The Meeting determined to be illegal, and adjourned without transacting any business, 1076

Dec. 30,

Letter from Joseph Trumbull to Governour Trumbull. A supply of Ammunition should be procured, at the Colony's expense, as early as possible, 1077
30, Meeting of Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Boston Report on the Letter from General Gage to Peyton Randolph, President of the Congress, adopted, and to be forwarded to Mr. Randolph. Thanks to the Colonies, for their liberal Donations. Delegates to the Provincial Congress appointed, 1077
30, Letter from Thomas Cushing to Josiah Quincy, Junior, 1080
31, Letter from a Mercantile House at Yorkshire, in England, to a Gentleman in New-York. The Resolves of the Congress will have no effect in England. Parliament cannot take notice of them. Manufactures in England in a flourishing condition, and Trade scarcely ever so good before, 1080
31, Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. A general disposition every where to adhere to the Resolutions of the Congress. In Philadelphia the Committees have undertaken to regulate the disposition of all British Goods imported since the first of December, 1081
31, Inhabitants of Maryland forming Military Companies, 1081

1775.
Jan. 2,

Meeting of the Freeholders of Richmond County, Virginia. Delegates to the Colony Congress appointed. Instructions to the Delegates, 1021
2, Meeting of Inhabitants of Charles County, Maryland. Delegates to the Convention, and Committees for general Subscription in each County, appointed. Members added to the Committee of Observation, 1081
3, Meeting of the West India Merchants, in London. Letter from the Planters. General Meeting of Merchants and Planters called, 1082
3, Letter from London to a Merchant in New-York. Proceedings of the Congress has alarmed Lord North, 1083
3, Meeting of the Freeholders of Middlesex County, New-Jersey. Committees of Observation, for the several Districts of the County, appointed, 1083
16, Meeting of the General Committee of Observation for Middlesex County, New-Jersey. Proceedings of the Congress approved. Committee of Correspondence appointed. Ministerial writers endeavouring to effect a disunion of the Colonies, condemned, 1083
4, Circular Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to the Governours of the several Colonies, directing them to use their utmost endeavours to prevent the appointment of Deputies to the Congress, in May next, 1085
4, Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York, The Manufacturing Counties begin to suffer, 1085
4, Letter from London to a Gentleman in Virginia. Meetings of Merchants and Planters. The West India Planters fear nun, if the American Acts are not repealed, 1085
4, Meeting of the Merchants and others concerned in the American Commerce, at the King's Arms Tavern, London, 1086
 Speech intended to have been spoken at the Meeting of the North American Merchants, at the King's Arms Tavern, 1087
6, Letter from London. Account of the Meeting of the American Merchants, at the King's Arms Tavern, 1087
9, Letter from Leeds to the Printer of the London Evening Post, contradicting the representations in a Letter from Leeds, referred to by Mr. Barclay, at the Meeting, on the 4th, 1088
16, Letter from David Barclay, enclosing the Letter from Leeds, referred to by him at the Meeting, on the 4th, 1089
21, Letter from Samuel Elam, at Leeds, avowing himself the writer of the Letter to Mr. Barclay, and sustaining the representations there made, of the effects of the American Association on British Manufactures, 1089
 Letter from Manchester to a Merchant in London, enclosing a copy of a Letter from a Merchant in New-York, countermanding orders for Goods, 1091

Jan. 4,

Meeting of Committee for Charles City County, Virginia. Direct the sale of Goods recently imported, 1091
4, Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. If he finds there is not a majority of the Assembly, which meets on the 11th, in favour of prudent measures, will prorogue them. There is still a majority of the respectable people in the City, who promote peace and discountenance violence, 1092
4, Town Meeting at Barnstable, in Massachusetts. Refuse to purchase Arms or Ammunition, encourage Minute Men, or send Delegates to the Provincial Congress, 1092
5, An Epistle from the Meeting of Sufferings of the Quakers, held in Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, 1093
5, Address from a Freeholder of Essex, in New-Jersey, to the Committee of Essex County, condemning the Resolutions of Congress, 1094
5, Reply to the Address to the People of New-Jersey, dated November 19th, 1096
 Address of the Committee of Correspondence of Albany, in New-York, to the Publick, 1097
5, Letter from the Albany to the New-York Delegates in the Continental Congress, 1098
5, Letter from the Committee of Correspondence, at Newport, in Rhode-Island, to the Philadelphia Committee. The Association strictly adhered to by the Merchants of the Colony, 1098
6, Letters at Charlestown, from West Florida, with information of the state of Indian affairs there, 1099
6, Meeting of Freeholders of several Towns in Ulster County, New-York. Approve the Association, and all the other measures, of the late Congress, 1100
6, Letter from the Boston Committee of Donations, to the Philadelphia Committee, 1100
7, Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Lieutenant Governour Colden. The affairs of the Colonies have come to a crisis, and will be taken up by Parliament immediately after the holidays, 1101
 Memorial of Colonel Thomas Ord, for a location of five thousand acres of Land in New-York, for his services, enclosed in the foregoing Letter, 1101
7, Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York. The Resolves of Congress have pushed matters to an extremity, and render a complete decision of the dispute inevitable. The question now is, Whether America shall be independent of, or subordinate to, the Parliament, 1101
7, Meeting of the Inhabitants of Woodbridge, in Middlesex County, New-Jersey. Committee of Observation appointed. Determination to carry into effect the Association, 1102
9, Letter from a Merchant in London to a friend in Virginia, There is no disposition in the Cabinet to give America any redress, The Colonies should preserve their union, and provide themselves with Manufactures, Arms, and Ammunition, for it is more than probable they will have occasion for them, 1104
9, Meeting of the Inhabitants of Epsom, in New-Hampshire. Pedlars to be tarred and feathered, and forfeit their Goods, 1105
2, Meeting of the Inhabitants of Exeter, in New-Hampshire. Unanimously adopt the Association, appoint Committee of Observation, and Delegates to the Convention, to meet on the 25th, 1105
9, Meeting of the Freeholders of Morris County, New-Jersey. Unanimously agree to abide by the Association. Order the election of Committees of Observation by each Township of the County, and elect a new Committee of Correspondence. Rivington declared an enemy to the Country, and his Newspaper to be discountenanced for the future, 1106
9, Letter from Samuel Adams to the Committee appointed in New-York to receive and transmit Donations for the relief of the sufferers in Boston, 1105

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