1775.
Feb. 9, | Meeting of the Committee of Correspondence of Brentwood, in New-Hampshire. Will abide by the advice of the Continental Congress. Pedlars not permitted to sell, and persons who trade with them, or entertain them, to be treated as enemies to the Country, 1222 |
| 10, | Committee of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, for carrying the Association of the Continental Congress into execution, discountenance Gaming, 1223 |
| 10, | Letter from London to a Gentleman in Virginia. Parliament have declared Massachusetts in rebellion, Americans must now look firmly forward. Submission and Chains, or, Resistance and Liberty, is the alternative, 1223 |
| 10, | Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York. Determination of the King, and preparations in England, to make the Colonies submit, 1224 |
| 10, | Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York. All hopes of conciliation between England and her Colonies, are entirely at an end. The King and Parliament have pronounced their destruction. Fleets and Armies are preparing with the utmost diligence for that purpose, 1225 |
| 10, | Information received at Williamsburg, from the Indian Frontiers, and from Pittsburgh, 1226 |
| 10, | Premiums offered by the Committee of Bedford, in Pennsylvania, for the encouragement of Industry and Manufactures, 1226 |
| 10, | Address of the Grand Jury to his Majesty's Justices, assembled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the City and County of New-York, 1227 |
| 10, | Letter from Connecticut to Mr. Rivington. A Presbyterian Minister, near North-Haven, has declared he had practised the Military Exercise, with the intention of going to Boston against the King's Troops, 1227 |
| 10, | Letter from Massachusetts to a Gentleman in London, 1227 |
| 11, | Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Bedford County, Pennsylvania, to Joseph Read. Approve of the Resolves of the Convention, and bound by them, 1229 |
| 11, | The Royal Standard erected on a mast seventy-live feet high, at Shawangunk, in Ulster County, New-York, by a respectable number of his Majesty's loyal Subjects 1230 |
| 11, | Letter from Kent County, in Delaware, published in the Pennsylvania Ledger, 1230 |
| | Letter from the Committee for Kent County. Delaware, February 15, to the Committee of Correspondence for Philadelphia, in relation to the Letter published in the Ledger, of the 11th instant, 1231 |
| | Letter from Philadelphia to Mr. Rivington, February 16. Tyranny of the Committee—they are aiming at a general Revolution, and promote every measure to overthrow the Constitution, 1231 |
| | Letter from Philadelphia to a Gentleman in New-York, February 20. Proceedings in regard to the Letter said to be from Kent County, in Delaware, 1233 |
| 13, | Thanks of the Common Council of London to Lord Chatham, for offering his Plan for conciliating the differences between Great Britain and the Colonies, 1233 |
| | Answer of Lord Chatham to the Common Council of London, 1233 |
| 13, | Letter from London. Nothing will move the King and his Ministers, but absolute submission or a successful resistance. The Ministry affect to believe there will be no resistance, and assure themselves of the defection of New-York, 1234 |
| 13, | Committee of Elizabethtown, in New-Jersey, direct the suspension of all Trade and Intercourse whatsoever, with Staten Island, in New-York, 1234 |
| 14, | Meeting of the Committee of York County, Pennsylvania. Recommend the collection and preservation of Gunpowder; encourage Military Associations; direct the transmission of Contributions to Boston; and appoint Delegates to the next Convention, 1235 |
Feb. 14, | Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the City and County of Burlington, in New-Jersey. Association of the General American Congress, read and approved, and Committee of Observation appointed, 1235 |
| 14, | Two Inhabitants of Ridgefield not permitted to remain for the night in Wethersfield, but sent back to Ridgefield, under an escort, 1236 |
| 14, | Resolutions adopted at a Meeting of the Delegates from the several Towns in the County of Fair-field, in Connecticut, 1236 |
| | Association of the Liberty Men of Ridgebury, in Fair field County, Connecticut, 1239 |
| 14, | Letter from Samuel Adams to Arthur Lee, 1239 |
| 15, | Meeting of the Committee of Observation for the Township of Hanover, Morris County, New-Jersey. Will enforce and comply with every Article of the Association of the General Continental Congress; will have no dealings with James Rivington, and will discountenance any Post-Rider, or Carrier, who shall bring his Pamphlets or Paper into the County, 1240 |
| 16, | The Governour of Pennsylvania presents to the Council the complaint of Mr. Waterhouse, Inspector of his Majesty's Customs, that the Magistrates and Sheriff of Chester County had refused their aid in preventing the rescue of a Vessel seized on the Delaware, with contraband Goods, 1241 |
| | Letter from Francis Welch, a Tide-Waiter, dated February 8th, communicating a statement of the facts in the case complained of by Mr. Waterhouse, 1241 |
| | The Council are of opinion the Magistrates and Sheriff could not legally afford the assistance that was required of them, 1242 |
| 16, | Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of Philadelphia, to the Committee of Correspondence of New-York. The frequent publications in New-York, of dissensions in Philadelphia, are false representations. The Committee have not met with the least impediment in carrying into execution the Association. The Inhabitants of Pennsylvania continue immoveably firm to the cause of Liberty, and will, with inviolable faith, observe the conduct prescribed by the Continental Congress, 1243 |
| 16, | A Ship at New-York, from Glasgow, with a cargo of Dry Goods, which did not arrive within the time prescribed in the Association, not permitted to land her cargo, 1243 |
| 17, | Letter from Adam Stephen to Richard Henry Lee, 1244 |
| 17, | Letter from Governour Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. The King's Speech has cast a damp upon the Faction; but they still entertain hopes that the Resolves of Congress will work in their favour. The loyalty in the New-York Assembly has had a very good effect, and it is said they are changing their sentiments at Philadelphia, 1244 |
| 17, | Meeting of the Freeholders of the Town of Plymouth, in New-Hampshire. Instructions to John Fenton, Representative of the Town in the Assembly, 1245 |
| 17, | Letter from Governour Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth, 1708 |
| 18, | Meeting of the Committee of Cumberland County, Virginia. Premium for the manufacture of Gunpowder, 1247 |
| | Address of the Committee of Cumberland County, to the Delegates who represented Virginia in the late Continental Congress, 1247 |
| 19, | Letter from Boston, to a Gentleman in New-York. The Provincial Congress, distracted and divided in opinion, separated without doing any thing more than is in their published Resolves; the principal object of their meeting was to cajole the men of property, but no impression could be made on them. Their dupes drop from them very fast, and it is expected the few Demagogues will soon be left alone, 1248 |
| 20, | Meeting of the Freeholders of Hanover County, Virginia. Delegates to the Convention chosen, and instructed to consent to the imposition of any Tax the Convention may judge proper for defraying the expense of any measure necessarily adopted for securing American Liberty, 1248 |
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