PROCLAMATION BY GOVERNOUR COLDEN.

By the Honourable CADWALLADER COLDEN, Esquire, His Majesty’s Lieutenant Governour and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of NEW-YORK, and the Territories depending thereon in AMERICA:

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the General Assembly of this Province stands adjourned to the third day of May instant: I have thought fit for His Majesty’s service to prorogue, and I do, by and with the advice of His Majesty’s Council, prorogue the said General Assembly to the seventh day of June next, of which all His Majesty’s subjects concerned therein are required to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.

Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Fort George, in the City of New-York, the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.

CADWALLADER COLDEN.

By his Honour’s command:

SAM. BAYARD, Jun., Deputy Secretary.

GOD save the King.

TIMOTHY PICKERING, JUNIOR, TO THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY FOR MASSACHUSETTS.

Salem, May 1, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: As a great number of men will soon be out of employ within the limits of the First Regiment, in Essex, it is thought by many highly expedient that they should have an opportunity to enlist into the Army. I imagine a Regiment may presently be enlisted, if field officers be appointed; and I beg leave to recommend Lieutenant Colonel John Mansfield, of Lynn, as well qualified to take the command of the proposed Regiment, and Captain Israel Hutchinson, of Danvers, to be the second in command. The latter is an active man, of experience in war, having made three campaigns; and both he and Colonel Mansfield will, I am persuaded, be very acceptable to the people. I do not think just now of a Major; but as soon as it is known that a Regiment is to be formed in the environs of Salem, I doubt not but a sufficient number of suitable persons will present themselves to fill all the vacant offices in the Regiment. I am, gentlemen, your most humble servant,

TIM. PICKERING, Junior.

To the Committee of Safety.

BOSTON COMMITTEE TO DOCTOR JOSEPH WARREN.

Boston, May 1, 1775.

SIR: We wrote you the 29th ultimo, per Mr. Edward Payne, who left the Town yesterday morning. As General Gage thought that he could not, in his official capacity, correspond with you on the subject you imparted to him, he desired us to write you on it; in conformity to which, we say that you have, in a great measure, adopted the same sentiments in your Resolves, which we are this day favoured with in yours of yesterday, saving that part of it that respects persons being sent from hence to carry into execution the desires of any of the inhabitants of the Province now in Boston, respecting their bringing their effects from the different parts of the Government where their dwelling places are. In order to remove all difficulties, we do propose to give to persons to be sent from hence, either servants or others, passes to the office you have established, desiring they may be furnished with passes for so long a time as may be proper for them, according to the distance they go; that they may have liberty to procure any help necessary for the conveyance of said effects, and that they may pass and repass unmolested.

If the above be agreeable, please to favour us with an answer by the bearer. We are, with respect and the greatest regard and sincere affection, Sir, your most humble obedient servants,

To Doctor Joseph Warren.

LEMUEL WILLIAMS TO BENJAMIN AIKIN, ESQUIRE, IN WATERTOWN.

Dartmouth, May 1, 1775.

SIR: I am desired to acquaint you that Mr. Samuel Allen, (by the desire of the principal part of the inhabitants of this place) is sent to you to know the minds of the Provincial Congress, whether it is most proper at this time for the Merchants in this place to send their Vessels and Provisions to sea, or not. Your early proposing the same to that respectable body, will much oblige your humble servant,

LEMUEL WILLIAMS.

ELBRIDGE GERRY TO THE MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESS.

Monday morning, 1775.

Mr. White, of Marblehead, from Boston, who has been an Addresser, was dismissed yesterday, after having been taken in a vessel of his own, with salt, and carried up to that place. He informs the inhabitants of Marblehead, that a transport arrived there yesterday with one hundred and fifty Troops, and sailed from Ireland in company with thirty-three more, which had on board eight Regiments, three hundred and fifty Recruits, and one Regiment of Dragoons. He parted with seventeen of them on Friday last; and it was supposed when they all arrived, that they would be twelve thousand strong; but I cannot conceive that there will be that number. Notwithstanding which, it may be highly necessary to be ready for such an army. This I have by a brother from Marblehead, just arrived, who received it from White, and thought it proper to apprize you of it, to be communicated to Congress, if necessary. He likewise adds an anecdote of a vessel in Marblehead, loaded with molasses, under custody of the Sloop-of-War posted there, which the inhabitants boarded the last night: they slipped her cables, and after running her into the wharf, where a number of our men armed, were posted to receive her, they unladed her cargo, and saved the whole. I am, in much haste, Sir, your very humble servant,

ELBRIDGE GERRY.

Honourable President of the Congress.

PETITION OF JONATHAN BREWER.

To the Honourable the President and Members of the Provincial Congress of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, now sitting in WATERTOWN, in said Province.

The Petition of Jonathan Brewer, Esq., of Waltham, humbly sheweth:

That your Petitioner having a desire of contributing all in his power for this Country’s good, begs leave to propose to this honourable House to march with a body of five hundred Volunteers to Quebeck, by way of the Rivers Kenncbeck and Chadier, as he humbly begs leave to apprehend that such a diversion of the Provincial Troops into that part, of Canada, would be the means of drawing the Governour of Canada with his Troops, into that quarter, and which would effectually secure the Northern and Western Frontiers from any inroads of the Regular or Canadian Troops. This he humbly conceives he could execute with all the facility imaginable. He therefore begs that this honourable Assembly would take this his proposal into consideration, and to act thereon as in their wisdom shall seem meet.

J. BREWER.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM HOLLAND, OF MAY 2, 1775, TO THE REV. MR. WILLIAM GORDON, OF ROXRURY.

When the Parliament met, I was in hopes the manly Address of the General Congress to the King, and that to the People of England, would have opened their eyes, and have led them to apply a remedy suitable to the disease; but instead of that, what have they done? Like true quacks, they deal in inflammatories, and attempt to heal by exasperating the evil they should cure. Of this nature is Lord North’s concession, the merit of which, (if it has any) is wholly destroyed by the Restraining Bill. By this they will further provoke those who are already sufficiently enraged, and force the discarded useless fishermen to fly to arms, and to fight against Administration, from a principle of hatred, as well as zeal for the publick. Never, sure, were Ministers more infatuated than those headless beings