JAMES SULLIVAN TO THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

New-Hampshire, May 21, 1775.

HONOURED SIR: This will be handed to you by Mr. Scammell who I have recommended as major of the County of York Regiment.

I trouble you early, to let you know that the Regiment in the County of Cumberland will have not more than one gun to three men, and expect to be armed by the Province; If the Colony does not intend to arm them, I apprehend that notice thereof should be immediately given to Colonel March. It may be thought best to bring no men from that part of the Colony. I am, with much veneration, your very humble servant,

JAMES SULLIVAN.

To Joseph Warren, President of the Committee of Safety.

THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO THE MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESS.

Cambridge, May 21, 1775.

This Committee have often contemplated the mode of ascertaining the method of completing the several Regiments, and find no clear and explicit rule to their satisfaction, and therefore beg leave to suggest to the honourable Congress of this Colony whether a return from a muster-master, that such or such a Regiment had such a number of privates who had passed muster, would not be a good rule for ascertaining when a Regiment may be said to be full, and submit the consideration of the same to the honourable Congress. We are, &c.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a meeting of a Special Committee for the County of Prince William, held at the house of Thomas Young, in the Town of Dumfries, on Monday, the 22d day of May, 1775. Present: Foushee Tebbs, Esquire, in the Chair. Messrs. William Grayson, Thos. Blackbourn, Henry Lee, Andrew Leitch, Richard Graham, William Brent, John Brett, John McMillian, Henry Peyton, John Peyton, Hugh Brent, James Tripolett, Synaugh Helen, William Tebbs, Thomas Atwell, William Carr, Jesse Ewell, and Cuthbert Harrison.

A Proclamation by his Excellency Lord Dunmore, with the advice of His Majesty’s Council, having appeared in the publick papers, charging a certain Patrick Henry, and his followers, with rebellious practices, for extorting from the Receiver-General the sum of three hundred and thirty Pounds, in satisfaction for the Powder his Lordship thought proper to remove from the publick Magazine in Williamsburgh;

This Committee having taken the said transaction into their serious considerations; and it appearing to them from the Address of the Corporation of the City of Williamsburgh, on the removal of the Powder, wherein a claim is made, as restitution is required, and no right in Government by his Excellency at that time alleged, which we conceive he would naturally and necessarily have done if any such had existed; and having also been informed from respectable authority, that assurance had been given to several gentlemen in Williamsburgh, by his Lordship, that if no disturbances were raised the Powder should be returned: for these and other reasons which might be given, they are of opinion that the Powder removed from the publick Magazine in Williamsburgh, did of right belong to this Colony.

This Committee being further of opinion that the late violent and hostile proceedings of His Majesty’s Troops in the Massachusetts-Bay, in attempting to seize the military stores of that Colony, would have justified reprisals of a much greater magnitude:

Resolved, therefore, unanimously, That the thanks of this Committee are justly due to Captain. Patrick Henry, and the Gentlemen Volunteers who attended him, for their proper and spirited conduct on that alarming occasion.

By order:

EVAN WILLIAMS, Clerk.

BUCKINGHAM COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

The Committee of the County of Buckingham desire it, may be known to the Inhabitants of the lower Counties, that should any of them, in the impending struggle for our dearest rights, be driven from their habitations, that the people of Buckingham are disposed to give the most friendly reception to as many of the wives, children, and slaves of those their brethren, as their situations severally will permit; as also to join them with their whole strength to restore them to the peaceable and quiet enjoyment of their possessions.

Farther, that if any of their said brethren would choose, by way of precaution, to make settlements and cultivate grain in Buckingham, that, coming with recommendations from their County Committees, they may have lands assigned them, and continue on them as their own, until a cessation of the present troubles; also, that their stocks shall be equally welcome to the woods and fields of the said County, except such part only as may propagate the murrain, which, as endangering the common means of subsistence, may be equally dangerous to all parties. The Committee of Buckingham do not doubt but their sentiments upon the matter in question will be general throughout the interiour Counties.

Published by order of the Committee, held at the Court-House, the 22d of May, 1775.

ROLFE ELDRIDGE, Clerk.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a meeting of the Committee for the County of Middlesex, on Monday, the 17th of April, 1775:

A complaint was lodged against one Thomas Haddin, an inhabitant of said County, for refusing to sign the Continental Association, and reviling the same: Whereupon the Committee ordered him to be summoned to appear before them this 22d. of May; and it plainly appearing that he had been summoned, but that he not only refused to appear, but expressed himself in terms of the highest contempt, both of the Association and Committee:

Resolved, therefore, That the said Thomas Haddin be held forth to the publick as an enemy to American liberty.

Ordered, That a copy of the above be sent to the Printers of the Virginia Gazette, and that they be requested to print the same.

LODOWICK JONES, Clerk to Committee.

MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND.

At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Charles County, in Port-Tobacco Town, on Monday, the 22d day of May, 1775:

Captain GEORGE DENT, Chairman, and JOHN GWINN, Clerk.

Resolved unanimously, That George Dent, Samuel Hanson, William Smallwood, Josias Hawkins, Francis Ware, Joseph H. Harrison, Thomas Stone, Daniel Jenifer, Robert T. Hooe, John Dent, Samuel Love, Thomas Hanson Marshall, Philip R. Fendall, Samuel Hanson, of Samuel, William Harrison, and John H. Stone, be and are by this meeting appointed Deputies to represent this County in any General Convention to be held for this Province; and that any five or more of them have power and authority to act for and bind this County.

By order of the Committee:

JOHN GWINN, Clerk.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN PHILADELPHIA TO HIS FRIEND IN WILLIAMSBURGH, VIRGINIA DATED MAY 22, 1775.

We know the plan of Ministry is to bring the Canadians and Indians down upon us; for this reason the Provincial Troops of Connecticut and Massachusetts have wisely taken, by a brave coup de main, possession of the forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. In the former they got two hundred pieces of large cannon, some field-pieces, swivels, powder, &c. &c. The Congress have directed New-York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, to remove these stores, &c., to the south end of Lake George, and take strong posts there, to intercept the communication and march of Canadian and Indian forces into these Colonies.