its defence and security; which company to be on the Provincial Establishment, and to appertain to that Regiment which may be posted nearest to us.

And thus having represented our case to this honourable Congress, we have a prevailing confidence that our request will meet with a favourable reception, and we receive the end of our petition. The grant of which, your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

	JOHN TEWXBURY, ANDREW WOODBURY, ELEAZAR COUPT,		Selectmen.
	JOHN LEE, ANDREW MARSTERS, SAMUEL FOSTER, ELEAZER CRAFT,		Officers of Militia.
	JONATHAN BROWN, JOHN TEWXBURY, ANDREW MARSTERS, ANDREW WOODBURY, JOSEPH WHIPPLE.		Comm. Of Correspondence.

Manchester June 23, 1775.

MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESS TO GENERAL WARD.

In Congress, Watertown, June 23, 1775.

SIR: As it appears to this Congress highly probable that the Army of our enemies will speedily make the utmost efforts to force our lines and penetrate into the country, they have judged it absolutely necessary for the strengthening of the Army before Boston, that the eight Companies now posted in the County of Plymouth, belonging partly to General Thomas’s Regiment, and partly to Colonel Cotton’s Regiment, should immediately join the said Army. You are therefore directed, without delay, to give the orders necessarry for the marching the said eight Companies to the said Army, as soon as may be.

To General Ward.

GENERAL FOLSOM TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Medford, June 23, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: In my letter to you yesterday I acquainted you that on my arrival here, I immediately waited on the Captain-General. He then ordered me to make return to him of the two Regiments, viz: Colonel Stark’s and Colonel Read’s, of their situation and circumstances. On my return here, I sent orders to the two Colonels to. make return of their respective Regiments to me; Colonel Read immediately obeyed the order, but Colonel Stark repeatedly, and at last absolutely refused to comply. I am well informed by Mr. Stork’s best friends, that he does not intend to be trader any subordination to any person appointed by the Congress of New-Hampshire to the general command of the New-Hampshire Troops. I have tried all conciliatory methods, both by personal conversation and the mediation of friends, but without effect; in consequence whereof, I this afternoon again waited on the Captain-General at Head-Quarters, to take his orders on the matter. He requested me to advise with the Committee of Safety of New-Hampshire on the business. As Colonel Stark has received no commission as yet from you, he thinks he does not properly come under his cognizance.

Gentlemen, it is, I trust, unnecessary to hint to you, that, without a proper subordination, it will be absolutely impossible for me to execute the trust you have reposed in me. In my last conversation with Stark, he told me he could take his pack and return home, (and meant, I suppose, to lead his men with him.) I represented to him the dishonourable part he would thereby act towards both Colonies. I have since made inquiry, and find he would not be able to lead off many more than the supernumeraries of his Regiment, it still consisting of thirteen Companies. I think a Regiment might be formed of the men who have been under his command, without his being appointed to the command of them.

I must do the justice to Lieutenant-Colonel Wyman to say, he has behaved prudently, courageously, and very much like a gentleman, and I think I could recommend him for the command as soon as any person I know.

I think I shall never be able to do any thing with the Regiment, unless you make new regulations in the field officers, whom I would recommend should be taken out of the Captains of that Regiment, which I apprehend would facilitate the union of our troops.

I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

NATHANIEL FOLSOM.

ADDRESS OF COL. BAILEY TO THE NORTHERN INDIANS.

Newbury, June 23, 1775.

The present war is only between the King and a part of the Lords and America. The Lords say, all America shall become slaves or servants to them; shall plough no more than they say; eat nor drink, nor wear, nor hunt, only by their leave; shall not kill deer, moose, beaver, or any other thing, but by their consent. America say they will; and that the King, by the Lords’ advice, has sent red coats to kill us, if we will not be subject to what they say. And we have thirty thousand men, with guns, great and small, to fight in our defence; we only want to live as we have heretofore; we do not want to fight, if they would let us alone. You are as much threatened as we; they want you to kill us, and then they will kill you, if you will not serve them. Dreadful wicked men they be; they do not think there is any God that will punish them by and by. If you have a mind to join us, I will go with any number you shall bring to our Army, and you shall each have a good coat and blanket, &c., and forty shillings per month, let the time be longer or shorter. If you will go to Canada and get what intelligence you can, and bring it to me, at any place you shall set, I will meet you myself, and pay you well; further, if you are any way afraid of the Regulars, you and all those tribes shall have protection here, or we will fight for you in your own country, if wanted; but if you or the French, or any other Indians, fight against us, we know your country, and shall be troublesome to you; you know how we could fight last war. But I know you will be friendly, and you may depend upon us; we will pawn all we have for the most strict observance of any agreement made with you. We are now all brothers, and we will be so with you; for one God made us all, and all must meet before God in a little while.

MEETING OF THE LIVERY OF LONDON IN COMMON-HALL.

London, Saturday, June 24, 1775,

This day came on, at Guildhall, the election of Sheriffs for the City of London and County of Middlesex, and other officers, for the year ensuing. At a quarter past one o’clock, the Lord Mayor, attended by the two Sheriffs, Recorder, and the Aldermen Bull, Lewes, Thomas, Newnham, Hayley, Esdaile, Rawlinson, &c., ascended the Hustings, when the Common Crier opened the Court, and the Aldermen below the Chair, who had not served the office of Sheriff, were first put in nomination. The principal show of hands appearing in favour of Aldermen Hayley and Newnham, the Sheriffs declared the election to have fallen on them.

The names of Hayley and Newnham were received with the greatest applause, which was testified by almost every one in the Hall holding up their hands. About twelve people held up their hands for Alderman Rawlinson, and about seven for Alderman Thomas.

The Lord Mayor then came to the front of the Hustings, and acquainted the Livery, that in consequence of their Resolutions last Common-Hall, he waited on His Majesty, in his corporate capacity, with their Address, &c. He then read the King’s Answer, together with a Letter he received a few days after from the Lord Chamberlain, with his (the Lord Mayor’s) Answer.

Mr. Saxby, the Chairman from the Livery at the Half-Moon Tavern, then came forward, and made the following motion:

1. That the Town Clerk do enter in the Records of this City, the Letter from the Lord Chamberlain to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, with his Lordship’s Answer.

2. That the thanks of this Common-Hall be given to the Right Honourable John Wilkes, Lord Mayor, for his