thunder shower. All things look well; we are now strongly posted, so are the Regulars. I believe neither side are willing to attack each other in their lines.

We have just got overland from Cape Cod a large fleet of whale-boats; in a day or two we shall man them in Cambridge and Mistick Rivers, and try to keep our enemy’s boats from insulting us. The Regulars do not seem willing to come out, but our people are perpetually provoking them.

A gentleman who got out of Boston Monday, July 10, says, that the inhabitants were numbered, and amounted to 6,573; the soldiers numbered, women and children, to 13,600. Three hundred Tories are chosen to patrole the streets, forty-nine of a night. Very sickly; from ten to thirty die in a day, and no bells allowed to toll. Master Lovell taken up and put in jail, which is in consequence of some letters found in Dr. Warren’s pocket; and Master Leech also. Released out of jail four. Mr. Hunt saying, that he wished the Americans might kill them all, was confined in jail. Eleven dead of the wounded prisoners at Charlestown; Colonel Parker dead, he having declared, at his last hour, if he got well he would do the same.

The officers say, damn the rebels, that they would not flinch. A great number of floating batteries are building, and five transports and three sloops are sailed for hay and wood to the eastward.

This gentleman also says, that the officers and soldiers triumph very much at the death of Doctor Warren, saying it is better to them than five hundred men.

GENERAL GATES TO GENERAL LEE.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, July 12, 1775.

SIR: I am commanded by the General-in-Chief to acquaint you, that he is exceedingly desirous to draw the body of the troops posted at Roxbury as near and as completely together, for the defence of the several works, as the nature of the ground and the conveniency of covering them will admit; and to that end, the General wishes you would inform him what tents, sails, or boards, may be wanted to cover the men, and they shall be forthwith supplied from hence. I have it also in command from the General to recommend it to you to have the houses removed out of the street at Roxbury, as they may cover and facilitate the approach of the enemy. The General further directs me to desire that you will exert your utmost vigilance to get your several works finished and completed, your lines closed, and particularly the abattis, and the platforms immediately laid. As we are much in want of boats for Mistick and Cambridge Rivers, you will, as soon as possible, send two for each of these rivers to the Head-Quarters at Cambridge.

With great regard, Sir, I am, your most humble servant,

HORATIO GATES.

To General Lee.

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLIES TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE CONGRESS

Chamber of Supplies, Watertown, July 12, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: General Washington has sent a memorandum for four hundred rounds of thirty-two pound shot, and we have ordered the same from the furnace which we employ. But lest we should be disappointed in point of time, we think it necessary to apply for the same to be sent from Portsmouth, if to be procured.

We are, truly, gentlemen, your very humble servants,

DAVID CHEEVER, per order.

FRANCESTOWN (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) COMMITTEE.

Whereas, it has been falsely reported that the Committee of Safety for Francestown were not fairly and legally chosen, and by reason of said report the publick were dissatisfied with the proceedings of said Committee: whereupon, we, the Selectmen of said Francestown, judged it our duty to call in some disinterested persons to determine the matter, and thereupon sent to the Committees of Safety for two neighbouring Towns, who, when convened, unanimously voted and agreed that said Committee were fairly and legally chosen, and had good right to act in all cases for the safety of said Francestown, and that their proceeding and determination are and ought to be as valid as the proceedings and determinations of any Committee of Safety in any Town whatsoever.

Signed by order of the Selectmen:

WILLIAM MCMASTER, Town Clerk.

Francestown, July 12, 1775.

HILLSBOROUGH (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) COMMITTEE.

Amherst, July 13, 1775.

Whereas, the Delegates for the County of Hillsborough, in the Province of New-Hampshire, in Congress, appointed a Committee from several Towns to hear, examine, and try John Quigly, Esq., a person lately confined in the Jail at Amherst, on suspicion of being an enemy to the liberties of America, and lately liberated from said Jail, but still behaves as an open and avowed enemy to the liberties of America: Said Quigly being notified of time and place of trial did not appear. Ordered. That his contempt be recorded. And upon a full and fair examination of sundry evidences, we find him guilty of the several crimes laid to his charge, and we look upon him as a dangerous person to be suffered to go at large: and we do hereby caution all persons from all connections with him.

DAVID BADGER, per order of Committee.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, July 19, 1775.

SIR: The bearer hereof, John Quigly, Esq., has met with difficulty, and thinks it unsafe for him to tarry at the place of his usual abode, by reason of a disaffection in some persons against him. We would recommend it to you, to take him into your company in the common service.

Captain Timothy Bedel, Esq.

JOHN QUIGLY’S DECLARATIONS

Whereas, there has been wickedly and maliciously raised and propagated against me, the subscriber, certain scandalous falsehoods, with an intent, as must be supposed, to cause the publick to view me in the odious light of an enemy to my Country; whereupon I declare that I never said or did any thing with an intent to destroy the liberties of America, or to hurt the publick good, and am now ready to risk my life and fortune in the defence of my Country’s just rights, when properly called, as it always has been and still is my sincere wish to live in peace and harmony with my Country, and serious determination to promote to the utmost of my power the publick weal and tranquillity of the same, whose glory I view as closely connected with my own interest; and I hope my future conduct will fully prove the sincerity of my present declaration.

JOHN QUIGLY.

Francestown, July 26, 1775.

In Committee of safety, Francestown, July 26, 1775.

Resolved, That the foregoing declaration of John Quigly, Esq., now laid before the Committee, is fully satisfactory to us, and we hope will remove any ill impressions that may have been made on the minds of the good people of this Continent, in consequence of his being committed to jail, or confined there; as we put up an advertisement, desiring all persons that had any thing to offer against said Quigly to bring it in to us, and no proper evidence appearing to oppose the said Quigly, and it appearing to us that many false reports has been made and spread against said Quigly, and this being the second trial, we, upon examination, not finding just cause to deem him an enemy to this Country: therefore, it is our opinion that the said Quigly ought to be received and treated as a friend to his Country.

Signed by order of the Committee

WILLIAM MCMASTER, Clerk.

BALTIMORE (MARYLAND) COMMITTEE.

At a special meetings of the Committee of Baltimore Town, held on Thursday the 13th July, 1775, at 4 o’clock, P. M. Present: Mr. William Smith, Chairman, and twenty-eight Members.

A Letter from James Christie, Jun., Merchant of this Town, directed to Lieutenant-Colonel Gabriel Christie, of His Majesty’s Sixtieth Regiment, at Antigua, having been intercepted, was laid before the Committee, and ordered to