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called to determine whether they will choose Deputies to the Provincial Congress; or whether they will abide by the loyal measures of the General Assembly,
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282
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April 6,
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Meeting of the Inhabitants of New-York; advice of the Committee against exporting Nails, and supplying the Troops at Boston, read and approved. William and Henry Ustick having purchased intrenching tools for the Army at Boston, are declared to be inveterate foes to American freedom, and the people are desired to break off all connections and dealing with
them for the future,
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283
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6,
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Letter from Alexander McDougall to Josiah Quincy, Jun. The Statement of Grievances, and not the Petition to the King, the Memorial to the Lords, or the Remonstrance to the Commons, contains the true opinions of the late House of Assembly of New-York. The only instance of a violation of the Association at New-York is that of the goods taken from the Beulah,
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283
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Letter from Boston, for Mr. Rivingtons Gazetteer,
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284
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6,
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Phileirene to the People of Massachusetts, defending the measures of the Parliament against the complaints of the Continental Congress,
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286
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6,
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Address to the Inhabitants of Massachusetts-Bay, No. 8, from the County of Hampshire. On the right of the Parliament to an unlimited control over the Colonies,
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289
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7,
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Letter from Alexander Elmsley, Agent for North-Carolina, in London, to Samuel Johnston. Suppressed the Petition to the King from North-Carolina, because it contained strange inaccuracies, and reflections on the Parliament and Ministry, and was not respectful to the King: it was probably owing to this suppression that North-Carolina was excepted from the Restraining Bill,
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296
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7,
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Chesterfield County, Virginia, Committee, will encourage the manufacture of Linen, Cotton and Woollen Cloth, and subscribe funds for the support of such manufactures; direct John Brown of Norfolk, and Captain Sampson of the Ship Elizabeth of Bristol, to be published as persons deserving the censure and contempt of the People of the Colony,
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298
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Committee of Kingston, in Ulster County, New-York, convict Jacobus Louw, on his own admissions, of selling Tea; and publish him as an enemy to the rights and liberties of America,
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298
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7,
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Application of the Portsmouth, New-Hampshire Volunteers to Colonel Theodore Atkinson, for permission to beat a drum,
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299
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Southampton, Virginia, Committee, direct subscriptions to aid Mr. Tait in making Salt, and make provision for supplying the Militia of the County with Ammunition,
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299
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8,
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Address to the People of Virginia, on the Instructions drawn up for the Delegates to the Convention at Richmond, from a certain County in Virginia, |
300
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Address of the Freeholders of Fincastle County, Virginia, to Lord Dunmore,
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301
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8,
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Proclamation of Governour Penn, by the advice of the Council of Pennsylvania, revoking his Proclamation of the 2d of November last, in relation to the Boundaries between Pennsylvania and Maryland,
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Letter from Gov. Penn to Gov. Eden. By advice of Council, informing him of his determination to issue a separate Proclamation,
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303
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8,
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Letter from Dutchess County, New-York; the inhabitants of Charlotte Precinct have refused, by a large majority, to choose Deputies to the
Provincial Congress,
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304
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Protest of the Freeholders of seven Precincts in Dutchess County, New-York, against the appointment of Robert R. Livingston, Egbert Benson, and Morris Graham, as Deputies to the Provincial Congress, a majority of the Freeholders being opposed to any such Congress,
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A Freeholder of Dutchess County, denying the truth of the statements in the foregoing Protest, which was never publickly read, or approved of by one of the Precincts named in it,
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304
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1775
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April 8,
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Letter from the Committee of Montreal, in Canada, to the Committee of Safety in Massachusetts. The People more divided by their interests than by their religion, language, and manners; the apprehensions of evil from the unlimited power of Government, strikes all opposition dead. The bulk of the People, both English and Canadians, wish well to the cause of the Colonies, but dare not stir a finger. They wish, to know if English Delegates would be admitted to the Congress, without entering into the General Association,
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305
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Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York. Great preparations making in England to reduce the Colonies to submission. The Colonies must get ready to fight, for nothing can save them but their own strength; the cry of blood is gone out against them,
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306
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10,
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Committee for Prince Georges County, Maryland, publish Thomas Bailey as an enemy to the Country for landing imported Salt, in violation of the Continental Association; and John Baynes, for killing a Lamb, contrary to a Resolve of the Provincial Convention,
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308
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10,
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Committee for Anne Arundel County, Maryland, declare a Paper printed in the London Publick Ledger of the 4th of January, entitled Facts relative to the Riot at Annapolis, in Maryland, a false, scandalous and malicious narrative; and the Author of it an inveterate enemy to the liberties of the Province in particular, and of British America in general,
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Facts relative to the Riot at Annapolis, in Maryland, the Paper referred to by the Committee for Anne Arundel County,
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309
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10,
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Address of the Committee of Inspection for Falmouth, Massachusetts, to the Publick. A statement of the conduct of Captain Thomas Coulson, with the reasons of the Committee for publishing him as a violator of the Continental Association,
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Committee of Inspection for Falmouth, appoint a Sub-Committee to prevent the landing of prohibited Merchandise belonging to Captain Thomas Coulson, March 2,
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The Committee determine that using the Sails, Rigging and Stores, imported by Coulson, will be a violation of the Continental Association, and order them to be sent back to Bristol in the Ship that brought them here, March 3,
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313
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April 11,
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Information received in London of the sailing of a Vessel from Stettin, loaded with Fire-Arms and Ammunition for the Americans,
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313
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11,
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Inhabitants of Richmond County, in New-York, refuse to send Deputies to the Provincial Congress,
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314
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10,
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Meeting of the Freeholders of Westchester County, New-York. Deputies to the Provincial Congress appointed, and thanks voted to the minority in the late General Assembly for their firm attachment to the union of the Colonies and rights and liberties of America,
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314
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11,
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Meeting of the Committees appointed by the Inhabitants on the east side of the range of Green Mountains. The inhabitants being in danger of having their property and their lives taken from them by the Government of New-York, wholly renounce, and will resist the authority of that Government, till they can be made secure in their lives and property, or till they can lay their grievances before the King in Council, with a Petition that they may be taken out of so oppressive a jurisdiction, or annexed to some other Government,
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315
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11,
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Speech of the Chief Sachem of the Stockbridge Indians, in answer to a Message sent them by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts,
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315
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12,
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Regulus to the King, on his Answer to the Address of the City of London,
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12,
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Letter from General Gage to Governour Martin
of North-Carolina. The leaders in Massachusetts, by their arts and artifices, still keep up a seditious and licentious spirit. The newfangled Legislature, termed a Provincial Congress, have taken the Government into their own hands, but they are much puzzled how to act. Fear in some, and a want of inclination in others, will be a great bar to their coming
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