1775.
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sanctioned by the Colonies, are highly necessary to be put in practice,
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421
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April 27,
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Letter from Colonel Isaac Lee to Governour
Trumbull. His Regiment is prepared with arms and ammunition, and ready to march at the shortest notice,
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423
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27,
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Letter from Jedediah Huntington to Jonathan Trumbull, Jun. Great numbers of Troops, or rather armed men, are at Roxbury, in much confusion. It is expected that the Inhabitants of Boston will be permitted to come out this day, but many are suspicious that the General intends to deceive them, till he gets possession of their Arms,
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423
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27,
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Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Selectmen of Boston. As soon as it is known what time the Inhabitants are permitted to leave Boston, those who wish to take refuge there shall go in,
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424
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27,
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Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Selectmen of Boston. It is reported that General Gage says the Provincials fired first upon his detachment. This report creates the greatest astonishment, as there is the clearest evidence it is untrue,
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424
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27,
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Letter from the Boston Committee to the Committee of Safety, enclosing the Agreement concluded this day between General Gage and the Committee,
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424
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27,
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Letter from Doctor Warren to Arthur Lee. The measures of the Administration have brought matters to a crisis. Lord Chatham and our friends must make up the breach immediately, or never. The next news from England must be conciliatory, or the connection between us ends, however fatal the consequences may be,
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425
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27,
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Letter from Quebeck. The Governours new Commission read there the 24th instant,
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425
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28,
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People assembling at Fredericksburgh, Virginia, to march to Williamsburgh to demand a restitution of the Powder taken by Lord Dunmore,
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426
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28,
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Proclamation by Governour Franklin, calling a meeting of the Assembly of New-Jersey, on the 15th of May next,
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426
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28,
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Meeting of Inhabitants at Perth Amboy, in New-Jersey. Deputies to the Provincial Congress, to meet on the 5th of May, appointed,
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426
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28,
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Address of the New-York Committee to the Freeholders and Freemen of the City and County of New-York, recommending the election of a new Committee, to consist of one hundred Members, on Monday next, the first of May, and at the same time to choose Delegates to a Provincial Congress,
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427
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28,
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Letter from the Committee of New-York to the Committees of the several Counties in the Colony, urging the immediate election of Deputies to a Provincial Congress, to meet on the 22d of May,
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428
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28,
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An American to the Inhabitants of New-York. Outrages of the British Troops on the 19th of April. Both the King and Ministry are determined, at all hazards, to destroy American liberty. There is nothing now left for us but to appeal to God, and use what strength we have in defence of our liberty,
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428
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28,
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Letter from Thomas Brown to Colonel George Pitkin. General Gage has opened the gates, and given permission to the Inhabitants of Boston to leave the Town,
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429
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28,
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Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Congress of New-Hampshire. A powerful army on our side must be raised at once. The other Colonies, as well as this, are fully convinced, that by immediate and vigorous exertions they may establish their liberty and save their Country,
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429
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28,
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Letter from Cambridge to a Gentleman in Newport, Rhode-Island. Our countrymen swarm to our defence from all quarters. We are busily organizing our Troops, and shall soon have an army of thirty thousand in the field. We have some hopes the Inhabitants of Boston will be permitted to leave the Town this day. They delivered up their Arms yesterday,
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430
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28,
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Letter from Stephen Hopkins to the Massachusetts Congress,
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430
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1775.
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April 28,
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Letter from James Angell to the Massachusetts
Congress. Will, on any alarm, furnish six hundred men from the three Battalions under his command in Providence, Rhode-Island,
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431
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28,
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Letter from Providence, Rhode-Island, to the Massachusetts Congress. The Assembly passed an act for raising Men, but as they omitted to authorize enlistments, no Men can be raised under it,
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431
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28,
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Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Stephen Hopkins. Samuel Murray and two Officers of General Gages Army will be sent to Providence, to be made use of for obtaining the liberty of Mr. Brown,
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432
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29,
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Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Stephen Hopkins, informing that the arrangement made with General Gage for the release of the Inhabitants of Boston prevents sending the hostages mentioned in their letter of yesterday,
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432
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28,
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Letter from the Committee of Safety to the several Towns in Massachusetts, conjuring them by all that is sacred to give all assistance in forming the Army,
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433
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28,
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Letter from the Newburyport Committee to the Committee of Safety, recommending Christian Febiger, a Dane, for an appointment in the Army,
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433
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28,
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Letter from the Selectmen of Sanborn ton to the New-Hampshire Congress. They are without Ammunition, and cannot obtain any,
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433
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28,
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Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Gage. The People of Connecticut dread nothing so much as a civil war, but will defend their rights to the last extremity,
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433
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29,
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Letter from General Gage to Governour Trumbull, transmitting him a circumstantial account of the unhappy affair that happened on the 19th instant,
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434
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A circumstantial account of an Attack that happened on the 19th of April, 1775, on His Majestys Troops, by a number of the People of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, transmitted by General Gage to Governour Trumbull,
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435
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Account of an Attack upon a body of the Kings Troops, by a number of People of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, on the 19th of April, 1775, transmitted by General Gage to Lord Dunmore,
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436
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Account of an Attack on the Inhabitants of Massachusetts, by the British Troops, acting under the orders of General Gage, on the 19th of April, 1775,
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437
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Extracts from several intercepted Letters, written by Soldiers in the Army at Boston, of the Engagement on the 19th of April,
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439441
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29,
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A serious admonition to the Inhabitants of Williamsburgh, Virginia, on the excitement caused by the removal of the Powder by Lord Dunmore. The Powder could only belong to the King, and none but him, or his representatives, could of right use it,
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441
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29,
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Letter from the Officers of the Albemarle Volunteers to Colonel George Washington. They are ready to march to Williamsburgh, and compel the immediate delivery of the Powder taken by Lord Dunmore,
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442
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29,
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Determination of a Council of one hundred and two Members, at Fredericksburgh, assembled in consequence of the seizure of the Powder at Williamsburgh by Lord Dunmore,
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443
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29,
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Letter from John Dickinson to Arthur Lee. The impious war of tyranny against innocence has commenced in the neighbourhood of Boston. The Continent is preparing for a vigorous resistance. We are a united, a resolved People. Our Smiths and Powder-Mills are at work night and day. Supplies are continually arriving,
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444
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29,
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Association of the City and County of N. York,
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471
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29,
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Letter from Oliver De Lancey, denying the authenticity of a Publication in an English Paper over the initials of his name,
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445
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29,
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Recantation of Jonathan Fowler and George Cornwall, of Westchester, New-York,
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446
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29,
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Letter from the Boston Committee to the Provincial Congress,
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446
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29,
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Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Committees
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