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1775.      
 
go over to Quebeck to see if the Canadians are in motion to come on our back settlements,
514
May 5,
Petition of Timothy Langdon to the Massachusetts Congress, complaining of Colonel Thompson, of Brunswick, who has seized Edward Parry, for having prepared Masts for the King; the matter having been previously examined and disposed of by the Committees of Lincoln,
515
5,
Letter from James Gowen, of Kittery, to General Ward, asking permission for Johnson Moulton to raise a Regiment,
515
5,
Letter from General Thomas to the Massachusetts Committee, requesting them to send persons to examine the Trunks of Governour Hutchinson,
515
6,
Letter from the Committee of Safety to General Thomas. The effects of all persons are to go into Boston without search or detention; therefore the Trunks of Governour Hutchinson are not to be detained or injured,
515
6,
Proclamation by Lord Dunmore, charging all persons, on their allegiance, not to aid, abet, or give countenance to a certain Patrick Henry, of Hanover County, or any of his deluded followers,
516
6,
Letter from Carlisle, in Pennsylvania, to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. About three thousand men have associated, and about fifteen hundred are prepared. The Committee have directed that five hundred men be taken into pay immediately,
516
6,
Printed Letter to the Regular Soldiers of Great Britain, distributed among the Soldiers in the Barracks in New-York,
516
6,
Delegates from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress received in New-York on the 8th: with the Delegates from New-York, received in New-Jersey,
517
6,
Letter from the Rev. William Gordon, with a copy of a Paper found among those of the late Josiah Quincy,
518
6,
Letter from Montreal. Occurrences there on the 1st of May, when the new Quebeck Act took effect in Canada,
518
6,
Letter from William Whipple to the Massachusetts Congress, on the arrest of Mr. Parry by Colonel Thompson,
520
6,
Letter from Metcalf Bowler to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. The Assembly of Rhode-Island are using every method in their power to have their men in readiness to take the field as early as possible,
520


NEW-HAMPSHIRE ASSEMBLY.

May 4, 
New-Hampshire Assembly,
519
 
List of the Members,
519
5,
Directed to choose a Speaker,
520
 
John Wentworth chosen Speaker,
520
6,
Letter from the Speaker of the House of Representatives of New-York laid before the House,
521
 
Speech of Governour Wentworth to both Houses,
522
 
Assembly adjourned to the 12th of June next,
524
     
 

CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC.

May 7,  
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr. William Small,
523
7,
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Committee of Albany, New-York,
523
7,
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to Col. James Scammons. It is understood that it would be agreeable to the people of York that Johnson Moulton should have the command of the Regiment to be raised there, and therefore request Colonel Scammons to give way for him,
524
7,
Order of Admiral Graves to Lieutenant Graves, to seize a Vessel at Marblehead, and bring her into Boston,
525
8,
Resolution of the Common Council of Williamsburgh, Virginia, on the breaking into the Magazine and taking thence the Fire-Arms,
525
8,
Meeting of the Sussex County, Virginia, Committee. Declare the Letter of Lord Dunmore to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated December 24, 1774, to be fraught with calumny, falsehoods and illiberal reflections against the People of Virginia. Direct Troops to be raised, Officers appointed, and Ammunition furnished.—Committee of Intelligence and Correspondence appointed,
526
1775.    
May 8,
Meeting of the Freeholders of Mecklenburgh County, Virginia. Appoint a Committee to secure a due observance of the Continental Association, and every member of the Committee required to exert his endeavours to enlist Volunteers, as required by the late Provincial Convention,
526
8,
Meeting of Prince George, Virginia, Committee. Every person importing any Goods into this County must, before they are landed, produce a Certificate from the Committee whence they were reshipped, that they were imported into this Colony before the 1st day of February last. Committee of Intelligence appointed,
527
 
Proceedings in relation to Capt. Charles Alexander,
527
8,
Louisa County, Virginia, Committee. Thanks to Captain Patrick Henry and the Hanover Volunteers, for procuring satisfaction for the Gunpowder taken by Lord Dunmore,
529
8,
Meeting of the Freeholders of Westchester County, New-York. Deputies to the Provincial Congress appointed. The Committee then signed the Association, and appointed Sub-Committees to superintend the signing of it throughout the County,
529
8,
New-York Committee. Members present,
529
 
All persons importing Arms or Ammunition required to deliver them to the Committee in ten days, and all persons prohibited from disposing of any in any other manner,
530
9,
Committee directed to report a Resolution for the regulation of such vessels as shall depart with Provisions,
530
 
Committee appointed to have the Muskets fitted with steel Rammers,
531
 
Thanks to Mr. Sharpe for delivering a number of Arms gratis,
531
10,
Committee to prepare a Letter to the Delegates in Congress, requesting the advice of the Continental Congress with respect to the conduct to be observed towards any Troops that may arrive here,
531
 
Address to the Lieutenant-Governour read and approved of,
531
11,
Committee appointed to convey the earliest intelligence to the Counties in this Province,
532
 
Physicians requested to abstain from inoculating for the Small-Pox,
532
12,
Committee appointed to present the Address of the Committee to the Lieutenant-Governour. No Inhabitant to be treated as an enemy to the Country but by order of the Continental or Provincial Congress, or this Committee,
532
14,
Committee of Correspondence directed to write to the neighbouring Committees to prevent the Man-of-War in the Harbour from being supplied with Provisions for the Troops at Boston, from New-Jersey or Staten-Island,
533
 
Address of the Committee to Lieutenant-Governour Colden,
533
 
His Honour’s Answer,
534
8,
Petition from the Inhabitants of Ridgebury, in the Township of Ridgefield, to Gov. Trumbull,
536
8,
Committee of Malden and Chelsea order their suspicions, of Doctor Samuel Danforth’s attachment to the Country, to be communicated to General Ward,
536
8,
A Constitutional Post-Office is now rising on the ruins of the Parliamentary one,
536
 
List of the Post-Offices established,
537
 
Mr. Holt’s Post-Office in New-York, (Note,)
538
8,
Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to the Selectmen of the Town of Hopkinton. A violation of the natural right of an individual to remove his person and effects wherever he pleases, would ill become those who are contending for the inalienable right of every man to his own property, and to dispose of it as he pleases. It is hoped that Mr. Barret’s example will not become infectious,
791
8,
Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to the Committee from Portsmouth, New-Hampshire,
792

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