the powers of Government: they also request the Congress to take the general direction of the Army,

Letter from Henry Young Brown to the Massachusetts Congress. Communicates his suspicions that the Indians are about to take sides with Canada. There are but ten Guns, twenty pounds of Powder, and half a hundred of Lead, in the Town of Brownfield. Applies to the Congress for assistance,

Middlesex County, Virginia, Committee. Thomas Haddin, having reviled the Continental Association, and refused to sign it, is held forth to the publick as an enemy to American Liberty,

Cumberland County, Virginia, Committee, approve of the Resolution of Maryland to stop Exportations to Quebeck, &c., and in consequence of the alarming situation of American affairs, especially in the Province of New-York, recommend a Colony Convention be immediately called,

Address of Cumberland County to the Inhabitants of the lower parts of Virginia, offering protection and support to their Wives and Children, in case of an invasion of the Colony by sea,

Cecil County, Maryland, Committee. Charles Gordon having maliciously aspersed the Continental Congress and the Provincial Convention, is declared an enemy to the Country, and as such none are to have dealings or communications with him,

John Brown arrived at Philadelphia from Ticonderoga, an Express to the General Congress, with an account of the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and of an attempt made by the British to find a passage for an Army from Canada to Boston,

Colonel Easton at the Provincial Congress in Watertown, with an account of the Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point,

Philadelphia Committee direct the republication of the Resolve prohibiting the killing of any Sheep under four years old,

Votes in First, Second, Third, and Fourth Companies of Brookhaven, with the Poll Lists, for the choice of a Deputy to the Provincial Congress of New-York,

Account of the commencement of Hostilities between Great Britain and America, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, by the Reverend Mr. William Gordon, of Roxbury, in a Letter to a Gentleman in England,

Letter from the Congress of Massachusetts to the Assembly of Connecticut, suggesting the propriety of having the Cannon at Ticonderoga and Crown Point removed immediately to the Camp at Cambridge, and the appointing of Colonel Arnold to take charge of them down, with all possible haste, to prevent disputes between him and other officers,

Committees of Correspondence for the several Towns and Districts of Worcester County, in Massachusetts, requested to meet at the Court-House on Wednesday next, May 24th,

Letters of Governour Hutchinson, lately discovered, show what a slave he has been to the Ministry. Copy of one from him to General Gage, enclosing one from Bernard, in 1771,

Letter from the Committee of Northborough to General Ward, charging Ebenezer Cutler, late of Grotop, as an enemy to his country,

Letter from the Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Committee, to the Provincial Congress. Request to know if a Vessel may load with Masts,

Declaration by the Grand Jury of Newcastle, Delaware,

Letter from Arthur St. Clair to Joseph Shippen, Jun., enclosing Letter of James Cavet, dated May 18th. Yesterday a County Meeting, in Westmoreland, passed Resolutions to arm and discipline the Militia, and formed an Association,

General Committee of Association for Newark, in New-Jersey, stop all Exportations to Quebeck, Nova-Scotia, Georgia, and Newfoundland,

Instructions to the Deputies elected to represent the Town of Newark, in Essex County, in the Provincial Congress of New-Jersey,

New-York Committee. Committee appointed to institute a Military Night Watch,

Letter from the New-York Committee to the Governour of Connecticut; thank him for the kindness of Connecticut in sending Troops to their assistance, but request he may direct their encampment on the Western frontiers of Connecticut,

Directions for a Military Night Watch in the City of New-York,

Letter from the Committee of Palatine District, Tryon County, New-York, to the Albany Committee,

Letter from Colonel Guy Johnson to the Committee of Schenectady, New-York,

Authentick Account of the taking of the Fortresses at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, by a party of Connecticut Forces,

Letter from Ethan Allen to James Morrison and the Merchants that are friendly to the cause of Liberty in Montreal, soliciting their immediate assistance, in Provisions, Ammunition, and Spirituous Liquors, not as a donation, for he is ready to pay for them,

Letter from the Camp at Cambridge. Information from Halifax, that the People destroyed a quantity of Hay, purchased and ready to be shipped for the Dragoons at Boston,

Letter from Colonel John Stark to the Provincial Congress of New-Hampshire,

Address of the New-Hampshire Congress to Governour Wentworth. The British Troops being sent to America to enforce Acts of Parliament by fire, sword, and famine, request to know from him the truth of a statement that he has made application for two Regiments, to be stationed at Portsmouth,

Caroline County, Virginia, Committee, Resolutions on Lord Dunmore’s Letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated December 24, 1774; his Proclamation of the 3d of May last; and on Captain Montague’s Letter to Thomas Nelson, threatening to burn the Town of York,

Address to the Inhabitants of Virginia, on the conduct of Lord Dunmore, and in defence of Patrick Henry,

Address to the Inhabitants of the Manor of Cortlandt, in New-York, on the efforts of the Tories to obtain the ascendancy in the Manor, and their attempt to commit the People to “The Loyalist’s Test” last winter,

Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Committee of Supplies,

Letter from Benedict Arnold to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. Surprised and took St. John’s, with the King’s Sloop of seventy tons, on the 18th instant. Allen is about to keep possession of St. John’s, with eighty or a hundred men; this is a wild, impracticable scheme, if it could be carried into execution. A thousand or fifteen hundred men will be necessary to repair and keep Ticonderoga this summer,

List of Cannon taken at Crown Point,

List of Cannon taken at Ticonderoga,

Return of Ordnance Stores found at Ticonderoga,

Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress, urging the immediate settlement of the Regiments, “if we would save our Country,”

Letter from James Russell to Joseph Warren, President of the Provincial Congress,

Letter from Abijah Brown to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. He has removed the Cannon from Waltham to Watertown, and is ready to march to Cambridge,

Petition of Benjamin Thompson, of Concord, in New-Hampshire, to the Commitee of Safety. Requests a thorough examination into the charges against him, of being inimical to the liberties of this Country,

New Hampshire Committee of Safety. Orders to Winborn Adams, and nine others, each to enlist one Company of sixty-two able-bodied Men: form of enlistment,