Provincial Convention of New-Hampshire,

List of Members,

Matthew Thornton chosen President, and Ebenezer Thompson Secretary,

Committee to draw up Rules to be observed in the Convention,

Committee to report on establishing a Post-Office,

Rules for the government of the Convention,

Post-Office at Portsmouth established,

Colonel John Hale authorized to proceed to Albany, or any other place he thinks proper, to procure Fire-Arms and Gunpowder for the use of the Province,

Committee to prepare and bring in a plan of ways and means for furnishing Troops,

Committee to prepare an Address to be sent to the several Towns in the Province, respecting disputes about Tories,

Petition from Major Andrew McClary, praying redress of sundry grievances, read,

Letter from Colonel John Stark, requesting a supply of Fire-Arms, read,

Recommendations to the Inhabitants to support good and wholesome Laws; to encourage all Religious worship; to encourage the Woollen and Linen Manufactory, and the making of Saltpetre,

Committees of the several Towns requested to have a watchful eye over all persons who have used opprobrious expressions respecting the several Congresses,

Committee from the Massachusetts Congress, introduced into the Convention,

Selectmen of several Towns requested to furnish the Arms wanted by Colonel Stark,

Resolutions authorizing the raising and equipment of two thousand Men to serve until the last day of December, unless the Committee of Safety may judge it necessary to discharge them sooner,

Thanks to the persons who took a quantity of Gunpowder from the Castle called William and Mary, in this Province,

Committee of Safety appointed,

Committee of Supplies appointed,

Committee to sell Gunpowder to the frontier Towns,

Muster-Masters appointed,

Colonel Fenton required to appear before the Convention, concerning his Letter to the People of the County of Grafton,

Colonel Nathaniel Folsom appointed to take the general command of the Troops raised, or to be raised, in this Government,

Post-Office established at Exeter,

Nicholas Gilman appointed Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Colony,

All Officers and Soldiers in the service to be taxed as other persons are,

The several Towns are recommended to encourage Manufactures in general, and that of Fire-Arms in particular,

Instructions to the Committee of Safety,

A Company of not exceeding sixty Men, to be enlisted in the Northwesterly parts of the Colony, to act as occasion may require,

Powers conferred on the Committee of Supplies,

Thanks to the persons who removed sundry Cannon from the sea-coast to Portsmouth, and to Doctor Hall Jackson for assisting in the matter, and bringing the intelligence,

Committee of Supplies authorized to import Military Stores from any place whatever,

Committee of Portsmouth requested to take measures to prevent the passage of the British Ships-of-War up to the Town,

An Address to the Inhabitants of the Colony, agreed to,

Addresses to the Congress of New-York, to the Congress of Massachusetts, to the Colony of Connecticut, to the Continental Congress, and to John Sullivan and John Langdon, Delegates, adopted by the Convention,

Oath to be taken by all the Officers and Soldiers of the New-Hampshire Army, now raising for the defence and security of the Rights and Liberties of the American Colonies,

Obligation of secrecy as to the Proceedings of the Convention,

Col. Hale returned without Powder or Small-Arms, but gives great encouragement they can soon be had from the Southern Colonies,

Receiver-General authorized to give his notes of hand for ten thousand and fifty Pounds,

Bills of Credit of Massachusetts, to have a free currency in New-Hampshire,

Lenity and forbearance in Creditors towards Debtors recommended,

Convention adjourned to the 27th instant,

Committee of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The application of Mr. Weems, for permission to purchase an Anchor and Cable of Captain Carcaud, of the Ship Industry, rejected. No person can purchase or receive them consistent with the Continental Association,

Field-Officers chosen for Newcastle County, Delaware,

Letter from the New-Jersey Assembly to their Delegates in the Continental Congress,

Petition of James Rivington to the Continental Congress,

Town Meeting in Brooklyn, King’s County, New-York. Their reasons for uniting with the other Counties of the Colony in support of their rights; choose Deputies to the Provincial Congress, and pledge themselves to abide by the directions of the Congress,

Letter from Col. Guy Johnson to the Magistrates and others of Palatine, Canajoharie, and the upper Districts in Tryon County, New-York; has had repeated accounts that a body of New-Englanders were to come to seize him. If the Indians find their Superintendent disturbed they will take dreadful revenge,

Letter from Colonel Guy Johnson to the Magistrates and Committee of Schenectady, and Mayor of Albany,

Act of the Rhode-Island Assembly, prohibiting the Oath of Office being administered to Governour Wanton,

Letter from the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts to General Preble, at Falmouth,

Letter to the Massachusetts Congress, from the Committee appointed to confer with the Congress of New-Hampshire,

Resolutions of the New-Hampshire Congress for raising and equipping two thousand Men,

Letter from the Rev. William Gordon to Joseph Warren. If the Committee will send him Hutchinson’s loose Letters, he will examine them, and mark whatever appears to be important to the Publick,

Letter to the Oneidas from the Mohawks; written at Guy Johnson’s,

Resolutions of the Committee of Tryon County, New-York, on the Letter of Colonel Guy Johnson, of May 20, and on the Letter from the Mohawks to the Oneidas,

Letter from the Committee of Palatine District, Tryon County, to the Albany Committee.— The communication with Albany is entirely stopped by Colonel Johnson, who has five hundred men to guard his house, which he has fortified. There is not fifty pounds of Powder in the District; they have an open enemy before them, and treacherous friends at their backs,

Letter from Boston to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. General Gage has broken his engagement with the People of Boston, after they had delivered up their Arms,

Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress,

Letter from James Sullivan to the Massachusetts Congress,

Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts,

Letter from the Norfolk, Virginia, Committee, to the Committee for Prince George County, with an examination of Captain Charles Alexander,

Prince William County, Virginia, Committee.