1775. |
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June 12, |
Official notice of advices received by the Earl of Dartmouth, from Gen. Gage, to this date, |
968 |
12, |
Letter from General Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. A plan for a Rebellion has been long conceived, and the Peoples minds ripened for it, |
968 |
12, | Proclamation by General Gage, declaring the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in a state of actual Rebellion, offering pardon to all who lay down their Arms, excepting only from the benefit of pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock; suspending the Civil Law, and establishing Martial Law throughout the Province, |
968 |
12, |
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Continental Congress. Taking and keeping possession of Ticonderoga was necessary for the preservation of the Liberties of America;but in so doing there was no intention to disturb the People of Canada; and they request that means may be taken to remove the false impressions made upon the minds of the Canadians on this subject, |
970 |
12, | Memorial of Henry Howell Williams to the Massachusetts Congress, setting forth the losses he has sustained from a number of armed Troops, commonly called Provincials, on Noddle-Island and Hog-Island, in Boston-Bay, and praying relief, |
971 |
12 | Declaration of John Worthington to Committee for Springfield, Massachusetts, of his determination to support the measures of the Continental Congress, and of his willingness to defend the Rights and Liberties of America, |
971 |
12, | Committee for Springfield, in Massachusetts.Recommend John Worthington to the favourable opinion of the Publick, and to the treatment and respect due to a friend to the Country, |
972 |
12, | Acknowledgment of Timothy Brown, of Tewksbury, suspected as an enemy to his Country |
972 |
12, | Committees for Chelmsford, Billerica and Tewksbury. Satisfied with Timothy Browns Acknowledgment, |
972 |
12, | Petition of the Town of Kittery to the Massachusetts Congress. Their supplies of Provisions are cut off, and their Town is threatened to be beat down by the Captains of the Scarborough and the Canceaux Men-of-War; being reduced to the alternative, either to fight or perish by famine, they choose the first, and request supplies of Powder and Ball, |
972 |
12, | Letter from Elisha Phelps to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, |
973 |
12, | Letter from Newfoundland to a Gentleman in New-York. The People are suffering for bread; they curse New-York, which was the only place they depended on for assistance in subjugating the Americans; and propose the most inhuman procedures if any of the Continental Congress should fall into their hands, |
973 |
13, |
Letter from Governour Martin of North-Carolina, to Henry White of New-York; requests him to send a Royal Standard, and Furniture for a Colonels Tent, |
974 |
13, |
Letter from one of the Virginia Delegates in the Continental Congress to a friend in Williamsburgh. Colonel Skene has just arrived from London, charged with a power from the Administration to influence the Members of Congress, by arguments drawn on the Treasury. He has been made a Prisoner, and is on his parole, to remain within eight miles of Philadelphia, |
974 |
8, |
Letter from D. Cross, of Glasgow, in Scotland, to James Dunlop, Merchant, Fort-Royal, Virginia, |
975 |
13, |
Letter from D. Cross to James Dunlop and Patrick Kennan, Merchants, on Rappahannock, Virginia, |
975 |
13, |
Letter from Baltimore to a Gentleman in Virginia. Lord Dunmore left Williamsburgh, and went on board a Man-of-War, on Friday, the 8th instant, and refused to return on an invitation from the Assembly |
975 |
13, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, enclosing a Report of a Committee appointed to examine the Highlands,
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1775. |
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June 13,
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Letter from Benedict Arnold, Crown Point, to the Continental Congress. Has learned from a Messenger he sent among the Indians, that they are determined not to assist the Kings Troops. Governour Carleton has not succeeded in raising more than twenty Canadians; if the Congress think proper to take possession of Montreal and Quebeck, it can be done with two thousand Men; it would be more advantageous to take and keep possession of Quebeck than to rebuild Ticonderoga, |
976 |
13, |
Letter from Benedict Arnold to Governour Trumbull, |
977 |
13, |
Letter from John Palmer, Quartermaster General, to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, |
978 |
13, |
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the New-York Congress; informing them that they have requested the Continental Congress to quiet the apprehensions of the Canadians, that hostile preparations are making against them in some of the Colonies; and to counteract the evil effects of the malevolent misrepresentations of Colonel Guy Johnson to the Six Nations, | 1319 |
13, |
Instructions of the Massachusetts Congress to Walter Spooner, Jedediah Foster, and James Sullivan, a Committee appointed to proceed to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, by the road through the new settlements called the New-Hampshire Grants; giving them full power to do every thing in behalf of Massachusetts, for the effectual securing and maintaining those Posts, which they shall judge necessary, |
1408 |
13, |
Petition of Lemuel Prescott, of Boston, to the Massachusetts Congress, |
978 |
13, |
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to the Massachusetts Congress, |
979 |
14, |
Letter from the Committee of Safety for New-Hampshire to the Committee of Conway. They have sent twenty-five pounds of Powder; can spare no more, and can supply no Arms, |
979 |
14, |
Letter from one of the Virginia Delegates in Congress to his friend in Williamsburgh. Colonel Washington has been pressed to take supreme command of the American Troops at Roxbury, and will probably accept the appointment. Ten thousand Men will be kept up in Massachusetts, and five thousand in New-York, at the expense of the Continent, |
979 |
14, |
Address to the Inhabitants of New-Jersey, |
980 |
14, |
Letter from William Duer to the New-York Congress, |
981 |
14, |
Letter from William Goddard to the New-York Congress, enclosing papers which are explanatory of a design formed by the friends of Freedom for annihilating the old Parliamentary and Ministerial Post-Office in this Country, |
981 |
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Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office, |
982 |
14, | Letter from the New-York Congress to the Continental Congress, enclosing a copy of the Resolution directing the purchase of Flour for the Army, |
983 |
14, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, communicating information just received of the sailing of Troops from Ireland for Boston and
New-York, |
984 |
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Information given by Captain Thompson to the New-York Congress of the embarkation of Troops for America, |
984 |
14, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Wooster, requesting him to take charge of Angus McDonald, |
1299 |
14, |
Letter from M. S. Mumford to Jonathan Trumbull, Jun. A ship from London, with Major Skene and a quantity of Arms, arrived at Philadelphia, have been secured by the Congress, |
985 |
14, | Letter from Governour Cooke to Captain Wallace, of His Majestys Ship Rose, at Newport. Remonstrating against his interrupting the People of Rhode-Island in their lawful Trade, and seizing their persons and property; demands his reasons for doing so, and also demands the immediate return of the Vessels he has taken, |
985 |
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