1775. |
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justice of the measures the King has adopted, and in which His Majesty will firmly persevere, |
1517 |
July 1, |
Letter from a Gentleman in London to his friend in Virginia. The real friends of America wish they had acted with more temper and less violence; the King has recommended conciliatory measures, but whether they will be sufficient to allay the ferment on your side of the water time only will show, |
1517 |
1, |
Letter from London to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. The spirit displayed by all the Colonies give great satisfaction to all the friends of America. Substance of a conversation with Lord North, |
1518 |
1, |
Letter from the South-Carolina Delegates in the Continental Congress, to the Secret Committee in Charlestown, |
1519 |
1, |
Address delivered to the Inhabitants of a County in Virginia, assembled for the purpose of choosing Deputies to represent them in Colony Convention, |
1520 |
1, |
Letter from the Committee of Yorktown, Pennsylvania, to the Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress, Have raised a Company of Riflemen, and recommend Officers for them, |
1524 |
1, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington. The Connecticut Troops, under General Wooster, are encamped within two miles of New-York. No preparation has yet been made to occupy a post in the Highlands. He will leave New-York for Ticonderoga on Monday next, |
1525 |
1, |
Letter from Edward Fleming to the New-York Congress. Declines accepting the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel, in Colonel James Clintons Regiment, |
1526 |
1, |
Letter from S. Sp. Skinner, New-York, to a Nobleman in England. On the policy of the British Government towards the Colonies, and the disposition and the ability of the Colonies to resist |
1526 |
1, |
Letter from the Congress of Massachusetts to the Assembly of Connecticut, requesting the embargo in Connecticut may be taken off, so far as to permit the Inhabitants of the eastern parts of Massachusetts to purchase Provisions, they being reduced to the alternative of starving or supplying the Ministerial Troops, either of which they deprecate, |
1470 |
1, |
Recantation of James Ball, of Warwick, Massachusetts, |
1528 |
1, |
New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, |
1765-1768 |
1, |
Letter from General Folsom to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, |
1524 |
1, |
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to General Folsom, |
1529 |
2, |
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to Colonel Reid. Refuse to recall the Commission to Mr. McGregore, as Adjutant of his Regiment, and insist upon it that their appointments take place, |
1530 |
2, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress. Has had a conference with the New-York Congress on employing the Green Mountain Boys; and expects they will employ five hundred of them; from the accounts of Colonel Guy Johnsons conduct it is apprehended that the Inhabitants of the western part of New-York and New-Jersey, and the northern parts of Pennsylvania will be exposed to insults from the Savages, |
1439 |
2, |
Letter from General Gates to General Washington, |
1531 |
3, |
Meeting of Committee of Inspection for Baltimore Town; Henry Lloyd, of Boston, declared a wilful violator of the Continental Association, |
1531 |
3, |
Dorchester County, Maryland, Committee, prohibit the selling of any Merchandise brought to the County, without a proper Certificate that it was imported agreeable to the Continental Association, |
1532 |
3, |
Letter from John Alsop, Philadelphia, to the New-York Congress, |
1532 |
3, |
Letter from John Langdon, Philadelphia, to the New-Hampshire Congress. General Sullivan has left for home; the Riflemen will march |
1533 |
1775. |
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this week for Cambridge; the Powder Mills are going on fast; an effort will be made to import large quantities of Powder; Cannon should not be used, if it can be avoided, until there is a better supply of Powder, |
1533 |
July 3, |
Committee of Philadelphia have undertaken to erect a Saltpetre Manufactory, |
1533 |
3, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committee of Albany, with fifty quarter casks of Gunpowder, sent by the Continental Congress for the use of the Forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, |
1336 |
3, |
Proclamation of Governour Tryon, to postpone the meeting of the Assembly to the ninth of August, |
1533 |
3, |
Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of New-York, to Governour Tryon |
1534 |
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Governour Tryons Answer to the Address, |
1534 |
3, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the Continental Congress. The People called Green Mountain Boys are the inhabitants of the northeastern parts of Albany County, Charlotte County, and the New-Hampshire Grants; occupying the country from near Albany to forty or fifty miles north of Crown Point; but it has been so lately settled that not more than five hundred Men can be raised there. The Troops at his command are inadequate to the enterprise he is ordered to undertake, and which he is not at liberty to desist from without orders to the contrary, |
1535 |
3, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the Continental Congress. The information he has just received of the nefarious designs of Colonel Johnson, and the temper of the Indians, is so important that he has sent Mr. Kirkland, who brought him the information, to the Congress, |
1536 |
3, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the New-York Congress: enclosing a list of Military Stores, Provisions, &c., which he requests may be sent to Albany, for which place he leaves New-York to-morrow, |
1536 |
3, |
Letter from the New-York Committee of Secrecy to the Massachusetts Congress, informing them of the sailing of a Vessel from Scotland, bound to Salem, |
1537 |
3, |
Letter from Peter T. Curtenius to the New-York Congress, |
1537 |
3, |
S. Patrick to the New-York Congress; has a Furnace now in blast, and will deliver Iron Ball of any dimensions, any where on the North River, for fifteen pounds per ton, |
1538 |
3, |
Letter from Colonel Hinman, at Ticonderoga, to the New-York Congress. The Fortresses at Fort George and Ticonderoga cannot be maintained against Artillery. He is almost destitute of Powder, and it is not improbable that a sufficient force may be sent from Canada to take these Posts if supplies are not sent him. |
1538 |
3, |
Address of the principal Inhabitants on Lake Champlain to Benedict Arnold, Commander-in-Chief of an Expedition to Lake Champlain, for taking the Fortresses on said Lake, |
1088 |
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Answer of Colonel Arnold to the very respectable Inhabitants on Lake Champlain, |
1088 |
3, |
Letter to the Continental Congress, from Walter Spooner, one of the Committee from the Massachusetts Congress to Ticonderoga. It is of the utmost importance to New-York and the New-England Colonies that the Posts there should not fall into the hands of the enemy, and that we should have the command of Lake Champlain, |
1539 |
3, |
Letter from Walter Spooner to the New-York Congress. All possible care should be taken to keep the command of Lake Champlain, which may most easily be effected by Armed Vessels. A most dangerous mutiny was set on foot by persons employed by Colonel Arnold, an officer of Massachusetts, which was suppressed by the influence of Judge Duer, of Charlotte County, New-York, and the principal officers of the Connecticut Forces, |
1539 |
3, |
Letter from Walter Spooner to Governour Trumbull. When the Committee arrived at Crown Point, they informed Colonel Arnold that be must give up the command to Colonel Hinman; this he refused, declared he would not |
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