Granted, that Colonel Saltonstall have the pay of a Colonel for his service, instead of the pay of a Captain, heretofore allowed.

Granted, for the balance of Elijah Wimprey’s Account for his services in the Treaty of the Oneida Tribe of Six Nations, ten Pounds one Shilling and seven Pence.

Granted to Reuben Cognahue the balance of his Account for his services in the Treaty with the Oneida Tribe of the Six Nations, six Pounds nine Shillings and seven Pence.

Granted and ordered, that his Honour Governour Trumbull be paid by the Colony Treasurer nineteen Pounds twelve Shillings and five Pence half-penny, for Postage paid for Letters, Post-Riders, and other expenses in Government service, as per Account.

Granted his Honour Governour Trumbull art order on the Committee of Pay Table, for the sum of thirty-two Pounds four Shillings and nine Pence, being for cash paid for Postage of Letters, Expresses, and other Continental services.

ADDRESS OF THE TOWN OF MONTROSE.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, of Montrose, in Council assembled, transmitted to the Earl of Suffolk, one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, and by him presented to His Majesty.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and
Town Council of MONTROSE, in Council assembled.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

Deeply impressed with a sense of the many blessings we enjoy under your Majesty’s most clement reign, we beg leave to express our grateful sense thereof, and that of the good people of this your ancient Town, whom we at present represent.

We have beheld, with surprise and uneasiness, that the forbearing and lenient measures pursued by your Majesty, in order to bring our fellow-subjects in North-America to reflection, reason, and attention to their own true interest, have, through their infatuation hitherto, not had the desired effect. We sincerely regret their folly, condemn their obstinacy and ingratitude, and are much concerned they have allowed themselves to be so deluded as to rise up in arms against their Mother Country, by which they have been nourished and protected, and who lately, at an expense of so much blood and treasure, rescued and defended them from their enemies. But while we lament their misconduct, and their misimprovement of the great advantages they enjoyed under your Majesty’s mild Government, we disapprove of and bear testimony against their rebellious proceedings, and are still filled with greater astonishment and horrour at the unnatural and seditious practices of some of our own countrymen, who, under the mask of patriotism, but in order only to serve their own selfish and mercenary designs, have, we fear, instigated them to and encouraged them in such illegal and disorderly practices.

We very much detest and disclaim all such proceedings; and we do assure your Majesty, that, as we highly approve of the prudent measures you have hitherto taken in support of the honour and independence of your Crown and the supremacy of your Parliament, so we will in our several stations exert ourselves to the utmost of our power for supporting your Majesty therein, and in all such future measures as the wisdom of your Parliament may find necessary for securing and preserving unimpaired the just and constitutional rights of Great Britain over all her Colonies.

We are happy in acquainting your Majesty, that the trade and manufactures in this Town and neighbourhood have not in the smallest degree been hurt or affected by the American ports being shut against us; that at present our people are all duly employed in their several occupations, our manufactures find a ready demand, and peace and harmony prevail amongst all your Majesty’s subjects here.

We should rejoice, and do most earnestly wish that a reconciliation would yet take place, that so the farther effusion of human blood might be prevented, and peace, with all the blessings thereof, restored to your Majesty’s Dominions. But as, through the wantonness and unreasonable conduct of the Colonies, this Nation has been long severely agitated and distressed, great expense incurred, and the lives of many of our countrymen causelessly taken away in defence of the Nation’s lawful rights and property, we therefore humbly hope and beg your Majesty that vigorous measures be adopted, and continued until such a settlement takes place as shall be found consistent with the just and equitable claims of America, and the honour, the safety, and true interest of Great Britain; and for this purpose we pray that God may bless your Majesty’s counsels with wisdom, grant success to your arms, restore peace and brotherly love to all your subjects, and spare you Majesty long, very long, to reign with glory over a happy, a free, and united people.

Signed in name and by appointment of the rest of the Magistrates and Town-Council, at Montrose, the 23d of September, 1775, by

ALEXANDER CHRISTIE, Provosl.

By ARCHIBALD COCKBURN, Esq., of COCKPEN, Advocate, His Majesty’s Sheriff Depute of the Sheriffdom of EDINBURGH:

Whereas a letter was received by me some time ago, from His Majesty’s Advocate for Scotland, intimating that, on account of the present rebellion in America, it was proper a stop should be put for the present to emigrations to that Country, and that the necessary directions were left at the different sea-ports in Scotland to that purpose; I think it my duty, in obedience to his Lordship’s requisition contained in that letter, to take this publick method of notifying to such of the inhabitants within my jurisdiction, if any such there be, who have formed resolutions to themselves of leaving this Country, and going in quest of settlements in America, that they ought not to put themselves to the unnecessary trouble and expense of preparing for a removal of their habitations, which they will not, so far as it lies in my power to prevent, be permitted to effectuate

ARCHIBALD COCKBURN.

September 23, 1775.

Williamsburgh, September 23, 1775.

Thursday last, arrived here Patrick Henry, Esq., Commander-in-Chief of the Virginia Forces. He was met and escorted to Town by the whole body of Volunteers, who paid him every mark of respect and distinction in their power, in testimony of their approbation of so worthy a gentleman to the appointment of that important trust which the Convention has been pleased to repose in him.

Baltimore, September 26, 1775.

On Saturday, the 23d of this instant, the polls for electing a Committee of Observation for this County were closed, when the following gentlemen were declared elected: John Moale, Jeremiah T. Chase, James Calhone, Benjamin Nicholson, Andrew Buchannan, Thomas Sollars, John Craddock, James Gittings, Robert Alexander, Samuel Purviance, William Wilkinson, Charles Ridgley, (son of William,) Walter Tolly, Jun., Darby Lux, John Cookey, William Smith, William Buchannan, William Lux, John Boyd, John Ridgley, Thomas Harrison, Benjamin Griffith, William Randall, Thomas Gist, Sen., Stephen Cromwell, Isaac Gist, Thomas C. Dye, Mordecai Gist. John Stephenson, Ezekiel Towson, Jeremiah Johnson, William Asquith, John Howard, George Risteau, Abraham Britton.

And casting up the ballot, the following gentlemen were declared Delegates to the Convention for one year, viz: Robert Alexander, Benjamin Nicholson, John Moale, Walter Tolly, Jun., Jeremiah Townley Chase.

ADAM STEPHEN TO RICHARD HENRY LEE.

Pittsburgh, September 23, 1775.

SIR: Since my last, we have received advices from the Wyandots, a sensible nation, who live near to Detroit, and have great influence on the contiguous tribes of Indians. It may be plainly seen that they are a great deal attached to the commanding officer at Detroit. Some of them have promised to come and hear what we have to say; that is their policy. They have very lately killed a trader’s