easier carrying an army and provisions, and would shorten the way much; and then you might have a post to pass once a week or ten days.

I think it would be for the general interest for you to have a copy of said plan, &c., and then you would be a judge of what would be best to be done. It hath been a great cost and labour to me to obtain those plans, &c., and make them. Sir, if you think it worth your notice, and will give orders therefor, I will copy one for you, and wait on you with it, and give you the best intelligence I can, as I think I know as much of this country as any one, as I have been travelling, surveying, and settling this part, ever since the year 1750. 1 would willingly go to lay out a road, and see it cleared, &c., and do every thing necessary, if agreeable, and orders therefor, and you, &c., should think it worth while.

But submitting all to your better judgment, I am, Sir, with all due respect, your most obedient, devoted, and very humble servant,

SAMUEL GOODWIN.

To his Excellency George Washington, Esq.

N. B. Mr. Reuben Colburn informed me you wanted a plan. I thus began it about three weeks before Colonel Arnold arrived, or 1 could not have got it ready for him.

Please to excuse the smallness of the paper, for there is a famine of it here.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO COMMITTEE OF PORTSMOUTH.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, October 17, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Application having been made to us for liberty of transporting necessaries of life to the inhabitants of the Isle of Shoals, we have thought best to refer all matters of that kind to your consideration and determination; more especially, as we conceive you must be much better acquainted with the circumstances and necessities of those people than we possibly can be. We think, whatever their conduct may have been, through the misfortune of their situation, they ought not to be precluded from the means of subsistence, and therefore recommend to you to grant permits to such persons as incline to supply them from your harbour; to do it in such manner and in such quantities as to you shall appear most safe and expedient.

COLONEL ARNOLD TO COLONEL ENOS.

DEAR SIR: I arrived here last night, late, and find Col. Greene’s division very short of provisions—the whole having only four barrels of flour and ten barrels of pork. I have therefore ordered Major Bigelow, and a Lieutenant and thirty-one men out of each Company, to return and meet your division, and bring up as much provision as you can spare, which is to be divided equally among the three; in particular, of flour. This will lighten the rear, and they will be able to make greater despatch, and will be no hinderance, as I shall keep the men here making up cartridges. I make no doubt you will hurry on as fast as possible.

I am, with esteem, dear Sir, your humble servant,

B. ARNOLD.

N. B. If you find your men much fatigued, and this party can bring on more of your provision than their share, let them have it; you shall have it again when you come up, and it will forward the whole. The carpenters of Colburn’s Company have more than they can bring up.

COLONEL ARNOLD TO MAJOR BIGELOW.

Dead River, October 17, 1775.

SIR: You are, as soon as possible, to go back until you meet Colonel Enos’s division, and take from him as much provision as he can spare, which you will return with as soon as you can. Leave your batteaus this side the carrying place, and one man to take care of the whole.

I am, Sir, your humble servant,

B. ARNOLD.

Major Bigelow.

ADDRESS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF HAVERFORD-WEST.

Address of the Mayor, Sheriff, Aldermen, Common Councilmen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Town and County of Haverford-West, presented to His Majesty by William Edwardes, Esq., their Representative in Parliament, and Sir Richard Phillips, Baronet, Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Plympton.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most loyal and dutiful subjects, the Mayor, Sheriff, Aldermen, Common Councilmen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Town and County of Haverford-West, equally uninfluenced by motives of servility or of faction, but actuated by a most loyal and affectionate regard as well for your Majesty’s sacred person as that mild Government from which we derive so many and so great advantages, humbly beg leave to address your Majesty on the present unhappy situation of affairs between Great Britain and her Colonies in America.

At the time, Sire, that we look up with gratitude to your Majesty for the enjoyment of such blessings, permit us to express our abhorrence of those traitorous measures which have been adopted in a distant part of your Dominions to dispossess us of them, by stirring up a most unnatural rebellion, upon pretences as vain and absurd in speculation, as the conduct to which they lead is nefarious and destructive in practice.

Anxious as we naturally are to prevent the effusion of the blood of our fellow-subjects, yet despairing of the efficacy of other than compulsive means to bring back this deluded people to a sense of their duty, we wish not that the sword of justice be sheathed till the constitutional sovereignty of this great Empire, over all its inferior dependencies, be permanently and effectually secured.

Let those wicked persons, who either from hence secretly abet, or in America openly support this destructive contest, be taught some truths, of which it is material that they and their misguided followers should no longer be ignorant.

Let them learn, Sire, from the voice of a free and an intelligent People, that real liberty is no less far removed from the barbarism and anarchy of licentiousness, than is loyalty to our Sovereign, and that excellent Constitution of which he is the guardian and protector, from the mean and servile compliances of baseness and adulation.

Let them learn, whilst they talk of their own boasted rights and immunities, to respect those of their Sovereign, and of that Country from whence they derive their existence, and which, from the infancy of their Colonies to their present vaunted state of maturity and greatness, has fostered, encouraged, and protected them, with a tenderness truly affectionate and parental.

But if, deaf to maxims perhaps ill-suited to the temper with which they have already treated this important subject, they still continue to pursue measures apparently tending to the temporary distress of one Country, and the utter and inevitable destruction of the other, let them learn, through such channels as these, (the most proper, in our humble opinions, for conveying the real sense of the rational majority of the inhabitants of Great Britain,) that their partisans in this Island are neither so numerous nor so powerful as that misguided people, by the arts of seditious and designing men, has been induced to believe; and that every sensible and unprejudiced man considers the present contest not (as is vainly pretended) as a struggle for power between your Majesty’s Ministers and the Colonies, but, as it really is, a contention between those Colonies for an unjust and unconstitutional independence on the Parent State, and that State asserting its inherent and indisputable rights of sovereignty over its inferior members.

Let them learn, that as their sophistry cannot deceive, so their menaces cannot terrify your Majesty or your Ministers into compliances injurious to the general interests of the Empire; or let them feel, that the uplifted arm of Britain is no less powerful to suppress and chastise the insolence of Rebels, than they, in their happier days of loyalty and affection to your Majesty’s Government, have experienced it effectual for their protection against foreign enemies.

Impressed with these sentiments, we beg leave to assure