ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH AND PARISH OF SOUTHMOLTON.

Address of the Mayor, Capital Burgesses, Common Councilmen, and Town Clerk of the Borough and Parish of Southmolton, in the County of Devon, presented to His Majesty by Charles Warwick Bampfylde, Esq., one of the Representatives in Parliament for the City of Exeter.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Mayor, Capital Burgesses, Common Councilmen, and Town Clerk of the Borough and Parish of SOUTHMOLTON, in the County of DEVON.

May it please your Majesty:

At a time when one part of your Majesty’s Dominions is in actual rebellion, which, there is too much cause to think, hath been excited and fomented by ill-disposed people in another part of them, silence in any man or body of men, who profess themselves well affected to your Majesty and the Constitution, would betray a justly and reprehensible inattention in a matter of so great importance,

Permit, therefore, most gracious Sovereign, your Majesty’s most faithful and dutiful subjects, the Mayor, Capital Burgesses, Common Councilmen, and Town Clerk of your Borough and Parish of Southmolton in the County of Devon, to join the rest of your Majesty’s loyal subjects in expressing our warmest zeal and attachment to your Majesty’s person and Government, to testify in the best manner we at present can, our sense of, and gratitude for, the many blessings we derive, under Divine Providence, from your Majesty; and to declare our utter disapprobation and abhorrence of those principles which at first occasioned and have since promoted those troubles and disturbances which now prevail in America.

We most heartily wish that this deluded people may soon see their errour, and return to their duty. Should they, however, still persist in their obstinacy and disobedience, we entirely confide in your Majesty’s wisdom and goodness, for taking such measures as will effectually secure obedience to the supreme authority in arid from all parts of your Majesty’s Dominions.

And we beg leave to assure your Majesty that we will cheerfully contribute every thing in our power towards the maintenance and support of that authority, as far as our influence extends. And we will use our utmost efforts to discourage and prevent any tendency to disaffection or disregard for your Majesty’s and our valuable Constitution; and upon all occasions endeavour to approve ourselves your Majesty’s most faithful, dutiful, and loyal subjects.

Given under our common seal, at the Guildhall of the said Borough and Parish, this tenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

Signed by order, and with the concurrence of

JOHN STARLAND, Town Clerk.

NEW-YORK COMMITTEE.

Friday, November 10, 1775.

The Committee met. Present: John Broome, Chairman, and thirty-five Members.

The Sub-Committee appointed to superintend the Election for Deputies to represent the City and County of New-York in Provincial Congress for the Colony of New-York, delivered in their Report; which, being read, was unanimously approved of, and is as follows, viz:

Pursuant to an order of the General Committee, we, the subscribers, superintended the Poll taken this day at the City Hall, for the election of Deputies to represent this City and County in the ensuing Provincial Congress; and do hereby certify, that the following twenty-one Gentlemen were chosen by a great majority, viz:

Peter V, B, Livingston,	Jacobus Van Zandt,
Cornzelius Clopper,	John Morton,
Alexander McDougall,	Isaac Sears,
Joseph Hallet,	John Ray,
Thomas Smith,	Theodorus Van Wyck,
Abraham Brasher,	Anthony Rutgers,
Isaac Roosevelt,	John Imlay,
James Beckman,	Gabriel W. Ludlow,
Benjamin Kissam,	Benjamin Helme,
John M. Scott,	Comfort Sands.
John Van Cortlandt,

And we do further certify, that the electors, at the same time, did constitute any seven of the forementioned persons to be a quorum.

New-York, November 7, 1775.

Ordered, That the Chairman of this Committee deliver a certified copy of the aforegoing Report to one of the Deputies chosen to represent this City and County in the ensuing Provincial Congress.

Joseph Mount, master of the Sloop Wanton, attending at the door, was called in, and informed this Committee that he was bound to sea in the said Sloop, and applied for leave to take on board Stores and Provisions for a captain, mate, seven seamen, a boy, and one passenger, for eighteen months, agreeable to the following estimation, viz: fifty-six barrels of Beef and Pork, eighteen and a half tierces Bread, eighteen barrels Flour, ten barrels Peas, thirty dozen Poultry, twenty bushels Corn, fifteen small Pigs, ten barrels Potatoes, ten barrels Apples, thirty-five hogsheads Water, one quarter-cask Wine, twenty dozen York Porter, two barrels Rum, and small Stores.

The Committee having taken the said application into consideration, are of opinion, that the request of Joseph Mount is unreasonable; and, therefore,

Resolved, That the said Joseph Mount be not permitted to take on board any more than the following Stores and Provisions, viz: Bread, one thousand and eighty pounds; Beef and Pork, ten barrels; Flour, two barrels; Peas, one barrel; Poultry, four dozen: Corn, six bushels; three Hogs; Potatoes, two barrels; Apples, two barrels; Water, two hogsheads; Wine, six dozen; Porter, six dozen; Rum, one barrel.

Ordered, That Captain Mount apply to Messrs. Ray and Bancker, the Sub-Committee appointed to give a permission to Masters of Vessels relative to Stores and Provisions.

Messrs. Dennis, Lott, and Burling, the Sub-Committee appointed to inquire into the conduct of Thomas Pratt, relative to his having made some imprudent expressions of his determination to set fire to this City, if Troops should arrive, reported, that they had waited on Mr. Jarvis, one of Mr. French’s evidences against Mr. Pratt, who gave them such information as convinced them that Mr. Pratt had no intention wantonly or maliciously to set fire to or destroy the houses or property of any of the Inhabitants of this City.

Thereupon, Ordered, That the complaint of Mr. French, against Mr. Pratt, be dismissed.

The Sub-Committee appointed by the General Committee to consider of a mode for employing the Industrious Poor of this City, and promoting American Manufactures, report the following plan, already adopted by one of our neighbouring Colonies, as the most eligible, and with some small alteration the best adapted to answer the purpose of their appointment, subject to such alteration as shall be thought necessary at a general meeting of the subscribers:

We, the subscribers, being deeply impressed with a sense of our present difficulties, and earnestly solicitous, as far as in our power, to support the freedom and promote the welfare of our Country, on peaceable and constitutional principles, and well knowing how much the establishing Manufactories amongst ourselves would contribute thereto, besides exciting a general and laudable spirit of industry among the poor, and putting the means of supporting themselves into the hands of many who at present are a publick expense; and also to convince the publick that our Country is not unfavourable to the establishing Manufactures, do agree to form ourselves into a Company for the promoting American Manufactories, on the following principles, subject to such rules and regulations as shall be hereafter agreed on.

I. That the Society shall be called, The New-York Society for employing the Industrious Poor, and Promoting Manufactory.

II. That the Company shall continue for three whole years, commencing on the day of the first general meeting of the subscribers.