1775. |
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Deputies appointed to represent the Province in Continental Congress, |
119 |
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A Convention to be held at Annapolis on the third Tuesday in March next or sooner if called by the Council of Safety, |
119 |
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Committee to revise the Proceedings of this Convention, and publish such of them as they may think proper, and convey a number to each County as soon as may be, |
119 |
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Convention dissolved, |
119 |
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CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC. |
August 14, |
Committee of Inspection and Committee of Correspondence for Kent County, Delaware, appointed, |
131 |
14, |
Philadelphia Committee declare that Messrs, Blackburn, Ashton, and John Dobson, of Liverpool, have violated the Continental Association, in shipping a cargo of Salt to America, |
133 |
14, |
Recantation of John Bergum, for having used sundry expressions derogatory to the liberty of the Country, |
133 |
14, |
Letter from the Committee for Ulster County to
the New-York Congress, |
134 |
14, |
Letter from General Wooster to Governour Trumbull: He has removed the Cattle from Plumb Island, and will to-morrow go to Gardners Island. James Lyon, a Church-of-England Clergyman, the main spring of all the Tories on the east end of Long-Island, has been arrested, |
134 |
14, |
Letter from General Schuyler to Governour
Trumbull, |
135 |
14, |
Letter from Colonel Hinman to Governour Trumbull. His Regiment is very sickly, and a great number unfit for duty; the Province of New-York abounds with officers, but he has not yet seen one private, |
135 |
14, |
Letter from Major Brown to Governour Trumbull, communicating information obtained by him in Canada, where he had been sent to get intelligence, |
135 |
14, |
Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull, The necessities of the Army are so great that all the Powder that can be spared should be forwarded immediately, |
137 |
14, |
Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke, on the expedition to Bermuda for Powder; approves of and recommends that it be undertaken immediately, |
137 |
14, |
Letter from Colonel Huntington to Governour
Trumbull, |
138 |
14, |
Letter from Colonel Joseph Reed to the Assembly of Massachusetts: In consequence of a Letter General Washington has received from General Gage, he has ordered the British Prisoners now at Watertown, with those at Cape Anne, to be confined in Northampton Jail, |
328 |
14, |
Publick notice requesting all Committees to make a return, under oath, to their respective Congresses and Conventions, of the names of those who may depreciate or refuse the circulating Paper Currency of any Colony, |
138 |
14, |
Letter from Stephen Peabody to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, accepting the appointment of Chaplain in the Army, |
138 |
15, |
New-York Committee: The Report of the Sub
Committee on the destroying the Barge built for the Asia man-of-war, referred to the Provincial Congress, |
139 |
15, |
Letter from William Duer to the New-York Congress. Has received his commission as Deputy-Adjutant General in the Continental Army, and requests to be allowed a few days to determine whether he can accept it, |
139 |
15, |
Letter from Captain Jacobus Wynkoop to the New-York Congress, |
140 |
15, |
Officers of the Second Battalion in Suffolk County, New-York, |
140 |
15, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the New-York
Congress, |
141 |
15, |
Association adopted by the Committee for Fairfield, Connecticut, and signed by eight hundred and fifty-five males, of the age of sixteen and upwards, |
142 |
1775. |
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Names of seventy who refused to sign the Association, |
142 |
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Letter from the Rev. John Sayre to the Committee for Fairfield, assigning his reasons for not signing the Association, |
143 |
August 15, |
Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler: In great want of Lead for the Army; does not expect any from the Southward, and has sent for some of the stock found at Ticonderoga when it fell into our hands, |
144 |
15, |
Confession of William Boltwood voted satisfactory by the Committee for Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, |
145 |
16, |
Committees chosen for the City of Philadelphia,
for the Northern Liberties, and for Southwark, |
145 |
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District Committees for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, |
146 |
16, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Secret Committee, Philadelphia, entreating them for a loan of a ton of Gunpowder, |
532 |
16, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Wooster: The Troops levied on Long-Island being required to march immediately to Ticonderoga. they request him to remain on Long-Island, |
432 |
16, |
Committee for Fairfield, Connecticut, declare any person an enemy to his Country who shall export any Flaxseed out of the Colony, until further advice from the Continental Congress, |
146 |
16, |
Letter from General Washington to the Council
of Massachusetts, |
147 |
16, |
Orders to the Officer commanding the detachment
of Riflemen sent to Cape Anne, |
147 |
17, |
Method of enlisting Recruits to serve against
America, by Major Roche, in Cork, Ireland, |
147 |
17, |
Letter from London to the Continental Congress:
Plans of the Ministry for carrying on the American War, |
148 |
17, |
Letter from the Committee of Safety for Pennsylvania to General Washington. Major French and other Officers, with a quantity of clothing for the Army in Boston, taken in a vessel from Cork, |
148 |
17, |
Letter from the Committee of Safety for Pennsylvania to Committee of Safety for New-York, |
149 |
17, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Schuyler. They leave to him the appointment of Field-Officers for the Green Mountain Boys, |
533 |
17, |
Letter from Isaac Stoutenburg and others to the
New-York Congress, |
149 |
17, |
Resolutions of the Committee for Westchester, in New-York, against buying or selling tea, horse racing, and all kinds of gambling, |
150 |
17, |
Resolution of the Committee for Mamacoting, Ulster County, New-York, relating to the hiring or purchasing of Arms, |
150 |
17, |
Letter from Colonel Huntington to Governour
Trumbull, |
151 |
17, |
Address of the Committee of Inspection for the
East Precinct of Pownalborough, Lincoln County, Massachusetts, giving a statement of facts proved against Abiel Wood, |
151 |
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Deposition of Ebenezer Whittier, taken June 9, 1775, |
152 |
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Address of Timothy Parsons to the Publick, on Abiel Woods case, |
153 |
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Address of Timothy Langdon to the Publick, on Abiel Woods case, |
155 |
18, |
Proclamation of the States General, prohibiting
the exportation of Gunpowder, or other munitions of war, to the English Colonies, for one year, |
156 |
18, |
Resolve of the Committee for Nansemond County, Virginia, that Messrs. Donaldson and Hamilton, merchants in the Town of Suffolk, have not violated the Association, |
157 |
18, |
Letter from Thomas Johnson, Jun, to Horatio Gates, giving a general view of the state of publick affairs, |
157 |
18, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committees at Philadelphia and Elizabethtown, informing them that an attack is expected, and requesting them to keep their Troops in readiness, |
536 |
18, |
Letter from, the New-York Congress to General Wooster, requesting him to return to his Camp at Harlem, with the utmost speed, |
536 |
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