1775. |
Sept. 2, |
Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull. Informs him, in confidence, that he is about to detach ten or twelve hundred men on an expedition into Canada, by way of Kennebeck River, |
632 |
2, |
Letter from General Washington to General Wooster. Cannot order the three Companies to remain on Long-Island, and wishes them to join General Schuyler. Approves of the decision of the New-York Congress in regard to this matter, and wishes he could extend his approbation equally to the whole line of their conduct, |
632 |
2, |
Instructions to Captain Nicholson Broughton to proceed on a cruise, in the Schooner Hannah, against Vessels in the service of the Ministerial Army, |
633 |
2, |
Orders to Nathaniel Tracy, directing him to engage as many Vessels as may be necessary for transporting a body of Troops, to be detached on a secret expedition, |
634 |
2, |
Letter from General Charles Lee to Richard Henry Lee, |
634 |
3, |
Letter from Dr. Zubly to the Earl of Dartmouth, |
634 |
3, |
Officers of five Companies of Militia, in the Precinct of Rhinebeck, Dutchess Country, New-York, |
639 |
3, |
Letter from Col. Joseph Reed to Major French, |
639 |
3, |
Letter from Colonel Joseph Reed to the Committee of Hartford, Connecticut, requesting them to take a new parole of Major French, |
639 |
3, |
Letter from Colonel Reed to Captain Wharton, requesting him to deliver Major French to Captain Webb, |
640 |
4, |
Proclamation by Governour Tryon, proroguing the Assembly of New-York, from September 6th to October 4th, |
640 |
4, |
New-York Committee appoint a Committee to purchase all the spare Arms in the City, for the use of the Colony, |
640 |
4, |
Vessel at New-York seized, for supplying Provisions for the British Army in Boston, |
640 |
4, |
Militia Officers chosen at Smithtown, Suffolk County, New-York, |
640 |
4, |
Officers of the Light-Horse in Brooklyn, Kings County, New-York, |
641 |
4, |
Officers for Southold and Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New-York, |
641 |
4, |
Norwalk (Connecticut) Committee prohibit the removal of persons to that Town who cannot produce satisfactory evidence that they are friends to the liberties of the Colonies, |
641 |
4, |
Letter from General Washington to the Council of Massachusetts-Bay, |
642 |
5, |
Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to General Howe. Advises the removal of the Troops from Boston to New-York, or some other place to the southward, |
642 |
5, |
Address of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of Lancaster, to the King, declaring their detestation and abhorrence of the authors and abetters of the violences committed by His Majestys misguided subjects in North-America, |
643 |
5, |
Concession of Thomas Anderson, before the Committee for Hanover County, Virginia, |
644 |
5, |
Letter from Baltimore, in Maryland. The Town is in confusion, in consequence of the Committee there granting indulgence to Mr. Hudson to take in a Cargo after the 10th of September. Twelve hundred men are ready to come from the forest to prevent her loading, |
644 |
5, |
Philadelphia Committee recommend to the Inhabitants to refrain from wasting Powder, more particularly in shooting game, |
644 |
5, |
Letter from Augustus Van Cortlandt to the New-York Committee of Safety, on the preservation of the Publick Records, |
644 |
5, |
Officers of Militia chosen in Ameria, Dutchess County, New-York, |
645 |
5, |
Petition from sundry Inhabitants of the Manor of Fordham and West-Farms, Westchester County, to the New-York Congress, |
645 |
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Letter from a Company of Minute-Men in Jamaica, Queens County to the New-York Congress, |
646 |
1775. |
Sept.5, |
Letter from an Officer on board a British Transport at New-York to Mr. Cornell, informing him how he may convey to him some Letters and other things he wants, |
646 |
5, |
Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington. The Coasts are kept in continual alarm; three Ships of War, with thirteen other Vessels, were seen off Fishers Island, and in the Sound, yesterday, |
647 |
5, |
Address to the Inhabitants of Massachusetts, |
647 |
6, |
Proclamation by the King for the meeting of Parliament on Thursday, the 26th of October next, |
648 |
6, |
Letter to the Printer of the London Evening Post, on the Manchester Address, |
648 |
6, |
Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Manufacturers, and principal Inhabitants of the Town and neighbourhood of Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, to the King. They behold, with inexpressible concern, the standard of rebellion raised in some of the American Provinces, |
649 |
6, |
Letter from Peyton Randolph to General Washington, communicating to him the Thanks of the Virginia Convention for the faithful discharge of his duty as a Delegate to the Continental Congress, |
651 |
6, |
Letter from Samuel Bayard to the New-York Congress, on the preservation of the Publick Records in the Secretarys Office, |
652 |
6, |
Officers of the Militia for Charlotte Precinct, Dutchess County, New-York, |
653 |
6, |
Officers of a. Company of Foot in New-Marlborough, Ulster County, New-York, |
653 |
6, |
Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke. Proposes to him to seize the next Packet, which is hourly expected from England, |
653 |
6, |
Address of General Washington to the Inhabitants of the Island of Bermuda, to be communicated to them by Captain Whipple only in case of real necessity, |
654 |
6, |
Letter from Jedediah Huntington to Governour Trumbull, |
655 |
6, |
Letter from Major Gamble to General Gage. No prospect yet of the Militia being embodied here; General Carleton is afraid to give the order, lest they should refuse to obey. There will be no diversion this year from Canada in favour of the Army at Boston; the language here being only to defend the Province, |
962 |
6, |
Letter from Major Gamble to Maj. Shirreff. The Rebels have taken post at Point-au-Fer, and an invasion of Canada is expected. Should that take place, the Canadians will lay down their arms; their minds are all poisoned by emissaries from New-England, |
962 |
7, |
Vessels with Emigrants for America not permitted to have Clearances from any Port in Scotland, |
655 |
7, |
James City County, Virginia, request Mr. William Holt, merchant of Norfolk, not to supply the Men of War with any Bread or Flour, |
656 |
7, |
Letter from Charles Petit, Secretary to the Council of New-Jersey, to Lord Stirling, requesting, in the name of the Governour, to be informed of the truth of a publick report that he has accepted from the Provincial Congress a Commission as Colonel of a Regiment of Militia, |
656 |
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Letter from Lord Stirling to Governour Franklin: dated September 14, |
656 |
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Letter from Governour Franklin to Lord Stirling, September 15, |
657 |
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Letter from Lord Stirling to Governour Franklin. September 25, |
658 |
7, |
New-York Committee represent to the Committee of Safety the necessity of issuing a part of the Soldiers’ Pay, now in the publick service, to their Wives and Children, |
659 |
7, |
Letter from the Commissioners for Fortifications to the New-York Congress, |
659 |
7, |
Meeting of Committees at Smithtown; appoint Field-officers for the West Regiment of Suffolk County, New-York, |
660 |
7, |
Letter from the Tryon County Committee to the New-York Congress. Request information |
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