1775. |
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Sept. 15,
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Letter from Arthur St. Clair to Governour Penn. The Indians have not yet come in to make the treaty with the Commissioners; in the meantime a hundred men marched here from Winchester, and have taken possession of Fort Pitt,
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717
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15,
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Concession of Luke Raymond, and others, at Stamford, Connecticut, |
718
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15,
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Letter from Governour Cooke to General Washington, |
718
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15,
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Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington. His peremptory requisition is fully complied with; the new levies will soon be at the Camp, though other men must be raised for the security of New-London, Stonington, New-Haven, and Lyme, |
718
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16,
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Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York. The Ministry, impressed with the necessity of removing the Troops from Boston, after repeated councils to determine where they should be stationed, have referred it to the Commanding Officers in Boston: Emissaries are busy throughout the Kingdom in procuring signers to Addresses to the King, praying him to proceed in cutting the throats of his American subjects, |
719
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16,
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Articles of Neutrality agreed upon and signed, at the Camp near Ninety-Six, by William Henry Drayton, Commissioner appointed by the Council of Safety of South-Carolina, and Col. Thomas Fletchall and others, Deputies from a number of the people living between Broad and Saluda Rivers, |
720
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17,
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Letter from William H. Drayton to the Council of Safety for South-Carolina, recommending them to make hostages of the Governour and the Officers: to do this is not more dangerous than what has been done, and our situation is utterly precarious while he is at liberty, |
721
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16,
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Letter from the Committee for Elizabeth City County and Town of Hampton, Virginia, to Capt. Squire, in reply to his Letter of the 10th instant. Upon his delivering up all the Slaves on board his vessel to their owners, and the property he has seized, they will restore the vessel he claims, |
722
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Thanks of the Committee to Major Innes for his prompt march to their assistance, on the alarm occasioned by the threats in the insolent Letters of a certain Matthew Squire, Commander of His Majestys Ship the Otter,
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723
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16,
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Officers of a Minute Company in Cornwall, Orange County, New-York, |
723
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16,
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Letter from an Officer at Isle-aux-Noix to a Gentleman in New-York. Movements of the Army since the 2d instant, |
723
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17,
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Letter from John Wetherhead to the New-York Committee of Safety, denying the charges against him, that he had informed Captain Vandeput of the intention to remove the Guns from the Battery on the 23d of August, and of purchasing Provisions to be sent to Boston, |
724
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17,
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Letter from John Wetherhead to the New-York Committee of Safety, denying the charges against him, that he had informed Captain Vandeput of the intention to remove the Guns from the Battery on the 23d of August, and of purchasing Provisions to be sent to Boston, |
724
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17,
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Letter to a Gentleman in New-York from an Officer at Isle-aux-Noix. The Army will move for St. Johns to-morrow. The Savages appear barbarous to the last degree; they dug up our dead, and mangled them in the most shocking manner, |
726
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17,
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Letter from Quebeck. The accounts are that the Continental Troops are laying siege to St. Johns. Persons here are employed in collecting Canadians to take up arms, but they have met with little or no success, |
726
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18,
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New-Castle (Delaware) Committee reject the Petition of Charles McKenzie to load for a foreign Port, |
726
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18,
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Intelligence received by the Congress of the operations of the Army under General Schuyler, |
727
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18,
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Letter from Quebeck to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. The British and Canadian Militia here consist of about eleven hundred men; the greater part dissatisfied with the conduct of Government, |
728
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18,
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Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke. Captain Whipples expedition to Bermuda for Powder may be suspended. The voyage to Bayonne is approved and recommended, |
728
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18,
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Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke. Captain Whipples expedition to Bermuda for Powder may be suspended. The voyage to Bayonne is approved and recommended, |
728
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1775. |
Sept. 18,
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Committees of several Towns, convened at Bellingham, Massachusetts, declare Captain Edward Clarke, of Rutland, for purchasing and selling Tea, contrary to the Association, is an enemy to American Liberty, and ought to be treated as such,
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729
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19,
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Address of the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, to the King, declaring their abhorrence of the unnatural rebellion which prevails in some of His Majestys Colonies in North-America, |
729
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19,
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Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and principal Inhabitants of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, to the King, expressing the hope that His Majestys wise and resolute proceedings against his rebellious subjects in America will bring them to a sense of their duty and submission to the laws of their Mother Country, |
730
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19,
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Address of the Guild or Brotherhood of Masters and Pilots, Seamen of the Trinity-House of Kingston-upon-Hull, to the King, assuring His Majesty that, as Jar as they are able, they will assist him in bringing the unhappy and deluded People of the Colonies, now in open rebellion, to a sense of their allegiance, |
730
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19,
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Resolutions of the Philadelphia Committee, declaring that no person or persons ought to inflict punishment on any one on a suspicion of violating the Continental Association; and that no one has a right to the protection of a community or society he wishes to destroy, |
731
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19,
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Letter from the New-York Committee of Safety, to the Continental Congress, requesting commissions for the Officers, |
732
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19,
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Letter from the New-York Committee of Safety to the Continental Congress, enclosing plans and estimates for the Fortifications in the Highlands, and their Correspondence with General Wooster, who declines sending any of his Troops to assist in erecting the Fortifications, |
732
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Mr. Romanss estimates of the expense of erecting the Fortifications,
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733
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Report of Mr. Romans to the Committee of Safety of New-York, with Plans and Descriptions of the Fortifications,
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735
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Plan of Hudson River, from Cooks bland to Butter-Hill,
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736
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Plan of the Works already erected and to be erected near Martelaers Rock,
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736
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Plans marked No. 1 and No. 2,
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736
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Plan marked No. 3,
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736
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Resolution of the Committee of Safety, September 13, directing General Wooster to send a full Company of the Troops under his command to assist in erecting the Fortifications in the Highlands,
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734
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Letter from General Wooster to the Committee of Safety, September 15. Cannot disperse his Troops without the order of General Washington, or the Continental Congress,
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734
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Letter from the Committee of Safety to General Wooster, September 16, enclosing the order of the Continental Congress,
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735
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Resolution of Congress of June 16, 1775, placing the Connecticut Troops under the direction of the New-York Provincial Congress,
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734
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Letter from General Wooster to the Committee of Safety, September 17. No Provincial Congress can interfere in the disposition of the Continental Troops, much less control the orders of any General Officer. He will with alacrity obey any lawful summons,
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735
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19,
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New-York Committee: Recommend to the Friends in this City to raise a contribution for the support of the Poor, |
736
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Persons recommended to be added to the Committee,
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736
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19,
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Letter from Guert Spt. De Wint to the New-York Committee of Safety, |
736
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19,
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Letter from Thomas Hazard to the New-York Committee of Safety, with nominations of Field-Officers for the Second Independent Battalion of New-York, |
737
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19,
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Letter from the Tryon County Committee to the New-York Congress, with a Return of Officers for the Battalions in Tryon County, |
737
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