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1775.      
Sept. 21,
Letter from Jedediah Huntington to Governour Trumbull. The Soldiers, in general, decline signing the Continental Articles of War, lest they should be detained thereby longer than the term of their first engagements,
771
21,
Letter from Governour Wentworth to Theodore Atkinson,
771
21,
Proclamation by Governour Wentworth, proroguing the meeting of the General Assembly of New-Hampshire, from the 28th of September, instant, to the 24th day of April next,
771
22,
Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the ancient Burgh of Irvine, to the King: They abhor the rebellious disposition of His Majesty’s American subjects, and have many brave sailors willing to assist His Majesty and the laws, in reducing the unnatural and unprovoked rebellion,
771
22,
Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and Traders of Liverpool, to the King; declaring their detestation of the open and daring contempt shown to the legal authority of the realm, by some of His Majesty’s deluded and rebellious subjects in America,
772
 
Note on the Addresses. The general sense of the People can by no means be inferred from them,
772
22,
Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to General Howe. There is the fullest evidence of an open and declared war, on the part of the twelve Associated Colonies, and they must be proceeded against with the utmost rigour, as the open and avowed enemies of the state,
773
22,
Powder and Arms secreted by Governour Martin, in the Palace Garden, at Newbern, discovered,
773
22,
Letter from William Maclay to Mr. Shippen, complaining of the intrusion of the Connecticut Settlers at Wyoming, in extending their Settlements southward into Pennsylvania,
773
22,
Officers of Minute-Men in Southeast Precinct, Dutchess County, New-York,
774
22,
Connecticut Committee of Safety,
774
23,
Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Montrose to the King. They regret the folly and condemn the obstinacy and ingratitude of the Colonies, and are much concerned that they are so deluded as to rise up in arms against the Mother Country,
775
23,
Notice by Archibald Cockburn, Sheriff Depute of the Sheriffdom of Edinburgh, that he will, as far as he can, prevent the removal of any persons from Scotland to America,
776
23,
Patrick Henry, Commander-in-Chief of the Virginia Forces, arrived at Williamsburgh,
776
23,
Committee of Observation appointed for Baltimore County, Maryland,
776
23,
Letter from Adam Stephen to Richard Henry Lee, informing him of the hostile movements of the Indians,
776
23,
Committee chosen by the Inhabitants of Great Neck, Cow Neck, &c., separate from the Township of Hempstead, Queen’s County, New-York,
777
23,
Letter from the New-York Committee of Safety to the Continental Congress. The insurmountable difficulty of procuring Arms the only reason that any of their Troops have been, delayed,
777
23,
Officers of the Minute-Men and Militia, in New-Windsor Precinct, Ulster County, New-York,
778
23,
Letter from General Wooster to the President of Congress. Will immediately proceed with his Troops to Albany, and wait there for the orders of General Schuyler,
778
23,
Letter from Joseph Trumbull to Eliphalet Dyer; informing him of the necessity there is for an immediate supply of money at the Camp,
778
23,
Letter from General Greene to General Sullivan,
779
23,
Letter from Major Bedel to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. Is encamped within a mile of St. John’s, and every thing prospers well,
779
23,
Letter from General Sullivan to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. The New-Hampshire Troops are suffering for their pay; all the other Colonies have paid theirs: this has caused much complaint, and if not attended to immediately will operate to the injury of the service,
779
1775.    
Sept. 23,
The Address from Halifax to the King was got up by a few persons, when most of the Representatives were absent, and has produced great indignation in the Province: Two tons of Tea, which arrived yesterday from Bristol, were committed to the sea, by the Liberty Boys,
780
 
Letter from General Montgomery to General Schuyler,
840
24,
Letter from General Gates to Dr, Church, urging him to remain in the service,
780
24,
Letter from Colonel Varnum to General Sullivan,
781
24,
Letter from Cambridge to a Gentleman in Philadelphia,
781
25,
Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Traders and principal Inhabitants of Coventry, to the King. They have observed with the deepest concern that the patrons of sedition have at length produced an actual rebellion among the unhappy Colonies in America; a rebellion the most atrocious, because altogether unprovoked,
781
25,
Address of the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Exeter, to the King. They behold with infinite concern the unhappy difference between England and the Colonies, where a most unjustifiable resistance hath been made to His Majesty’s arms,
782
25,
Address of the Magistrates and Council of the Burgh of Kirkcudbright to the King. They observe with concern and indignation the influence of the daring spirit of licentiousness upon His Majesty’s American subjects, now in a state of actual rebellion; a rebellion as wicked and flagitious as it is unprovoked and ungrateful,
783
25,
Address of the Justices of Middlesex to the King. They seek in vain for the motives of the unnatural rebellion in North-America, into which, not less by the artifices of a disappointed and impotent faction, than their own aversion to our religious and civil Constitution, they have been precipitated,
784
25,
Meeting of the Freeholders of Middlesex, at the Mile-End Assembly-Room, convened to consider the critical and alarming state of the country,
785
 
Instructions from the Freeholders of Middlesex to John Wilkes and John Glynn, Knights of the Shire for the County,
785
 
Letter from the Freeholders of Middlesex to the Freeholders of Great Britain,
787
 
Thanks to the Earl of Effingham, for having refused to draw his sword against his fellow-subjects,
788
25,
Letter from C. Shirreff to Major William Shirreff We have long been threatened to be visited by our Georgia neighbours, and it is now expected they will put their scheme into execution, and burn the Barracks and Town of St. Augustine,
788
25,
Letter from C. Shirreff to General Robertson. State of affairs in Florida,
788
 
Provisions in the King’s Stores at St. Augustine,
790
25,
Talk from the Hon. William Henry Drayton, one of the beloved men of South-Carolina, to the beloved men, Headmen and Warriors of the Cherokee Nation, at the Congarees,
790
 
List of the names and number of Towns; also, the number of Men in the Cherokee Nation, as furnished William Henry Drayton by R. Pearis,
793
25,
Sussex County (Virginia) Committee acquit Michael Blow of the charge against him of being inimical to the common cause of America,
794
25,
Chester County (Pennsylvania) Committee declare their abhorrence of the imputation that they are aiming at an independency. They ardently wish for a reconciliation, on constitutional principles, with Great Britain,
794
25,
The Packet Boat from Amboy to New-York taken by the Asia, man-of-war, and Capt. Tiley, an officer of General Wooster’s Regiment, detained a prisoner,
795
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