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1775.
Sept. 27,
Committee of Observation and Committee of Correspondence, elected by the Inhabitants of Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
823
27,
James Smith, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Dutchess County, New-York, tarred and feathered, for acting in open contempt of the Resolves of the County Committee,
823
27,
Letter from John N. Bleecker to the New-York Congress,
823
27,
Letter from Colonel James Livingston to General Montgomery. Sends him four men, who will engage to bring two or three pieces of Cannon down, the Rapids,
952
27,
Letter from Colonel Warner to General Montgomery. Colonel Allen has met with a defeat by a stronger force, which sallied out of Montreal after he had crossed the river, a mile below the Town. There were a number of Caughnawaga Indians in the battle against Allen,
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27,
Memorial of the Company of Foot, raised in the Town of Worcester, to the Assembly of Massachusetts, praying that the Tories, now coming; out of Boston, may not be permitted to return to Worcester,
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28,
Address of the Mayor, &c., of the Borough of Warwick, to the King. Artful, designing, and seditious men, both at home and abroad, have so far succeeded, under the cloak of mock patriotism, as to incite many of His Majesty’s American subjects to open rebellion; as Englishmen, they cannot refrain from declaring their abhorrence of the authors and abetters of such outrageous and traitorous proceedings,
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28,
Notice by the General Post-Office, London, that the regular Mails to America will hereafter be stopped,
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28,
Letter from Henry Wisner to John Haring,
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28,
Letter from General Wooster to General Washington,
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28,
Committee for Westchester County, New-York, direct that persons going to the Fort, now building in the Highlands, without a certificate of their being friends to the liberty of America, be arrested,
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28,
Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress. The Connecticut Troops have not been mustered. They made objections, which, though not satisfactory to the General, he was under a necessity of yielding to,
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28,
Letter from General Montgomery to General Schuyler. Allen, Warner, and Brown, have a project of making an attempt on Montreal. Carleton has certainly left there, and it is in a very defenceless situation,
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28,
Letter from General Montgomery to General Schuyler. He is just informed that Colonel Allen, who had crossed the river to Montreal, with thirty of our men and fifty Canadians, was attacked by a superior force and made prisoner,
952
28,
Letter from Major Bedel to General Montgomery. Our loss at Montreal was not great; some few slightly wounded,
954
28,
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to General Sullivan, in reply to his Letter of the 28d instant, complaining that the New-Hampshire Troops had not been paid,
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28,
Letter from Colonel Arnold, at Fort Western, to Nathaniel Tracy,
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29,
Letter from Colonel Arnold, at Fort Western, to Colonel Enos, directing him to forward the Companies left behind as fast as possible, to follow the route of the Army, and join at Chaudiere Pond,
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29,
Meeting of the Livery of London,
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Election of Lord Mayor,
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Letter from the Congress at Philadelphia, dated July 8, presented by the Lord Mayor and read,
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Ordered to be entered on the Records of the City,
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Address to the Electors of Great Britain,
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29,
Letter from Governour Tonyn to General Gage. Recommends to the attention of General Gage, Colonel Kirkland, whose account of matters in Carolina will be satisfactory to him,
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1775.
Sept. 29,
Letter from George Frederick Mulcaster to Gen. Grant, giving the general state of affairs in Florida, Georgia, and South-Carolina,
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29,
Proclamation by Governour Tryon, further proroguing the meeting of the Assembly of New-York to first day of November next,
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29,
Letter from the Committee for Westchester, New-York, to the Committee of Safety. They send for trial Godfrey Haines, a person who was accused and convicted before the Committee, of denying’ the authority and speaking contemptuously of the Congresses and the Committee of Westchester County,
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Deposition of Eunice Purdy, as to the expressions used by Godfrey Haines,
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29,
Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress,
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24,
Letter from General Montgomery to General Schuyler. The Caughnawagas have assured him that all the Western Indians and Six Nations are departed home. A quantity of store, designed for the Indians engaged against us by Carleton, has been taken by Major Brown. He will endeavour to have Deputies sent from Canada to the Congress, and recommends that a Committee of Congress be sent to the camp,
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24,
Letter from General Montgomery to General Schuyler. He has acquainted the Caughnawagas they may go to their hunting grounds, on the Lakes, whenever they please, and requests orders may be given that none molest them,
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29,
Letter from General Schuyler to the New-York Congress. General Montgomery is besieging St. John’s, but, from a deficiency in Artillery, the work goes on slowly. In great want of Powder. Several of the First New-York Regiment have deserted to the enemy; and Captain Motte, of the same corps, shamefully ran away from our Battery, when not one of the enemy was near him,
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29,
Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Schuyler. Doubts the correctness of the information on which Mr. Lynch, a Member of the Congress, and recently from Ticonderoga, founds his statements with regard to the Connecticut Troops. Has written to Colonel Hin-man for a true state of the facts,
841
29,
Letter from Governour Cooke to General Washington. The Packet sent out to countermand Captain Whipple’s voyage to Bermuda did not see him. It is probable he has pursued his voyage,
840
29,
Letter from General Washington to the Council of Massachusetts-Bay. Recommends to their attention an Oneida Chief, who is on a visit to the camp. His report to his Tribe, on his return, will have important consequences,
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29,
Petition of the Field-Officers of General Sullivan’s Brigade to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, for permission for the General to fill up vacancies in the New-Hampshire Forces,
842
29,
Letter from Colonel Arnold, at Fort Western, to Captain Farnsworth, directing him to forward, as fast as possible, Provisions, &c., to Fort Halifax,
843
30,
Address of the Provost, &c., of the City of Stirling, to the King. Sincerely regret that the peace of His Majesty’s Dominions has been disturbed by a part of their infatuated fellow, subjects in the Colonies,
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30,
Address of the Officers of the First Regiment of the Devonshire Militia to the King. None can hold in greater detestation than they do the unnatural behaviour of His Majesty’s American subjects; and they are as ready to suppress the internal enemies of Great Britain as their gallant countrymen have been in asserting the just rights of the British Empire in America,
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30,
Address of the Gentlemen, &c., of the Burgh of Great-Yarmouth, to the King. They lament the misery and abhor the conduct of their deluded fellow-subjects in parts of His Majesty's American Colonies, who have plunged themselves into open rebellion.
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