1775. |
Oct.11, |
Committee to provide for the Prisoners of War
in Hartford,
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1021 |
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Governour Trumbull requested to write to the Congress, and state the several matters relative to the Prisoners of War in the Colony, |
1023 |
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Committee appointed to repair to New-Canaan, and examine the quality and state of the Lead Mines there, |
1023 |
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Benjamin Stiles, of Woodbury, required to appear before the Assembly at its next session, and answer to the charges against him, of having spoken contemptuously of the Delegates of this Colony, and of the measures of the Continental Congress, |
1024 |
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John R. Marshall, of Woodbury, cited to appear and answer to the charge against him, of having spoken contemptuously of the doings of this Assembly, |
1024 |
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Daniel Gray, of Stamford, and Stephen Thorp, of Fairfield, each permitted to load a Sloop with Rye and Indian Corn for the Inhabitants of Falmouth, Machias, and Sheepscut, |
1025 |
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Leonard Dusau permitted to load his Vessel with Lumber, for the West-Indies, on condition that he shall procure and return unto this Continent such Military Stores as he can obtain, that may be useful and necessary, |
1025 |
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Persons nominated to stand for election in May next, |
1026 |
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All private business of a disputable nature referred over to the next session of the Assembly, in May next, |
1026 |
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Association to be signed by all the male persons, inhabitants of the Colony, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, referred to the next session, |
1027 |
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Resolve to prevent the going at large of persons who may be dangerous to the safety of the Colony, or the liberties of America, referred to the next session, |
1028 |
CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC.
Oct. 12, |
Address of the Magistrates, &c., of the Port and Town of Leith, to the King. If our deluded fellow-subjects in America continue in their unnatural and unprovoked Rebellion, with our fortunes and with our lives we will assert the supremacy of our King and Parliament over every part of the British Empire, |
1028 |
12, |
Address of the Gentlemen, &c., of Bradford, Trowbridge, and Melksham, in the County of Wilts, to the King. They testify their sincere abhorrence of the rebellious spirit which has appeared in America, |
1029 |
12, |
Address of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, in General Session assembled, to the King. They seek in vain for the motives of that unnatural Rebellion in North-America, into which the inhabitants of some of the Provinces, by the artifices of a disappointed and impotent faction, have been precipitated, |
1030 |
12, |
Address of John Hunter Holt to the Publick. He has some expectation of procuring printing materials in place of those taken from his office by Lord Dunmore, and of being able to continue his Paper, |
1031 |
12, |
Letter from Thomas Robinson, of Delaware, denying the charge against him of being unfriendly to his Country, |
1032 |
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Certificate of a Committee, declaring the charge against Thomas Robinson is altogether without foundation, |
1032 |
12, |
Letter from the Congress of New-York to General Washington, |
1032 |
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Information communicated by Captain William Thomson to the New-York Congress, October 10th, and enclosed in the preceding Letter to General Washington, |
1032 |
12, |
Letter from General Schuyler to Governour Trumbull, in reply to his Letter of the 29th of September, |
1033 |
12, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington. He is extremely apprehensive that a want of Powder will be fatal to their operations, |
1035 |
1775. |
Oct. 12, |
Letter from the Newport, Rhode-Island, Committee, to the New-York Committee, requesting them to permit a small supply of Flour to be shipped from New-York for the Inhabitants of Newport, who are in great distress, |
1036 |
12, |
Letter from Cambridge to a Gentleman in Connecticut. The malicious reports in circulation against our General Officers are ungenerous and unjust, and more likely than any thing else to effect the grand design of our enemies, |
1036 |
12, |
Letter from Colonel Reed to Captain Broughton, |
1037 |
12, |
Letter from Colonel Reed to Colonel Glover, |
1037 |
12, |
Letter from Gen. Washington to the President of Congress. Before he received the Letter from the Congress, of October 5, he had given orders for the equipment of some Armed Vessels; one of them was on a cruise; the others will be fit for sea in a few days, under the command of Officers of the Continental Army, |
1037 |
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Questions in writing, submitted on the 5th of October to the General Officers, which they are requested to consider, and be prepared to give their opinions upon in Council, on Monday next, |
1039 |
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Council of War, held at Head-Quarters on the 8th of October, on the Questions submitted by
General Washington on the 5th,
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1039 |
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Brigadier-General Gatess Opinion on the Queries of October 5th, |
1040 |
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Opinion of Brigadier-General Greene, in answer to the Queries of October 5th, |
1041 |
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Answer of General Sullivan on the Questions propounded by General Washington on the 5th of October, |
1043 |
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Account of the Men in Colonel Starks Regiment, who are willing to continue in the service during the winter, |
1044 |
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Estimate of the expense of the Commissary-Generals Department for an American Army, of twenty-two thousand five hundred men, from October 10, 1775, to May 10, 1776, |
1045 |
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Estimate by the Quartermaster-General for Barracks, |
1045 |
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Account of Cash expenditures by Colonel William Thompson, |
1045 |
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Instructions to Captain Broughton, dated September 2, 1775, |
1046 |
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Affidavit of William Cowley, in relation to a scheme between Lord Dunmore and Major Connolly, to distress the Southern Colonies, |
1047 |
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Orders by General Washington, from October 5, to October 11, |
1048 |
12, |
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to their Delegates in Congress, |
1050 |
13, |
Address of the Mayor, &c., of the Town of Southampton, to the King. Lament that their fellow-subjects in America, deluded by the arts of wicked and licentious men, have proceeded to acts of Rebellion against His Majesty, |
1050 |
13, |
Letter from the Provincial Congress of New-Jersey to the Continental Congress, requesting they may have the appointment of the Field-Officers in the Battalions proposed to be raised in the Province, |
1050 |
14, |
Letter from the Provincial Congress of New-Jersey to the Continental Congress. They are about to raise four thousand Minute-Men, to take the field on any emergency, and desire to know what provision has been made for such Minute-Men, if called into service, |
1051 |
13, |
Letter from the New-York Provincial Congress to the Continental Congress, enclosing Governour Trumbulls Letter of the 9th instant, |
1051 |
13, |
Letter from Governour Tryon to Whitehead Hicks, Mayor of New-York. Has been informed that the Continental Congress have recommended it to the Provincial Congress to seize the Officers of Government, and himself, by name, |
1052 |
14, |
Letter from the Mayor to Governour Tryon. The Members of the Corporation, and the Citizens generally, are averse to his leaving the City, |
1052 |
13, |
Letter from the New-York Committee to the Mayor. They are assured that the Provincial Congress have received no order or recommendation to seize the Governour, or any of the Officers of Government, |
1053 |
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