1775.
Dec. 6, |
Letter from Richard Henry Lee to General Washington: Has reason to believe the improvements on the Kenhawa have not been destroyed by the Indians, 201 |
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Letter from Edmund Pendleton to Richard Henry Lee: Movements of the Troops in Virginia; action at Kemp's Landing, 201 |
| 6, |
Memorial of John Bull, of Philadelphia, to the Congress, requesting authority may be given him to dispose of the Lands belonging to the Nanticokes, in Maryland, who are desirous of removing to live with the Six Nations, 202 |
| 6, |
Letter from Lord Stirling to the President of Congress, 202 |
| 6, |
Punishment of Thomas Randolph, of Quibble-town, Now-Jersey, for reviling and opposing the Continental and Provincial Congresses and Committees, 203 |
| 6, |
Declaration of the Inhabitants of Queen's County, New-York: The report that they are inimical to the American cause is void of truth; they wish to remain peaceable and quiet; have the means of protecting themselves, and will not submit to be disarmed, 203 |
| 6, |
Letter from Inhabitants of Putney, Cumberland County, New-York, to Colonel Williams and Paul Spooner, 429 |
| 6, |
Letter from an Officer in the Camp before Quebeck: The men are in high spirits; if Quebeck: does not surrender soon, it is the General's intention to carry the Town by storm, 204 |
| 6, |
Connecticut Council of Safety: Officers and Sailors of the Armed Vessel taken near St. John's ordered to be sent to the County of Litchfield, 205 |
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Captain Hunter and others. Prisoners sent to be quartered in Connecticut, allowed to reside in Wethersfield on their parole, 205 |
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Letter received from General Washington, informing that a number of the Connecticut Troops had deserted the service, 205 |
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Letter ordered to be sent in reply, expressing the resentment of the Council at the conduct of the Troops, 205 |
| 6, |
Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke, 205 |
| 6, |
Letter from Colonel Moylan to Timothy Pickering: It will give the General great pleasure to contribute to the particular safety of the Inhabitants of Salem, when he can do so consistent with his duty to defend the whole, 206 |
| 6, |
Letter from Stephen Moylan to Captain Bartlett, 206 |
| 6, |
Letter from James Sullivan to General Sullivan, communicating his Plan for raising men for the new Army, 206 |
| 6, |
Letter from General Folsom to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety: Is exerting himself to raise Troops to march immediately to the Camp, 207 |
| 7, |
Plan of Reconciliation with the Colonies offered in the House of Commons by Mr. Hartley, 207 |
| 7, |
Letter from William De Hart to Lord Stirling, 210 |
| 7, |
Letter from the Commissioners for Fortifications to the New-York Congress, 254 |
| 7, |
Letter from Albany Committee to Committee of the District of Kinderhook: Earnestly recommending to the District of Kinderhook that they will adopt measures to promote among them peace and harmony, 210 |
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Reply of the Kinderhook Committee in defence of the measures they have heretofore pursued, 211 |
| 7, |
Letter from Colonel Holmes to Captain Wynkoop, 212 |
| 7, |
Letter from Inhabitants of Westminster, Cumberland County, to Colonel Williams and Paul Spooner, 430 |
| 7, |
Recantation of Gideon Lownsbery, 212 |
| 7, |
Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington: The reprehensible conduct of some of the Troops of the Colony has excited grief, surprise, and indignation. Care will be taken to make examples of some of the ringleaders. The zeal and ardour of Connecticut in the common cause may be relied on, 213 |
| 7, |
Letter from the General Court of Massachusetts to General Washington, in reply to his Letter of the 5th instant to Mr. Otis: They are clearly of opinion that the words of the Resolve will not justify the construction suggested to his Excellency by General Heath, 191 |
1775.
Dec. 7, |
Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress: Broughton and Selman are returned without affecting any good purpose; Mr. Callback and two others, brought in Prisoners, have been discharged, 214 |
| 7, |
Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke, requesting him to send Captain Stanhope and the two Midshipmen to Northampton on parole, 214 |
| 7, |
Letter from General Washington to the Committee for Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, 214 |
| 7, |
Letter from Richard Derby to Stephen Moylan: The Committee at Salem have declined acting in the case of the Kingston Packet, but say there does not appear the least cause to detain the vessel, 214 |
| 7, |
Letter from John Pickering to Stephen Moylan: In such cases as that of the Kingston Packet, if Committees in different Towns give different judgments it will cause great difficulties; it should be determined by Judges whose jurisdiction is general, 215 |
| 7, |
Letter from Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant to the Massachusetts Council, 1236 |
| 7, |
Letter from John Waite to John Adams, with a statement of the losses he sustained when Falmouth was burnt by the Ministerial Troops and Navy, 215 |
| 8, |
Advices from the interior of South-Carolina: Action with Cunningham's party, 215 |
| 8, |
Letter from the President of Congress to Committee for Fredericktown, with the Thanks of Congress for their vigilance in seizing Cameron, Smith, and Connolly, 216 |
| 8, |
Letter from the President of Congress to the Governments of the several New-England Colonies: The Congress is alarmed at the want of publick spirit, and, backwardness in the Soldiers to reinlist, and the dreadful consequences that must ensue, should the lines be abandoned, and the General deserted, at a critical moment, 217 |
| 8, |
Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: General Schuyler has orders to forward what Cannon and Lead he can spare; the Congress are sensibly affected with his situation, regret the backwardness of the Troops to reinlist and have empowered him to call forth the New-England Militia in any emergency, 217 |
| 8, |
Letter from Thomas Lynch to General Washington, 218 |
| 8, |
Letter from the New-York Provincial Congress to President Hancock, 391 |
| 8, |
Letter from the Provincial Congress lo the New-York Delegates in Continental Congress, 392 |
| 8, |
Petition of John Marks to the New-York Congress for assistance in establishing the business of making Nails, which is much needed, 218 |
| 8, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress: The men are in want of suitable Clothing for the winter: He has not been able to settle the accounts with the Soldiers, from which the cause will suffer extremely; numbers that have gone home, have sworn that they will never re-engage in the service, 219 |
| 8, |
Letter from Abram Davenport to Governour Trumbull, asking permission for a Vessel to go to the West Indies with Provisions, and to bring back Military Stores, 220 |
| 8, |
Letter from General Washington to General Sullivan: The intention of yesterday's Order, respecting the Review of the Connecticut Troops, is only to afford a good opportunity of making choice of such of their Arms as may be found fit for the use of the new Army, 220 |
| 8, |
Letter from Robert H. Harrison lo General Thomas, 221 |
| 8, |
Letter from Colonel Moylan to the Salem Committee: The General cannot decide upon breaches of the Association; that comes under the cognizance of the Committees of Safety, 221 |
| 8, |
Letter from Stephen Moylan to Colonel Glover: The General desires he will put Captain Der- |