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1776.
Mar .12,
Letter from New-York Congress to the Continental Congress: Captain Parker, of the British Ship Phenix, is fitting out Vessels to intercept the trade between the Capes of Delaware and Sandy-Hook,
192
12,
Letter from Samuel Gale to John McKesson: Complains that he is held in confinement; will sue out a habeas corpus to know by what authority he is detained,
192
12,
Letter from Colonel Lent to the New-York Congress: The Companies under his command are ready for service at a moment’s warning,
194
12,
Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress: It is reported that Sir John Johnson is exciting the Indians against us; before he removes him from Tryon County, he will wait for the opinion of Congress, if he can do so with safety,
194
Deposition of Asa Chadwick, that Sir John Johnson told him he had sent for the Indians, and they would be down in six weeks,
195
Affidavit of Asa Chadwick, referred to General Schuyler by the Albany Committee: Sir John Johnson lives out of the County, and is under parole to the General,
195
12,
Letter from the Rev. Mr. Kirkland to General Schuyler,
772
12,
Letter from General Schuyler to Sir John Johnson: Encloses him a copy of Chadwick’s Deposition. It will be inquired into on the 18th instant; when Sir John is invited to be present,
195
12,
Letter from Winthrop Sargent to General Washington: A prize taken by Manly has been run ashore on the Rocks near Gloucester,
196
12,
Letter from Meshech Weare to General Washington: The stock of Powder in New-Hampshire does not exceed ten barrels, and he is under the necessity of asking a return of the supply made last summer for the Continental service,
196
13,
Address of the Mayor, &c, of the City of Cork, in Ireland, to the King: Declare their abhorrence of the unnatural rebellion now carrying on in North-America, by many of his Majesty’s deluded subjects; and engage their lives and fortunes to support his Majesty against the Insurgents,
196
13,
Letter from the Committee of Chestertown to the Maryland Council of Safety: They are destitute of Arms, most of all the small stock of good Arms are supplied to Minute Company, now on duty in Virginia,
197
13,
Letter from Captain Fauntleroy to Maryland Council of Safety,
198
13,
Letter from Baltimore Committee to Maryland Council of Safety: From an examination of the Batteries made and making at Whetstone and Fell’s Point, it is believed that Baltimore may be secured against the Otter, or any other Frigate that can come up the river,
198
13,
Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Harford County Committee,
199
13,
Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Virginia Committee of Safety: Enclosing a Narrative of the transactions of the Otter sloop-of-war,
199
13,
Letter from Richard Henry Lee to General Washington: General Clinton has left Virginia for the Carolinas: General Lee is at Philadelphia on his way to the southward,
199
13,
Letter from William Hooper to Samuel Johnston: Commissioners have sailed from England, to treat with Assemblies, &c., in America: Heaven grant that America may have virtue to resist their lures,
200
13,
Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Assembly of Pennsylvania: Submitting the expediency of fixing reasonable rates to be paid by all the American Troops passing through the Province,
683
13,
Letter from Joseph Trumbull to William Hooper,
200
13,
Mementoes for the Americans,
201
1776.
Mar. 13,
Letter from Lord Stirling to the Committees of Essex, &c., New-Jersey, requesting men may be sent to assist in fortifying and defending New-York; the King’s Army at Boston has actually embarked,
202
13,
Letter from Lord Stirling to President of Congress: Intelligence of the departure of the British from Boston, and the probability of their coming to New-York, has just been received; all the inhabitants, and every person in town, will be employed in assisting at the works for its defence,
202
13,
Return of the Troops at New-York, under the command of Lord Stirling,
203
13,
Letter from Colonel Allen to the President of Congress; enclosing Lord Stirling’s orders to him to proceed to New-York with all the Second Pennsylvania Battalion not yet embarked for Albany. It is his business to obey orders, not to judge of the propriety of them,
204
13,
Letter from Peter T. Curtenius to the New-York Congress,
204
13,
Letter from General Wooster to General Schuyler: From the movements among the Indians and Canadians, it is likely a descent will be made on Montreal; there are very few men to spare for the Garrison, for there has not yet arrived from the Colonies fifteen hundred men,
417
13,
Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress: Operations of the Army since his last letter,
204
13,
Council of General Officers at General Ward’s Quarters, Roxbury,
206
General Orders from March 9 to March 13,
207
13,
Statement of Peter Edes of the cruelties and indignities he suffered from the British,
168
13,
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to Colonel Bedel: His Regiment is on the Continental establishment, and all supplies for the Army are furnished by the Continental Congress,
208
13,
Regulations for the issue of Copper Coin by the New-Hampshire Assembly,
209
14,
Letter from Captain Barkley and Major Grant to Anthony Stokes: they are surprised to find he and others should be confined by the rulers of the people at Savannah, and authorize him to assure the people, or their leaders, that on the enlargement of the friends of the King, the three Americans in their possession will be released,
602
14,
Officers of the Royal Highland Regiment, which has been raised under every disadvantage, in an enemy’s country, the seat of war, and attended with great trouble, risk, and expense to Colonel Maclean and the other officers,
209
14,
Letter from Joseph Sim to Maryland Council of Safety,
209
14,
Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Daniel Bowly: All the Powder and small Arms obtained in Philadelphia must be forwarded to Baltimore in the safest and most expeditious manner,
210
14,
Tiberius to Cato: In defence of the Philadelphia Committee,
210
14,
Plain Hints: On the connexion between the Colonies and Great Britain. The Colonies are not bound by duty or gratitude to continue it,
211
14,
Report of Committee of Continental Congress, appointed to confer with General Lee,
213
14,
Letter from the President of Congress to Colonels Shea, Magaw, Irvine, and Dayton: Each is required to march his Battalion to New-York immediately,
215
14,
Letter from Lewis Ogden to Lord Stirling: A detachment from Essex County, New-Jersey, will march for New-York to-morrow,
215
14,
Letter from Elizabethtown, New-Jersey, Committee, to Lord Stirling: They have no right to send a detachment out of the Province,
216
14,
Letter from Colonel Dayton to Lord Stirling: Will use his utmost exertions to put his Regiment in the best order for marching; the scarcity of Arms in New-Jersey will retard him,
216

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