1776. |
Apr. 10, | Petition of William Hamilton to the Council of Safety of Maryland, | 838 |
10, | Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Queen Annes County, sending the Association Papers, which they are requested to return, | 838 |
10, | Letter from Colonel Haslett to the President of Congress; with an account of an engagement between a Detachment of the Delaware Battalion and a Tender of the Roebuck, | 838 |
10, | Cato to the People of Pennsylvania: Letter VI, | 839 |
10, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Putnam: Sends two hundred thousand Dollars more for the Troops at New-York, | 843 |
10, | Letter from the President of Congress to the New-York Convention: The British Ministry, persisting in their schemes of reducing the American Colonies to slavery, have passed an act to seize and confiscate our property wherever found on the high seas; the Congress have, therefore, directed the fitting out of Letters of Marque and Reprisal, | 843 |
10, | Letter from Adrian Bancker to the New-York Committee of Safety, | 844 |
| Return of Officers of the Militia of Richmond County, | 844 |
10, | Letter from Samuel Buell to New-York Committee of Safety: The east end of Long-Island is much exposed to ravages and plundering; a Regiment or two should be sent there, | 844 |
10, | Letter from Captain Hulbert to John McKesson, | 845 |
10, | Letter from John Landon to New-York Committee of Safety: Has made an examination of some Lead-Mines, in company with McDonald, | 845 |
10, | Letter from Colonel Nicoll to John McKesson, | 845 |
10, | Letter from General Wooster to the President of Congress: The situation of the Army before Quebeck is very disagreeable; with two or three thousand mouths to fill, there are not more than half that number of men to do duty, and many of these expect to leave on the l5th instant: The Powder and Artillery stores are so trifling that little can be effected, | 846 |
10, | Letter from Captain Nicholson: Account of the attack on New-Providence, | 846 |
11, | Letter from George Dashiell to Maryland Council of Safety, | 848 |
11, | Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Hindman: Arms and Ammunition will be sent to Chestertown to-morrow, | 848 |
11, | Letter from John Gibson to the President of Congress, | 848 |
11, | Letter from the Committee for Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to the President of Congress: Moneys due for the support of British Officers, prisoners, sent there by the Congress, | 848 |
11, | Commission for a Privateer to capture Vessels belonging to the inhabitants of Great Britain, | 850 |
11, | Cato to the People of Pennsylvania: Letter VII, | 850 |
11, | Lucas Gibbs, of Gloucester County, New-Jersey, convicted of refusing to receive Continental Bills, published as an enemy to his country, and precluded from all trade or intercourse with the inhabitants of the Colonies, | 853 |
11, | An Address to the Inhabitants of New-York, advising an open assertion of Independence, with manly boldness, | 854 |
11, | Letter from Captain Billings to the New-York Committee of Safety, | 856 |
11, | Letter from the Albany Committee to Colonel Curtenius: Supplies for the Army, | 857 |
11, | Letter from Colonel Saltonstall to Governour Trumbull, | 857 |
11, | British Ship Scarborough driven from the Harbour of Newport, Rhode-Island, | 857 |
11, | Letter from General Washington to Captain McKay: Different treatment of Prisoners by the Americans and the British, | 858 |
11, | Letter from General Ward to General Washington, | 858 |
1776. |
Apr. 11, | Letter from Dr. Morgan to a Committee of the Massachusetts Assembly: Regrets that the Resolves of the Assembly are opposed to the instructions he has received from the Commander-in-Chief, | 859 |
12, | Resolutions of Provincial Congress of North-Carolina, instructing their Delegates in the Continental Congress to concur with the Delegates from the other Colonies, in declaring Independency, | 859 |
12, | Letter to Alexander Purdie, on the necessity of declaring Independence, | 860 |
12, | Letter from Petersburgh, Virginia: The inhabitants are warm for Independence, | 862 |
12, | Letter from General Lee to Richard Henry Lee: His preparations for defending the Towns and Rivers of Virginia, | 863 |
12, | Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Richard Harrison, | 864 |
12, | Letter from the Maryland Delegates in Congress to the Council of Safety, | 864 |
12, | Letter from the President of Congress to the Assemblies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, and Connecticut, and the Convention of Virginia, | 864 |
12, | Letter from William Whipple to Meshech Weare, with the Resolutions of Congress authorizing reprisals, | 865 |
12, | Letter from Lord Stirling to New-York Committee of Safety: He has General Putnams order to march with a Brigade of Troops for Staten-Island; and requests the Richmond County Committee may give notice to the inhabitants, that the Troops may be received in the manner most convenient to themselves, | 1439 |
12, | Letter from Samuel Gale to John McKesson, complaining of his imprisonment, | 865 |
12, | Parole of the Prisoners taken by Commodore Hopkins, at New-Providence, | 867 |
12, | Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress, enclosing sundry papers, | 868 |
| Letter from General Wooster to General Schuyler: Apprehends mischief from the Inhabitants, Traders, and Savages, at Detroit, | 868 |
| Letter from Gershom Mott to Captain Goforth, | 869 |
| Letter from Colonel Hazen to General Schuyler, | 869 |
| Letter from John Brogden to Captain Goforth, | 870 |
12, | Letter from General Schuyler to Gen. Thompson, | 871 |
12, | Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: The intelligence from Canada is so alarming that he repeats his request for a considerable body of Troops to be sent immediately, | 872 |
12, | Letter from General Ward to General Washington: The Paymaster-General has not money to pay the five Regiments at Boston, for the month of March, | 872 |
12, | Letter from General Ward to the President of Congress, repeating his request for leave to resign his command in the Army, | 872 |
12, | Letter from Colonel Knox to Colonel Burbeck, directing him to proceed to New-York immediately, by the most direct road, as expressly ordered by General Washington, | 872 |
12, | Letter from Colonel Burbeck to Colonel Knox: He cannot set out directly for New-York; the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts has provided so well for him that it would be ungenerous to quit their service, | 873 |
12, | Declaration by the Inhabitants of New-Hampshire, | 873 |
| Names of the Signers of the Declaration, and of those who refused to sign, in the several Towns of the Colony, | 873912 |
13, | Letter from Jack Thompson, at St. Eustatia, to S. Burling, New-York: The Merchants at New-York and other places should fit out Privateers; the British Admiral has given commissions, at Antigua and Dominica, to Vessels fitted out by the Merchants and Planters, to take all American Vessels they can meet with, | 913 |
13, | Letter from Edmund Randolph to Virginia Committee of Safety: Declines the office of Mustermaster, offered him by the Congress, | 914 |
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