1776. |
Apr. 16, | Letters from Maryland Delegates in Congress to Council of Safety, | 953 |
16, | Letter from the President of Congress to the Baltimore Committee, | 953 |
16, | Letter from the President of Congress to the Maryland Council of Safety: The Congress have directed that the person and papers of Governour Eden be immediately seized, | 954 |
| Resolutions of Congress directing the seizure of Governour Eden and Alexander Ross, | 954 |
16, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Putnam, directing him to discharge the Militia of New-York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, now in pay of the Continent, | 954 |
16, | Letter from William Scudder to New-York Committee of Safety, | 955 |
| List of the men under the care of William Scudder, with the dates of their inlistment, | 955 |
16, | Letter from Governour Tryon to the Mayor of New-York: The Commander of His Majestys Ships-of-War have found it expedient for His Majestys service to burn down the Pilot-House at the Hook, | 955 |
16, | Letter from Committee for Richmond County to New-York Committee of Safety: They do not approve the arrest and conveyance of persons out of the County for trial, | 956 |
16, | Letter from Admiral Hopkins to Lieutenant Hinman, directing him to convey Cannon to Rhode-Island, | 956 |
16, | Letter from Major Bassett to the Massachusetts Council, with prisoners taken at Marthas Vineyard, | 956 |
16, | Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Assembly: Boston is not safe; the Harbour is open, and the Town may, and probably will be, cannonaded and carried by the enemy, if proper measures are not taken to defend it, | 957 |
| Sentiments relative to fortifying Boston Harbour, | 957 |
17, | Address of the Ministers and Elders of the Provincial Synod of Dumfries to the King: With hearts full of loyalty and affection, they express their abhorrence of the rebellion in the North-American Colonies, | 959 |
17, | Extract of a Letter from North-Carolina: The inhabitants of Virginia desire to be independent of Great Britain; in North-Carolina all attachment to the King and the Nation of Britain is gone; a total separation is what they want. Independence is the word most used, | 959 |
17, | Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to their Delegates in Congress: Their proceedings relative to Governour Eden and Alexander Ross, | 960 |
| Letter from Lord Dartmouth to Governour Eden, dated Whitehall, July 5, 1775, | 961 |
| Letters from William Eden to Governour Eden, dated November 15 and December 24, 1775, | 962 |
| Letter from Governour Eden to a Committee of the Council of Safety, | 963 |
| Answer of the Committee to Governour Eden, | 964 |
17, | Letter from Thomas Richardson to Maryland Council of Safety, | 964 |
17, | Letter from Lewestown, near the Capes of Delaware: The Roebuck still remains there, | 965 |
17, | Letter from Thomas Johnson to the Maryland Council of Safety, informing them of the contents of a Letter from Mr. Purviance to the President of Congress, | 955 |
17, | Letter from the President of Congress to Commodore Hopkins, congratulating him, in the name of Congress, on the success of his Expedition to New-Providence, | 965 |
17, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: Two Companies of Colonel Daytons Battalion of New-Jersey Troops to be stationed at Cape-May, | 967 |
17, | Memorial of Colonel Jacob Ford to General Washington, representing the necessity of paying the Troops, | 966 |
17, | Letter from General Washington to the New-York Committee of Safety: The safety of the Colony requires that all intercourse between the inhabitants and the Vessels-of-War of the enemy should cease, | 968 |
1776. |
Apr. 17, | Letter from the New-York Committee of Safety to General Washington, requesting him to procure the release by exchange, of seven citizens, now detained on board the Ships Asia and Phenix, as prisoners, | 1022 |
17, | Letter from Committee for Dutchess County to the New-York Committee of Safety, | 968 |
17, | Letter from Admiral Hopkins to General Babcock: He has ordered Cannon to Rhode-Island, | 969 |
18, | Letter from Colonel Smallwood to Maryland Council of Safety: Alexander Ross was arrested yesterday at Chestertown, | 969 |
18, | Letter from Captain Andrew Beall to the Maryland Council of Safety; with objections to the appointment of William Hamilton, | 969 |
| Recommendations for the appointment of Andrew Beall, Jun., | 970 |
18, | Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to their Delegates in Congress, | 970 |
18, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the President of Congress: They cannot comply with the request of the Congress to arrest Governour Eden, | 970 |
18, | Letter from the Maryland Delegates in Congress to the Council of Safety: The Congress has refused to take any action on Mr. Purviances Letter; the Delegates this morning waited on Mr. Hancock to demand the Letter, but he refused to see them, | 971 |
18, | Remarks on a plan of the American Compact, proposed by an English American, | 972 |
18, | Remarks of an Independent Whig on the proposed American Compact, | 973 |
18, | Reply to the remarks of Rationalis on Common Sense, | 974 |
18, | Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress, | 977 |
| Fac-Simile of the original of the preceding Letter, (opposite) | 977 |
18, | Letter from General Washington to General Ward, respecting Prizes, | 977 |
18, | Letter from New-York Committee of Safety to General Washington: They will embrace every opportunity of co-operating with him in any measure for the publick utility, | 978 |
18, | Letter from Lord Stirling to the New-York Committee of Safety, | 978 |
| Examination of Craig relative to Thomas Vernon, a prisoner, | 978 |
18, | Letter from the Committee for Orange County to New-York Committee of Safety: Ask for another Company on the north side of the Mountains, | 978 |
18, | Letter from the Committee for Orange County to New-York Committee of Safety, respecting the erection of a Powder-Mill, | 979 |
18, | Letter from Jeremiah Clark to Teunis Cuyper, | 979 |
18, | Petition of the Committee of Safety and Officers of the Militia of Kings District, in Albany County, Province of New-York, together with part of the Committee and Militia Officers of the east part of Claverack District; also the east part of Manor Rensselaerwick District, in said County, in the Province of New-York, to the Continental Congress, | 979 |
18, | Letter from Fort George: The Lakes are not yet open; General Thomas has gone on to break his way through; and his forty batteaus, with five hundred men, left this morning with the same intention, | 981 |
19, | Letter from General Lee to the President of Congress: On the defences and condition of Virginia and the Carolinas, | 981 |
| Address of General Lee to the young Gentlemen of Virginia, urging them to form themselves into Companies of Light Dragoons, | 982 |
19, | Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to their Delegates in Congress: They have been treated improperly by the Baltimore Committee, the Virginia Council of Safety, and the Congress; they look up to the Congress with reverence and esteem, as having the supreme authority over the Continent, but that body cannot interfere, with uncontrollable power, in the internal polity of any of the Provinces, | 983 |
19, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Richard Harrison, at Martinico, | 984 |
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