1776 |
May 9, |
Daniel Griswold, for speaking frequently against the measures of Congress, and other inimical conduct, advertised as an enemy, by order of the Committee of Inspection for Litchfield, Connecticut, |
401 |
9, |
Letter from General Ward to General Washington: Has paid the strictest attention to all instructions; every effort has been made to complete the works about Boston; Captain Tucker, of the armed schooner Hancock, took two Brigs on the 7th instant, in the Bay, within sight of the Men-of-War, |
401 |
10, |
Letter from Lord Middleton to John Conway Colchurst: Has presented to the King the Petition from the City of Cork; the sentiments it expresses perfectly agrees with his own, |
402 |
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Petition of the Freemen, Freeholders, Artisans, Merchants, Traders, and Protestant inhabitants of the City of Cork, to the King: In the pursuit of an illegal power of Taxation, over a bold, free, and distant people, the armies of Britain have been defeated, British fame has been tarnished, and revenues exhausted; they therefore supplicate the King to direct that the sword may be sheathed, |
402 |
10, |
Letter from General Lee to the President of Congress: There is a noble spirit in Virginia pervading all classes of men; if the same becomes universal we shall all be saved; he is extremely distressed for Engineers; urges on the Congress the absolute necessity of straining every nerve to possess themselves of Niagara at least, if not Detroit, |
403 |
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Letter from the Committee of Secrecy, War, and Intelligence, of Halifax, North-Carolina, to General Lee, enclosing a Letter dated May 6, from General Moore, and giving their views of the state of the Militia of the Province, |
403 |
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Letter from General Moore, dated April 29, to the Halifax Committee: Part of the British Fleet, with about seven hundred Troops, has arrived in Cape-Fear River, and more are hourly expected; reinforcements are indispensably necessary; the Militia are not so ready to turn out on this important occasion as could be wished, |
404 |
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Information from John Pond, dated April 29, that Captain Lindsay, of the British sloop-of-war Falcon, lying at Fort Johnston, in Cape Fear River, with eight Transport vessels, |
405 |
10, |
Resolution of the Virginia Convention, directing eleven hundred and fifty men to be raised immediately, |
405 |
10, |
Notice from the Virginia Committee of Safety that they are ready to grant Commissions for making Reprisals upon the property of the people of Great Britain at sea or in the rivers, |
405 |
10, |
Letter from General Lee to General Washington: He is about to set out for North-Carolina, where eight large British Transports have arrived; the country, from the number of navigable waters, and the want of field engineers, is difficult to defend; the Virginia Convention are almost unanimous for Independence, but differ in their sentiments about the mode, |
405 |
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Opinion of a Council of Officers, summoned by General Lee, at Williamsburgh, on the points of defence in Virginia, |
407 |
10, |
Letter from General Lee to Richard Henry Lee: There is a poorness of spirit and languor in the late proceedings of Congress that is alarming. If they do not immediately declare for positive Independence all is ruined, |
407 |
10, |
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Virginia Committee of Safety, |
408 |
10, |
Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington, |
408 |
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Account of the engagement between the British Men-of-War and the Beats on the Delaware, (Note,) |
408 |
10, |
Letter from the President of Congress to Joseph Trumbull, Commissary-General: The provisions for General Schuyler are to be forwarded as fast as possible, |
409 |
1776 |
May 10, |
Letter from the Marine Committee to Commodore Hopkins: Twenty of the heaviest cannon taken at New-Providence to be sent immediately to Philadelphia, and delivered to the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania; the armed schooner taken in the late cruise must be called the Hopkins, and immediately fitted out as a Continental cruiser, to join the fleet destined against the Newfoundland fishery, |
409 |
10, |
Orders to Captain Cregier, of the Schooner General Putnam, to place himself under the command of Colonel Tupper, |
410 |
10, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committee of Queens County: They are to use all possible diligence in forming those inhabitants of the County, who are friendly to the American cause, into Military Companies and Regiments, |
410 |
10, |
Letter from Duncan Campbell to General Washington, complaining of ill-treatment, |
410 |
10, |
Letter from General Sullivan to General Washington: The several Regiments of his Brigade will march from Albany immediately, and will probably arrive in Quebeck by the 1st of June, |
412 |
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Return of the Troops of the United Colonies, serving in Canada, under the command of Brigadier-General Sullivan, |
411 |
10, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: Condition of the Northern Army. Captain Romans, the Engineer, has been sent from Canada for trial. Colonel Wyn-koop has gone to Ticonderoga. There are not men enough to transport stores across Lake George; and none for Lake Cham-plain, the garrisons of Crown Point, Ticonderoga, the Landing-Place, and Fort George, and for opening Wood Creek, and cutting a road by that route, |
411 |
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General Schuylers Instructions to James Price, Commissary-General in Canada, May 7, |
414 |
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General Orders, February 21, to prevent abuses in the Provision Returns for the Northern Army, and by the embezzlement of those employed in the transportation, |
415 |
10, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: The little quantity of Provisions at Quebeck is truly alarming, |
416 |
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Return of Artillery Stores at Albany, May 9, 1776, |
417 |
10, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress, |
417 |
10, |
Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to General Schuyler, |
449 |
10, |
Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to the President of Congress, |
450 |
10, |
Letter from General Arnold to General Schuyler, |
452 |
10, |
Letter from Dr. Stringer to General Washington, requesting he may be furnished an additional number of Assistants, and more medicines, for the Northern Army, |
417 |
10, |
Proclamation by General Carleton, Govefnour-in-Chief of the Province of Quebeck, offering pardon to his Majestys deluded subjects of the neighbouring Provinces, labouring under wounds and divers disorders, dispersed in the adjacent woods and Parishes; and promising the miserable wretches they may return to their homes when their health is restored, |
418 |
10, |
Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Captain John P. Jones: Orders him to the command of the Sloop Providence, and to take the soldiers on board that belong to General Washingtons Army, and carry them to New-York, |
418 |
10, |
Letter from the President of the Council of Massachusetts to the Delegates of that Colony in Congress, with an account of the powder supplied the Army lately before Boston, by Massachusetts, |
419 |
10, |
Resolution of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, recommending to the inhabitants of the Colony, in their town-meetings, to express their opinions on the propriety of a Declaration of Independence by the Congress, |
420 |
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