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1776.
May 10
Letter from John Langdon to General Washington,
501
11,
Letter from General Lee to General Washing-ington,
420
11,
Description of the American Flag,
420
11,
Letter from Hugh Young to the Maryland Council of Safety: On the alarm of Captain Squire being at the head of the Bay, he has stopped the vessels prepared to sail, and asks the further instructions of the Council of Safety,
420
11,
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Thomas Russell,
421
11.
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Kent County,
421
11,
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Veazey,
421
11,
Letter from Robert Morris to General Wash ington, informing him that ten tons of gun powder have been sent for the Army at New- York,
421
11,
Memorial of the Committee of Privates of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, to the Congress, on the defenceless condition of the City of Philadelphia; and declaring they have no confidence in a number of the Committee of Safety, who had endeavoured to withdraw them from the Continental Union,
421
11,
Chester County (Pennsylvania) Committee re quest the inhabitants of each Town to ap point persons to collect the arms from the Non-Associators,
422
11,
Rscantation of Nicholas Hemany, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
422
11,
Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress,
423
 
Letter from Lieutenant Grover to General Washington, dated May 5th, making apologies, and requesting to be reinstated,
425
 
Letter from Colonel Knox to Colonel Burbeck, dated April 12, ordering him immediately to New-York, by the most direct road,
425
 
Letter from Colonel Burbeck to Colonel Knox, dated April 12: He cannot comply with the orders,
425
11,
Letter from William Smith, of New-York, to General Howe, communicating information from America,
1368
 
Letter from Ebenezer Hazard to the Printer of the Connecticut Gazette, declaring the Letter, attributed to Mr. Smith, a forgery,
1369
 
Minutes respecting the mode of treating Prisoners in England,
425
 
General Orders, from May 6 to May 11, 1776,
426
11,
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: The Troops are leaving Albany, but get away very slowly,
428
11,.
Letter from General Arnold to General Schuyler,
480
11,
Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to General Schuyler,
480
11,
Letter from Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase to Benjamin Franklin,
482
11,
Letter from Henry E. Stanhope to the President of Congress,
486
12,
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the North-Carolina Committee of Safety, respecting the Prisoners sent from that Province,
429
12,
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Newcastle County, Delaware,
429
12,
Letter from John Adams to Mrs. Adams,
429
12,
Letter from Ensign Clayes to General Washing ton, requesting his directions about Charles Oliver Bruff, arrested on suspicion of being a Tory,
430
12,
Letter from John Niles to the New-York Con gress,
1325
12,
Letter from Lieutenant Cleghorn, at Sorel: On the 6th instant, the enemy at Quebeck, reinforced with three men-of-war and their tenders, sallied out; the American Army fled, leaving the sick behind them,
430
12,
Letter from Commodore Hopkins to General Washington: Has sent him, by Captain Jones, as many of his officers and soldiers as he could collect,
430
1776.
May 12,
Commodore Hopkins’s orders to Captain Bid-die, of the Andrew Doria, to proceed on a cruise of three or four weeks,
430
12,
Commodore Hopkins’s orders to Lieutenant Hinman, of the Brigantine Cabot, to join Captain Biddle,
431
12,
Letter from E. E. Webb to the President of Congress,
487
12,
Letter from General Howe to Lord George Germaine,
431
 
Names of persons, principally of Massachusetts, who sailed in the Glasgow from Halifax for England (Note,)
431
13,
Letter from Wilmington, in North-Carolina: Nine hundred of the enemy, commanded by Clinton and Cornwallis, landed at General Robert Howe’s plantation, and marched to Orton’s Mill, which they burned,
432
13,
Letter from Samuel Purviance, Jun., to the Maryland Council of Safety,
432
13,
Letter from the Baltimore Committee to the Maryland Convention, with a List of the Companies to be formed into a Battalion,
432
13,
Letter from the President of Congress to William Palfrey, with four hundred thousand dollars for the Troops in New-York and Massachusetts,
433
13,
Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington,
433
13,
Letter from John Connolly, a prisoner, to the President of Congress: Says he was not acquainted with Kirkland’s intention to escape, and solicits enlargement for himself,
433
12,
Letter from Dr. John Smyth, a prisoner, to the President of Congress: He was entirely ignorant of Kirkland’s design to escape, and solicits enlargement on parole,
434
13,
Letter from Dr. Cadwallader to the President of Congress: State of the health of Connolly, Smyth, and Cameron,
435
13,
Letter from General Washington to Isaac Sears: The regulation of the price of tea belongs to Provincial Congress of New-York, to whom the Letter from him will be referred,
435
13,
Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke,
436
13,
Letter from General Washington to General Ward: When the works for the defence of Boston Harbour are completed there will be little to apprehend from the enemy,
436
13,
Letter from General Washington to Colonel Waterbury, offering him the command of the Regiment lately General Apiold’s,
436
13,
Letter from the Richmond County Committee to the New-York Congress respecting the conduct of William Dunn, who has been recommended as a proper person for a military appointment,
436
12,
Proceedings of the Committee for Richmond County, New-York, on the complaint of William Dunn against Thomas Frost, on the 7th, 8th, and 11th of May, 1776,
436
13,
Meeting of Committees of Brookhaven, St. George, and Meritches, in Suffolk County, New-York,
569
13,
Letter from Matthew Adgate, Chairman of the Committee of King’s District, New-York, to General Washington, with information respecting a plot which they have in part detected,
438
13,
Letter from General Schuyler to the Albany Committee: Some ships-of-war with troops arrived at Quebeck on the 6th, which obliged our troops to raise the siege. If supplies are not sent immediately the Army must abandon Canada,
438
13,
Letter from General Schuyler to General Sullivan,
449
13,
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington,
449
13,
Letter from General Schuyler to New-York Provincial Congress,
1318
13,
Letter from Fairfield, in Connecticut: Captain Harding, in the Brig Defence, has taken a number of Tories in the Sound, on their way to Long-Island,
439
13,
Recantation of Josiah Stibbins, of Ridgefield, Connecticut,
439
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