1776. |
May 15, |
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Nathaniel Smith, |
464 |
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Address of the Rev. Mr. Magaw to Colonel Hasletts Continental Battalion, delivered on the parade at Dover, in Delaware, |
464 |
15, |
Resolution of the Continental Congress, recommending to the several Colonies, where no Government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has hitherto been established, to adopt such as shall best conduce to their happiness and safety in particular, and to that of America in general, |
466 |
15, |
Letter from Stephen Hopkins to Governour Cooke: It will not be long before Congress will throw off all connection, as well in name as in substance, with Great Britain. The two Rhode-Island Battalions have been taken into Continental pay, |
467 |
15, |
Resolution of the Committee of Safety of New-Jersey, recommending unanimity among the people, a suppression of all mobs and riots, and the sale of all articles of necessity at a low price; directing that gold or silver coin, when exchanged for paper currency, shall pass only for its usual, or accustomed value, |
467 |
15, |
Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress, |
468 |
15, |
Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler: Supplies for the Northern Army will be forwarded as fast as possible; nothing but the most vigorous exertions can promise success to our plans in that quarter; what might have been effected last year without difficulty, has become an arduous and important work, |
469 |
15, |
Letter from General Washington to Doctor Stringer, |
469 |
15, |
Letter from the New-York Committee to the Provincial Congress: A sub-Committee has been appointed to examine the houses occupied by the Troops, who will inform the Congress what condition they find the houses in, |
470 |
15, |
Letter from Colonel Cortlandt to the New-York Provincial Congress, |
1316 |
15, |
Letter from General Arnold to the Commissioners in Canada, |
579 |
15, |
Letter from General Arnold to Samuel Chase, |
580 |
15, |
Letter from General Thomas to the Commissioners in Canada, |
588 |
15, |
Letter from Captain Harding to Governour Trumbull: With an account of his capture of some Tories, who were attempting to pass to Long-Island, |
470 |
15, |
Letter from Jonathan Sturges to Governour Trumbull: Referring to the declaration of Samuel Hawley, for a minute account of a plot formed by the Tories to co-operate with our enemies and destroy the country, and requesting his situation may be favourably considered, |
471 |
15, |
Recommendation of the several Committees of Inspection of Litchfield County, Connecticut, as to the mode of electing Members of the Continental Congress, |
471 |
15, |
Letter from Aaron Hobart to Richard Devens: Is not successful in casting cannon, |
472 |
16, |
Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: Requests him to come to Philadelphia, in order to consult with Congress upon measures necessary for carrying on the ensuing campaign, |
472 |
16, |
Letter from the President of Congress to General Gates: Informing him of his promotion to the rank of Major-General, |
473 |
16, |
Letter from the President of Congress to Massachusetts Assembly: The Congress, aware of the necessity of a reinforcement for the protection of Boston, and considering it impossible to detach any from the Continental Army for that purpose, have authorized the raising of additional Troops, |
473 |
16, |
Letter from the President of Congress to the Convention of New-Hampshire, |
474 |
16, |
Letter from George Morgan to Lewis Morris: State of Indian Affairs to the North and West, |
474 |
1776. |
May 16, |
Letter from Robert Morris to General Washington: Congress has ordered two hundred and forty-four muskets to be forwarded to him from Rhode-Island, |
475 |
16, |
Inhabitants of Philadelphia requested by the Committee of Safety to spare for the publick use, to be employed in the defence of the country, all the leaden weights in their respective families, |
476 |
16, |
Letter from Colonel Tupper to General Washington: Reporting his proceedings in preventing intercourse with the British Ships-of-War, |
476 |
16, |
Letter from General Washington to Jonathan Sturges, Chairman of the Committee of Suffolk, |
477 |
16, |
Letter from General Washington to the Massachusetts Council, |
477 |
16, |
Letter from General Washington to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, |
478 |
16, |
Letter from Robert H. Harrison to General Ward, |
478 |
16, |
Letter from Colonel Charles De Witt to the New-York Congress, |
1345 |
16, |
Directions of the New-York Committee for the observance of the Continental Fast, on the17th, |
478 |
16, |
Letter from General Sullivan to General Washington: Transporting provisions from Albany to Lake George, |
479 |
16, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: Is making every effort in his power to supply and relieve the Army; the misfortunes experienced would, in all probability, have been prevented, had the Connecticut troops not quitted Canada so early as they did last year, |
480 |
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Letter from General Arnold to General Schuyler, May 11: The distressed situation of the Army can hardly be better for some time; more troops will add to our distress, unless they come supplied with provisions, |
480 |
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Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to General Schuyler, May 11: If the enemys frigates pass the falls of Richelieu, our Army will be cut off from provisions and a retreat by water; if reinforcements are sent without pork to victual the whole Army, our soldiers must perish, or feed on each other, |
481 |
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Letter from Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase to Benjamin Franklin, May 11, |
482 |
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Letter from General Thomas to General Arnold, May 8: If the promised supply of provisions, &c., arrive, he will make a stand at Deschambault, |
482 |
16, |
Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to the President of Congress, |
482 |
16, |
Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to General Schuyler, |
578 |
16, |
Letter from Captain Harding to Governour Trumbull: Further account of his proceedings in pursuit of the Tories; a little perseverance will develop a scheme of the blackest dye, |
482 |
16, |
Proclamation by Governour Trumbull, prohibiting the exportation of any West-India goods out of the Colony of Connecticut before the first of November next, |
483 |
16, |
Letter from the Rev. James Lyon to General Washington: Urging the necessity and importance of an immediate expedition against Nova-Scotia, |
484 |
16, |
Letter from Committee of Northampton, Massachusetts, to the President of Congress: Complaining of the conduct of certain officers of the British Navy, prisoners of war on parole, in that town, |
485 |
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Advertisement by the Committee of Northampton, for apprehending Henry Edwin Stanhope and George Gregory, prisoners on parole, who have violated their word of honour and run away, April 29, |
486 |
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Letter from Henry E. Stanhope to the President of Congress, May 11: Complains that he is confined in Northampton Jail, and requests he may be released, |
486 |
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Letter from E. E. Webb, in Northampton Jail, to the President of Congress, May 12, |
487 |
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