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1776.
May 15,
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Nathaniel Smith,
464
 
Address of the Rev. Mr. Magaw to Colonel Haslett’s 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
 
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
 
Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to General Schuyler, May 11: If the enemy’s 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
 
Letter from Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase to Benjamin Franklin, May 11,
482
 
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
 
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
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
Letter from E. E. Webb, in Northampton Jail, to the President of Congress, May 12,
487
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