1776. | | |
May 21, | Address to the People of Pennsylvania: The question now before them is, Whether they will support the union of the Colonies in opposition to the instructions of the House of Assembly, or whether they will support the House of Assembly against the union of the Colonies? | 521 |
21, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: Congress will defer consulting with General Gates, who came this morning, until he arrives, | 533 |
21, | Letter from General Washington to the New-York Congress: About to set out for Philadelphia, General Putnam will have the command, whose instructions he encloses, | 533 |
21, | Instructions to General Putnam, who is required to aid the New-York Congress, in any attempt they may make to seize the principal Tories and disaffected persons on Long-Island, or elsewhere, | 533 |
21, | General Instructions from General Washington to General Putnam, | 534 |
21, | Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler, enclosing the information from Kings District, with the charges the Committee make against him, | 535 |
24, | Letter from General Putnam to General Washington, enclosing despatches from Canada, | 535 |
21, | Letter from General Greene to General Washington:He has no desire of quitting the service, and hopes Congress will adopt no measure that will lay him under the disagreeable necessity of doing it: every man feels himself wounded when neglected; he will be satisfied with any measures Congress shall take that have not a direct tendency to degrade him in the publick estimation, | 536 |
21, | Letter from Colonel Henry B. Livingston to General Washington, with correct soundings of the river in the Highlands, | 536 |
21, | Letter from Jonathan Trumbull, Deputy Paymaster-General, to the President of Congress, on the distressed circumstances of the Northern Army for want of money, | 537 |
21, | Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: Without a further supply of money it will be difficult to carry on any service; Sir John Johnson, regardless of his parole, has secretly combined with the Tories to levy Troops; Colonel Dayton has been sent to make him prisoner, | 537 |
21, | Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Governour Trumbull, | 601 |
21, | Letter from Levi Hollingsworth to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety; He cannot get the heavy cannon at Newport, | 538 |
21, | Letter from Nathaniel Shaw to Admiral Hopkins, | 539 |
21, | Letter from Captain Biddle to Esek Hopkins, Esq.: He has taken a prize, | 539 |
21, | Letter from Admiral Hopkins to Nathaniel Shaw: The cannon at New-London must be delivered to Mr. Hollingsworth and Mr. Richardson, who have been sent from Philadelphia to receive them, | 539 |
21, | Letter from Admiral Hopkins to Governour Trumbull: The cannon at New-London must be delivered to Mr. Hollingsworth without delay, | 540 |
21, | Letter from Esek Hopkins, Commander-in-Chief, to Walter Spooner, | 540 |
21, | Vote of New-Salem, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, in favour of Independence, | 540 |
22, | Letter from the Virginia Convention to the New-York Congress, enclosing the Resolutions of May 15, instructing the Virginia Delegates in Congress to propose a Declaration of Independence, | 1364 |
22, | Letter from Colonel Woodford to General Lew-is: The enemy have abandoned their lines at Portsmouth, and most of their vessels are below Craney-Island, | 540 |
22, | Letter from Lord Dunmore to Colonel Wood-ford, requiring the return of certain prisoners on parole, by the 26th instant, or he will not grant the same indulgence hereafter, and will punish every man of them as they deserve, if they fall into his hands again, | 541 |
1776. | | |
May 22, | Letter from George Morgan to Lewis Morris: Deputations of Indians will meet him at Pittsburgh, by the 15th of June, if the Treaty at Niagara is over, | 541 |
| Messages from the Shawnees to the Congress at Philadelphia, April 24 | 541 |
22, | Letter from the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the Committees of Inspection and Observation in the several Counties in the Province, on the evils that may arise from the high prices demanded for many of the imported articles of merchandise and some necessaries of life, | 542 |
22, | Address and Remonstrance of a number of the Inhabitants of Philadelphia to the Assembly of Pennsylvania, against The Protest of divers Inhabitants of the Province, the purport of which is, to subvert and change the Constitution of Government upon sundry allegations which are not well founded, | 522 |
22, | Bucks County (Pennsylvania) Committee appoint persons to take the arms of the Non-Associators, | 543 |
22, | Letter from General Washington to General Putnam: He is to give every assistance which General Schuyler requires that may be in his power, | 543 |
22, | Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler: Directions have been given to forward such of the supplies for the Army as can be procured, with the utmost despatch; it is unfortunate a stand cannot be made at Deschambault; the lower down the river the post can be maintained, the more important it will be, | 544 |
22, | Letter from the Provincial Congress to the Committee of each County in New-York, with instructions for taking the Census of the whole Colony, | 1328 |
22, | Letter from Jeremiah Bierdan to the New-York Congress, | 1355 |
22, | Letter from Captain Rodgers to the New-York Congress, with an account of his cruise in the armed sloop Montgomery, | 545 |
| Letter from Colonel
Pawling to the New-York Congress, May 19, requesting a commission for Moses Depue, Jun., | 545 |
22, | Letter from several New-York Officers to the Provincial Congress, recommending Captain Uriah Drake, | 545 |
22, | Letter from the Committee of Kingston, New-York, to the Provincial Congress, enclosing examinations of Lemuel Monger and James Monger, charged with passing counterfeit Bills of Credit, | 546 |
22, | Letter from Colonel Dayton to General Schuyler, | 644 |
22, | Letter from General Schuyler to Colonel Dayton, | 645 |
22, | Letter from General Schuyler to Walter Livingston, | 645 |
22, | Letter from Joel Matthews to the New-York Congress, | 548 |
22, | Committees of Cumberland and Gloucester Counties, New-York, nominate Jacob Bay-ley for Brigadier-General, and Simon Stevens for Brigade-Major, | 548 |
22, | Report of a Committee to the Governour and Council of Connecticut, of the examination of Governour Skene, | 548 |
| Letter from Hugh Wallace to Governour Skene, dated New-York, August 2, 1775, | 549 |
| Letter from Hugh Wallace to J. Webb, dated New-York, December 21, 1775, | 550 |
22, | Orders to the Sheriff of Fairfield County, Connecticut, to arrest Captain Daniel Hill, Lieutenant Peter Lyon, and Ensign Samuel Hawley, for a contemptuous disobedience of orders, | 550 |
22, | Letter from Commodore Hopkins to General Washington: All the soldiers that could be collected have been sent in the Providence on the 16th instant; the Cabot and Andrew Doria sailed on a cruise on the 19th, the Columbus will go soon; the two new ships are launched; but the men on board the fleet continue very sickly, and it is very difficult to procure seamen, | 551 |
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