1776.

Letter from Doctor Hunloke Woodruff to the New-York Congress,

Letter from General Schuyler to Colonel Dayton,

Letter from General Thompson to the Commissioners in Canada,

Letter from General Arnold to the Commissioners in Canada,

Letter from the Committee of Machias to the General Court of Massachusetts, with an account of the proceedings of Stephen Parker,

Letter from General Carleton to Lord George Germaine: Has just received an account from Captain Forster that, with some Canadians and a number of Indians, he had taken a fort at the Cedars, two cannon, and three hundred and ninety Rebels, prisoners at discretion,

Letter from Edmund Pendleton to the Maryland Convention: Lord Dunmore, with the fleet, has left Norfolk on the 22d, and has passed the mouth of York river up the Bay,

Letter from Thomas Dorsey to the Maryland Council of Safety, respecting Mr. Henry Ridgely’s Memorial,

Letter from George Brent to the Maryland Council of Safety, for a supply of powder and lead for the people of Skipton District, as from our ill success against Quebeck an Indian war is probable,

Letter from the President of Congress to the Officer commanding the Continental Troops in Philadelphia,

Letter from Captain Hamilton to the New-York Congress,

Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington, with information from Canada,

Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to General Schuyler, May 16: The Army at Montreal is suffering for provisions,

Letter from General Arnold to the Commissioners in Canada, May 15: He has procured a small quantity of provisions, and can collect in three months sufficient for ten thousand men; he is making every possible disposition for defence at Sorel, and will secure the post in a few days,

Letter from General Arnold to Samuel Chase, May 15: Thanks him for his kind offer of a mutual and unreserved communication of sentiments; is fully of opinion with him in regard to persons holding criminal correspondence with our enemies. Blankets and coarse linens are exceedingly wanted; the men returned from below are naked,

Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington,

Return of the Garrison at Fort George, May 26, 1776,

Letter from Mark Hopkins to General Washington: The suspicions against General Schuyler, communicated by the Committee in Berkshire, Massachusetts, were wholly groundless; that there has been a plan forming among our enemies in the Colonies, there can be no doubt; but some evil and designing men have greatly magnified it,

Declaration of Rights, as reported by a Committee of the Virginia Convention,

Letter from the Baltimore Committee to the Maryland Council of Safety,

Return of Companies of Militia in Baltimore County,

Meeting of Associators in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania: Declare in favour of a Convention for carrying into execution the Resolve of Congress of May 15,

Letter from William Palfrey to the President of Congress,

Letter from General Putnam to General Washington,

Letter from the New-York Committee to the Provincial Congress: Margaret Beck has been arrested for sending provisions on board the men-of-war,

Letter from Lieutenant Jacob Lawrence to the New-York Congress,

1776.

Letter from John Williams to the New-York Congress: Desires to be excused from serving as a member; he is so little acquainted with business that he can be of no service,

Letter from Jonathan Lawrence to the New-York Congress: John Moore, Jun., of New-town, is sent for their examination,

Letter from Aaron Stockholm to the New-York Congress, with complaints against Peter McLean, Samuel Galsworthy, Francis de la Roche, and another, as dangerous to the cause of liberty,

Letter from Colonel Thomas to the New-York Congress, requesting commissions for officers of a Company of Grenadiers in his Regiment,

Application to the New-York Congress from a number of persons in Blooming-Grove, who wish to form a Company of Light-Horse,

Letter from William Allison to John Haring: A considerable quantity of saltpetre will be made in Orange County, New-York, by private families; money must be sent him to pay for it,

Letter from General Schuyler to Colonel Dayton,

Letter from General Schuyler to Walter Livingston,

Letter from General Schuyler to the Albany Committee: No batteaus should be permitted to pass Fort Stanwix but such as are designed to trade with the Six Nations, some of them having already joined the King’s Troops,

Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: Medicines are much wanted at Fort George and Ticonderoga,

Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to General Schuyler, May 17: They are about to proceed from Montreal to the Sorel, where the Army is collected. They have at present no fixed abode, being obliged to become Generals, Commissaries, and Justices of the Peace. Things are in great confusion; but out of confusion they hope order will arise,

Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to the President of Congress, May 17: Doctor Franklin, who with the Rev. Mr. Carroll, left Montreal on the 11th instant, will give the fullest information of the state of our affairs in Canada. The confusion which prevails through every department, relating to the Army, cannot be described. The recent disgraceful flight is the principal source of all the disorders in the Army,

Letter from General Thomas to the Commissioners in Canada, May 15: He remained six days at Deschambault, in hopes of receiving a supply of provisions; but was compelled with great reluctance to leave there. Only three pounds of meal per man, and not an ounce of meat remained when they came off,

Letter from General Sullivan to General Schuyler,

Letter from Theodore Sedgewick to General Wooster: General Thomas being at present incapable of attending to the necessary concerns of the Army, suggests the propriety of detaching a party to secure the post at Isle-aux-Noix, as a considerable force of the enemy is above Deschambault,

Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to the President of Congress: General Thomas is at Chambly, under the small-pox, and has sent for General Wooster to take the command. General Wooster is totally unfit to command the Army and conduct the war. His stay in Canada is unnecessary and even prejudicial to our affairs. The Army is broken and disheartened: half of it under inoculation or under other diseases. The hypocritical, insidious, base, and wicked conduct of Captain Forster, a British officer, needs few comments. He could control the savages for the advantage of the British, but had not the least influence over them to prevent their murdering our people in cold blood,