| 1776. |
June 10, |
Letter from General Arnold to General Sullivan: Not a stroke has been done to fortify the camp at St. John’s, where, and at Chambly, near three thousand are sick; not one minute ought to be lost in securing our re treat, and saving our heavy cannon, baggage, and provisions; they will never attack Sorel, |
796 |
10, |
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the New-York Congress: In answer to their letter of December 12, 1775, relative to the people of Connecticut carrying away James Rivington’s types, |
1398 |
10, |
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the President of Congress: The General Assembly have ordered three Regiments to be raised, one for Boston, one for New-London, and one with a view to New-York, if occasion requires; they, also, have ordered one-third part of the Militia upon the sea-coast, and one-fourth part in the more interior part of the Colony; the people of Connecticut will exert every nerve in this critical moment, |
797 |
10, |
Committees of Milford and Stratford, in Con necticut, adopt measures to prevent persons unfriendly to America from holding any correspondence, association, or combination, that may injure the United Colonies, |
798 |
10, |
Meeting of the Committee of New-Fairfield, Conn.: Proceedings respecting Ephraim Hubbel, |
798 |
10, |
Considerations on the mode of electing Dele gates to the General Congress, in Connecticut, |
798 |
10, |
Ship True Blue, from Jamaica, taken by the Cabot, Captain Hindman, |
800 |
10, |
Letter from General Ward to James Warren, |
801 |
10, |
Massachusetts Assembly provide for raising two more Regiments, to serve within the Colony, |
801 |
10, |
Committee for Alford, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, direct Deodat Ingersoll to be published for having violated the eleventh article of the Continental Association, that all true friends to the welfare of the United Colonies may treat him with neglect and contempt due to his criminality, |
802 |
10, |
Letter from Colonel David Gilman to the New-Hampshire Assembly: Requests them to re consider the vote by which they have reduced him to a Lieutenant-Colonel, and placed Captain Darne over him as Colonel, |
803 |
11, |
Letter from Lord George Germaine to General Howe, |
803 |
11, |
Letter from General Lee to Colonel Moultrie: Directing him to detach four hundred Rifle men, to prevent the enemy from erecting works to cut off his retreat, |
1187 |
11, |
Letter from Charles Dickerson to the Maryland Council of Safety: Enclosing Proceedings of the Committee for Caroline County, with the Depositions against Cornelius Hogans, |
804 |
11, |
Letter from John Smith to the Maryland Council of Safety, |
806 |
11, |
Letter from Samuel Smith to Governour Eden, |
806 |
11, |
Letter from Henry Lowes to Maryland Council of Safety, |
806 |
11, |
Letter from the Maryland Delegates in Congress to the Council of Safety: They are astonished at the ungenerous turn given to the proceedings of the Maryland Convention by that of Virginia; and hope there will be spirit enough in Maryland to resent this most injurious treatment; the proposition of the Delegates from Virginia to declare the Colonies independent, was yester day postponed for three weeks, then to be resumed; they desire the explicit sense of the Province on this point, |
806 |
11, |
Letter from the Committee of Lewistown, Delaware, to the President of Congress: The disaffected, to the number of near one thou sand men, are assembled, and openly avow their intention of co-operating with the men-of-war lying in the Road, |
808 |
11, |
Letter from Henry Fisher to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety: The Tories have cut off the communication by land between Lewistown and New-Castle on Delaware; several armed vessels have entered the Bay, |
808 |
1776. |
June 11, |
Deposition of William Barry, prisoner on board the Roebuck when she was attacked by the Row-Galleys, |
809 |
11, |
Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: They have been two days deliberating on three capital matters, the most important of any that have yet been before them, |
811 |
11, |
Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: Mr. Chase and Mr. Car roll arrived this day from Canada; by their account there has been most shocking mismanagement in that quarter, |
812 |
11, |
Letter from the President of Congress to the Provincial Congress of New-York: Giving advice of the approach of a British Fleet and Army, |
1401 |
11, |
Letter from the President of Congress to the Provincial Congress of New-York: The pay of the Troops in the Middle will hereafter be equal to that in the Eastern Department, |
812 |
11, |
Letter from the President of Congress to the Massachusetts Assembly: It is ascertained that it is the design of General Howe to make an attack on New-York. It is highly important that the Militia asked for should be forwarded there with all despatch, |
813 |
11, |
Letter from Elbridge Gerry to James Warren: The question of Independence was yester day postponed to give the Assemblies of the Middle Colonies an opportunity to take off their restrictions and let their Delegates unite in the measure, |
813 |
11, |
Letter from the New-Hampshire Delegates in Congress to Meshech Weare: The question of Independence has been agitated in Con gress, and they wished to be furnished with the sentiments of their constituents, |
814 |
11, |
Letter from Samuel Tucker to General Washington, |
814 |
11, |
Letter from the Provincial Congress of New-York to their Delegates in Continental Con gress: They are unanimously of opinion that the Delegates are not authorized to give the sense of the Colony on the question of declaring it to be, and continue, an independent State, |
814 |
11, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in Continental Congress: Enclosing papers relating to the exportation of pro visions, which they are requested to lay be fore the Continental Congress, |
815 |
11, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to Joseph Trumbull: The Congress has, by a resolution, restrained the exportation of beef and pork for fourteen days, |
815 |
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Letter from Joseph Trumbull to the New-York Congress, June 10: He is directed by General Washington to request they will stop the exportation of pork to foreign ports and places; all will be required for the Troops here and in Canada, |
815 |
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Letter from Joseph Trumbull to General Wash ington, June 9: The Congress Secret Committee are shipping from New-York large quantities of pork; and he fears very bad consequences therefrom to the operations of the present campaign, |
815 |
11, |
Letter from Joseph Trumbull to James Warren: Has been appointed to supply the New-Eng land Troops sent to Canada with provisions, |
816 |
11, |
Resolutions of the Committee for Westchester County, in New-York, directing the arrest of the enemies to America who are daily travel ling through the country in disguise, |
816 |
11, |
Letter from Colonel Livingston to General Washington: In the plan sent for the completion of the Fortifications in the High lands, the work of most consequence is ex cluded, as it commands, at point blank, all the fortifications on the Island; it is directly opposite Fort Constitution, on a point called West Point, and contains about forty acres of level, |
818 |
11, |
Letter from Colonel Livingston to Lord Stirling: Colonel Nicoll resigned the command of the Forts in the Highlands on the 8th instant, |
818 |
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