| 1776. |
June 11, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Wash ington: He is preparing everything with the utmost secrecy for taking post at Fort Stanwix. Mr. Deane says the Oneidas believe Butler has called a meeting of the Six Nations at Oswego; and they apprehend he will attempt to procure the Six Nations to join the more western Indians, and assist them in falling on the German Flats, |
819 |
11, |
Letter from General Arnold to General Sullivan: Mr. Tucker has just arrived at Mon treal, and tells a confused story of an engagement between General Thompson and the enemy, |
820 |
11, |
Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Captain Jones: Directs him to come with the sloop Providence to Newport immediately, |
820 |
11, |
Letter from William Bartlett to General Washington: His proceedings with respect to the vessels taken and brought in by Captain Manley, |
821 |
12, |
Declaration of Rights adopted by the Virginia Convention, |
1561 |
12, |
Governour Eden with advice of the Council, orders a Proclamation for dissolving the pre sent Assembly of Maryland, which stands prorogued to this day, and to call a new As sembly, to meet on the 25th of July next, |
740 |
12, |
Letter from Charles Carroll, Barrister, to William Hayward: Suggestions for a vindication of the conduct of the Maryland Convention against the injurious insinuations thrown out by the Convention of Virginia, in their Resolves, |
821 |
12, |
Letter from the Committee for Calvert County to the Maryland Council of Safety, |
823 |
12, |
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Robert Alexander, |
823 |
12, |
Memorial of Colonel Nicholson, requesting General Washington to order an inquiry to be made concerning his conduct, |
823 |
12, |
Address of the New-York Committee to the aged friends of the American cause in the City and County of New-York, |
824 |
12, |
Address of Columbus to the Electors of the City and County of New-York, on the necessity of forming a new mode of Government, |
825 |
12, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington, |
925 |
12, |
Letter from Dr. Stringer to General Schuyler, |
977 |
12, |
Extract of a Letter from the Camp at the mouth of the Sorel: Account of the attack on the post at Trois Rivières, and defeat of the detachment under General Thompson, |
826 |
12, |
Letter from Theodore Stanton to Governour Trumbull, |
828 |
12, |
Proceedings of the Committee of New-Milford, Conn., on charges against Captain John Clark and Lieutenant Alexander Brink, |
829 |
12, |
Letter from James Warren to Elbridge Gerry: More than one-half of the Representatives in the Assembly of Massachusetts are instructed fully in favour of Independence, and not one against it; more are expecting similar instructions to follow them, |
829 |
12, |
Address of “A Watchman to the People of Massachusetts-Bay,” |
830 |
13, |
Letter from General Lee to Colonel Moultrie: Does not like the scheme of retreating from Sullivan’s Island by boats; that there may be two means of retreat, the bridge should be finished without delay, |
1186 |
13, |
Letter from General Lee to Colonel Moultrie, for an exact state of his ammunition, that he may be supplied accordingly, |
1187 |
13, |
Petition of Turbutt Betton, Jun., to the Mary land Convention, |
832 |
13, |
Letter from Thomas McKean to the President of Congress: A thousand Tories are under arms in Sussex County, Delaware. Troops have been sent after them, |
833 |
13, |
Letter from Thomas McKean to the President of Congress: The Insurgents of Sussex County have dispersed; they deny all intercourse with the enemy, or disaffection to the American cause, |
833 |
13, |
Letter from George Evans to Michael Hillegas, |
833 |
| 1776. |
June 13, |
Letter from the President of Congress to the Agents for Prizes at Philadelphia, thanking them for the offer of hard money, |
834 |
13, |
Letter from the President of Congress to Ebenezer Hancock: Informing him of his appointment as Deputy Paymaster-General to the Continental Troops in the Eastern Department, |
834 |
13, |
Letter from Richard Henry Lee to General Washington: This day he sets off for Virginia; it is more than probable that Congress will order Gates to Canada, |
834 |
13, |
Address of “A Watchman to the People of Pennsylvania.” The time for reconciliation with England has gone by; neither Hessians nor Commissioners can accomplish it now, |
835 |
13, |
Recantations of Michael Ohl, John Romick, and Joseph Romick, of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, |
836 |
13, |
Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress: The necessity for decision and despatch in all our measures be comes every day more and more apparent; the establishment of a War Office, formerly suggested to the Congress, appears to have been dropped; the utility and importance of the measure is again submitted to their consideration, |
837 |
13, |
Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler, |
837 |
13, |
Letter from General Washington to the New-York Congress: A number of persons on Long-Island have in their hands a consider able quantity of provisions which they refused to sell for Continental bills; the provisions are wanted for the Army; the Commissary-General has neither gold nor silver, |
839 |
13, |
Letter from General Washington to General Sullivan, |
839 |
13, |
Memorial of Catharine Lamb to General Washington, |
839 |
13, |
Memorial of Mangle Minthorn to the New-York Congress, praying that he may be re instated in the good opinion of his fellow-citizens, |
1400 |
13, |
Letter from Captain Sackett to the New-York Congress, |
840 |
13, |
Letter from Captain Sackett and other Officers of the Fourth New-York Regiment to General Washington, |
840 |
13, |
An Address to the Publick, on the interest of America, |
840 |
13, |
Letter from Abraham Ten Broeck to General John M. Scott, |
1405 |
13, |
Letter from John Lansing, Jun., to Captain Varick, |
942 |
13, |
Letter from General Schuyler to General Sullivan: Is happy to find that the chaos and confusion, which have reigned so triumphant in our Army, are on the point of being expelled, |
843 |
13, |
Albany Committee direct the removal of certain Prisoners to Hartford, in Connecticut, |
1072 |
| |
List of charges against the Prisoners sent from Albany to Hartford, |
1072 |
13, |
Proceedings of the Commissioners for transacting Indian Affairs for the Northern Depart ment, at a meeting held in Albany, |
914 |
13, |
Letter from General Arnold to Gen. Schuyler, |
1038 |
13, |
Letter from General Arnold to Gen. Sullivan, |
1104 |
13, |
Letter from Colonel Hazen to Gen. Sullivan, |
1105 |
13, |
Letter from Colonel Antill to General Sullivan, |
1106 |
13, |
Letter from Nathaniel Shaw, Jun., to Govern our Trumbull, for a commission for a Privateer, |
844 |
13, |
Letter from Colonel Coit to the Assembly of Connecticut, requesting permission to resign, |
844 |
13, |
Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Captain Jones, |
844 |
13, |
Letter from Jacob Hawley to Elbridge Gerry: Congress cannot declare Independence too soon, but the Confederation must be form ed with great deliberation; two-thirds of the Towns in Massachusetts have instructed their Delegates in favour of Independence, |
844 |
13, |
Address and Petition of Major Hacket to the Assembly of New-Hampshire, |
845 |
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