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June 17, | Letter from Edmund Pendleton to the Virginia Delegates in Congress, proposing a temporary boundary between Virginia and Pennsylvania, | 932
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17, | Resolutions of the Committee for the Lower District of Frederick County, in Maryland: They will support and maintain at the hazard of their lives and fortunes, what may be recommended by a majority of the Congress; every resolution of the Convention, tending to separate Maryland from a majority of the Colonies, is destructive to our internal safety and big with publick ruin, | 933
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17, | Letter from the Baltimore Committee to the Maryland Council of Safety: Dr. Stevenson is considered an enemy to America, and it would be dangerous to trust so much powder as he claims in his hands, | 933
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17, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Isaac Vanbibber: He can have five hundred pounds in advance, on complying with the terms prescribed by the Convention for erecting Powder-Mills, | 933
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17, | Letter from the New-York Delegates to the Provincial Congress, | 934
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17, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington, | 934
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17, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Schuyler: Nearly two hundred thousand dollars, (twenty-one thousand in silver,) is forwarded for the Army in Canada, | 934
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17, | Letter from William Whipple to John Lang-don: There is little probability of procuring guns for the frigate, if they cannot be obtained at Providence; the Committee decline giving orders for shipping men while the prospect of getting guns is so uncertain, | 1027
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17, | Letter from Josiah Bartlett to John Sullivan: The account given by the Commissioners who have returned from Canada, of the behaviour of the New-England officers and soldiers, is very painful; by their account, men never behaved so badly; some Regiments not having more than one hundred men, when it was expected they had six times that number, stealing and plundering arms, ammunition, military stores, &c., and taking the batteaus and running off, | 1028
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17, | Letter from the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the President of Congress, respecting an exchange of prisoners, | 933
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17, | Address to the Privates of the several Battalions of Military Associators in Pennsylvania: Inviting a Provincial meeting of Associators, to meet at Lancaster, on the 4th of July next, to choose two Brigadier-Generals, | 935
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| | Protest of the Committee of Privates of the Military Associators of Philadelphia, against the appointment of Brigadier-Generals by the Assembly, | 935
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| Protest of the Board of Officers of the five Battalions of Philadelphia, | 937
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17, | Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress: General Wooster has arrived at Head-Quarters, and is desirous of seeing his family in Connecticut, | 937
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17, | Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress, enclosing General Sullivan’s Letter of June 7th, | 937
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| Letter from General Sullivan to General Washington, June 7: Wishes General Washington or General Lee may be sent to Canada. If any other officer is sent to take the command he asks for permission to return, | 938
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17, | Letter from General Washington to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety: It is not possible to spare from New-York any person having the least skill in the business of an Engineer, | 938
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17, | Letter from Joseph Trumbull to the President of Congress: He has found it necessary to purchase in Philadelphia twenty thousand barrels of flour for the Army at New-York and in Canada, | 938
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17, | Memorial of Garret Roorback to Gen. Washington: On the complaints against him, as Barrackmaster in New-York, | 939
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June 17, | Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington, | 939
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| Letter from Colonel Wynkoop to General Schuyler, June 10, | 942
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| Letter from John Lansing, Jun., to General Schuyler, June 14, | 942
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17, | Letter from General Schuyler to Governour Trumbull, | 943
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17, | Letter from General Schuyler to General Sullivan, | 943
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17, | Letter from Governour Trumbull to the President of Congress: Expressing disappointment and surprise at the order of Congress for the removal of the cannon from New-London, by which they are unexpectedly, and without a hearing, stripped naked and left defenceless, | 944
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17, | Letter from Mrs. Wooster to Governour Trumbull, | 945
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17, | Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Captain Biddle, | 945
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17, | Letter from an Officer in the Colony Train at Nantasket, under the command of Colonel Crafts: Account of the expedition to Nantasket against the British fleet, | 945
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17, | Resolve of Massachusetts Assembly prohibiting the exportation of provisions out of the Colony by water, | 946
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17, | Letter from the New-Hampshire Assembly to the President of Congress: Our affairs are hastening fast to a crisis, and the approaching campaign may determine the fate of America; we will cheerfully strain every sinew to maintain and prosecute so just a war on our side till gloriously ended, or perish in the ruins of it, | 947
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18, | Letter from General Lewis to the President of Congress: In consequence of an express from General Lee, he has ordered two Battalions to be in readiness to march to Cross-Creek, in North-Carolina, which much weakens the force in Virginia; and it is not yet certain where General Clinton will make his attack, | 948
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18, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Cumberland Dugan, | 948
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18, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: The unfortunate death of General Thomas having made a vacancy in the command in Canada, General Gates has been appointed to succeed him, | 948
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18, | Letter from the President of Congress to James Mease: Requiring him immediately to purchase, and forward to New-York, as much cloth for tents as he can procure, | 949
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18, | Letter from the President of Congress to Gunning Bedford: Informing him that he has been appointed Mustermaster-General, and directing him immediately to repair to Head-Quarters, at New-York, | 949
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18, | Letter from the President of Congress to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety: The proposed exchange of prisoners will be prejudicial to the general service, | 949
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18, | Letter from the President of Congress to Colonel Haslett, | 949
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18, | Letter from the President of Congress to the Convention of New-Jersey, | 949
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18, | Petition of Charles Walker, of the Island of Providence, to the Continental Congress, for pay for a vessel furnished Admiral Hopkins, when he was at Providence, | 950
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| Charles Walker’s account against the Congress, | 950
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18, | Memorial of Dr. John Morgan to the Congress, | 1714
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June18, | Deputies to the Conference met at Carpenter’s Hall, in Philadelphia, | 951
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| List of the Deputies appointed from the several Counties, | 951
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| Colonel Thomas McKean chosen President, and Colonel Joseph Hart Vice-President, | 952
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19, | On taking questions, the City and Counties, respectively, to have one vote, | 952
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| Resolution of Congress of May 15, read twice and fully approved by the Conference, | 952
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