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June 19, | Present Government of Pennsylvania declared incompetent to the exigencies of our affairs, | 952
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| Provincial Convention to be called for the express purpose of forming a new Government in the Province, on the authority of the people only, | 953
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| Committee to provide for calling the Convention, | 953
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| Petition from the German Associators of Philadelphia, read, | 953
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| Qualifications of electors and of persons who may be elected, considered in Committee of the Whole, | 953
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20, | Qualifications reported and agreed to, | 953
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| The election to be made by ballot, | 954
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| No person advertised by any Committee as an enemy to the liberties of America, permitted to vote, | 954
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21, | Every voter at the proposed election shall be a freeman, | 954
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| Oath and Declaration to be taken by a person elected before he can take a seat in the Convention, | 954
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| Address and Petition of the Commanders of the thirteen Row-Galleys to the Conference, | 954
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| Committee to consider the proper time, place, and manner, of holding and regulating the ensuing election, | 955
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| Memorial from the Patriotick Society of the City of Philadelphia to the Conference, | 955
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| Eight Representatives to be sent by the City of Philadelphia, and eight by each County in the Province, to the Convention, | 956
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22, | Address from the Committee of Privates of the Associators in Philadelphia, presented and read, | 956
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| Minute from the Proceedings of the Committee of Safety, presented and read, | 957
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23, | Districts of the several Counties for holding the election for Members of the Convention, | 957
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| Committee to prepare a draft of an Address to the Inhabitants of the Province, | 960
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| Committee to obtain from the Committee of Safety a copy of all Orders given to Samuel Davidson since his appointment as principal Commander of the Navy of the Province, | 960
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| Draft of an Address to the Inhabitants of the Province, presented and read, | 960
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| Resolutions of Congress of the 3d and 4th of June, instant, read, | 960
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| Resolution of the Assembly of the 14th instant, read, | 961
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| Minute from the Proceedings of the Committee of Safety, read, | 961
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| Committee to devise ways and means for raising four thousand men, which, with the fifteen hundred now in the pay of the Province, will be the quota of the Colony required by the Congress, | 961
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| Committee to draft a Resolution declaring the sense of the Conference with respect to an independence of this Province on the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain, | 961
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| Commodore Samuel Davidson and the Captains of the Row-Galleys requested to forbear to take any steps which may involve the fleet in confusion, | 961
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| Address to the People of Pennsylvania, | 962
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24, | Declaration on the subject of the independence of Pennsylvania on the Crown of Great Britain, | 962
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| Report of the Committee appointed to wait on the Captains of the Row-Galleys, | 963
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| Report of the Captains of the Provincial Galleys, | 963
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| Committee to prepare a draft of an Address to the Associators of the Province, on the subject of imbodying four thousand five hundred men, | 964
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25, | Proportion of the four thousand five hundred men to be imbodied in each County, | 964
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| Command of Commodore Davidson to be confined to the ship-of-war, without control over the galleys, | 965
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| Committees throughout the Province to examine all strangers, | 965
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| Address to the Associators of Pennsylvania, | 965
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| Conference dissolved itself, | 966
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June 18, | Remonstrance of the Captains of the Row-Galleys to the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania, | 966
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18, | Letter from the Convention of New-Jersey to the President of Congress, | 967
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| Proceedings of the Convention of New-Jersey, respecting the apprehending William Franklin, Governour of the Colony, | 967
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18, | Letter from Samuel Tucker to the President of Congress, | 968
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18, | Dinner to General Washington and suite, by the New-York Provincial Congress, | 1415
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18, | Court of Inquiry on Captain Copp, on the complaint of Lieutenant Colonel Zedtwitz, | 969
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18, | Letter from General Schuyler to the Massachusetts Assembly: The four Battalions to be sent from Massachusetts into Canada are to march by the most direct road to Skenes-borough, | 969
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18, | Letter from General Schuyler to Meshech Weare: The troops from New-Hampshire for Canada are to march by the most direct road to Onion River or to Crown Point, | 969
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18, | Connecticut Council of Safety, | 970
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18, | Letter from Thomas Richardson to Commodore Hopkins, | 971
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18, | Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Captain Whipple: Prizes he may take anywhere to the eastward of the Shoals to be sent to Boston, as the safest harbour; the British fleet has been driven out of the Bay, | 972
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18, | Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Captain Jones, | 972
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18, | Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Captain Biddle, | 972
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18, | Letter from Commodore Hopkins to John Bradford, agent of the fleet at Boston, | 972
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18, | Letter from Meshech Weare to the New-Hampshire Delegates in Congress, enclosing Resolutions of the General Assembly of the 15th instant, directing them to join with the other Colonies in declaring the Thirteen United Colonies a Free and Independent State, | 1029
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19, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Worcester County, | 973
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19, | Letter from the President of Congress to Governour Trumbull, requesting such measures may be adopted as will be most likely to comply with the Resolutions of Congress of the 3d of June. The Congress expect he will deliver the cannon and trucks to the agent of Pennsylvania, | 973
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19, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington, | 973
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19, | Instructions of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to Commodore Samuel Davidson, commander of all the Provincial Naval Armaments in the River Delaware, | 1287
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19, | Letter from Captain Pond to General Washington: He has taken two prizes with sloop Schuyler, | 974
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19, | Memorial of Alexander Robinson, George Lindsay, Peter Sim, and Marinus Willet, requesting some encouragement in the manufacturing of Salt, | 1416
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19, | Petition of Dr. Azor Betts to the New-York Congress, praying to be discharged, | 1417
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19, | Petition of Garret Roorback to the New-York Congress, | 1417
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19, | Letter from General Scott to Garret Roorback, | 974
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19, | Letter from General Sullivan to General Schuyler, giving an account of his unfortunate campaign and his abandonment of Canada, | 1103
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19, | Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: General state of affairs in the Northern Department, | 974
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| Letter from General Arnold to General Schuyler, June 10th: At a meeting with Indians at Montreal on the 7th instant, three of the Tribes delivered up the hatchet received from Governour Carleton last year; the Oswegat-chies pretended they had no authority for doing it; they were told we were ready to receive them either as friends or enemies, | 976
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| Letter from Dr. Samuel Stringer to General Schuyler, June 12, | 977
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