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June 27, | Letter from Colonel Clinton to General Washington, requesting his instructions about the arrest of some suspected persons, | 1111 |
27, | Letter from Cadwalader Colden, Jr., to the Committee for Ulster County, New-York, complaining of the treatment he had received from the Committee of Newburgh and New-Windsor; and asking for an immediate hearing before the County Committee, | 1112 |
27, | Letter from Captain Harding to Governour Trumbull, | 1113 |
| Inventories of the Cargoes of three transports, prizes taken by Captain Harding, | 1113 |
28, | Letter from James Smith to the Committee or Council of Safety of any port or place, except Philadelphia or its precincts, enclosing a bill of lading for five hundred weight of gunpowder, shipped at St. Eustatia, | 1114 |
28, | Letter from General Lee to Colonel Moultrie: Will immediately send him a reinforcement, | 1191 |
28, | Letter from General Lee to Colonel Moultrie: If the ammunition is expended without beating off the enemy, he must spike his guns and retreat with all the order possible, | 1191 |
28, | Letter from General Lee to Colonel Moultrie: His conduct in the action does him infinite honour; will send him more ammunition and a reinforcement, | 1191 |
28, | Letter from President Rutledge to Colonel Moultrie: Sends him five hundred pounds of powder; some may be had from Haddrells; wishes him honour and victory, | 1191 |
28, | List of Post Offices that make Returns to Alexander Purdie, Deputy Postmaster of the Constitutional Post Office, Williamsburgh, Virginia, | 1114 |
28, | Proposals of Elisha Tyson for erecting a Pow-der-Mill at the Little Falls of Gunpowder River, Baltimore County, Maryland, | 1115 |
28, | Letter from William Lux to the Maryland Council of Safety, | 1115 |
28, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to William Selby, | 1115 |
28, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Calvert County, | 1116 |
28, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the several County Committees, enclosing a Resolution of Congress requesting a complete list of the number of inhabitants in each Colony, | 1116 |
28, | Letter from John Penn to Samuel Johnston: A dangerous plot has lately been discovered at New-York; the design was to blow up the Magazine and kill General Washington. The first day of July the question of Independence will be agitated; there is no doubt of a total separation from Great Britain; all the Colonies are for it except Maryland, and her people are coming over fast, | 1116 |
28, | John Clark, of Allen Township, declared an enemy to the rights and liberties of America, by the Committee for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, | 1116 |
28, | Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress, | 1117 |
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| Warrant for the execution of Thomas Hickey, at Head-Quarters, New-York, June 28, 1776, | 1119 |
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| General Return of the Army of the United Colonies, New-York, June 28, 1776, | 1119 |
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| Return of General Scotts Brigade, New-York, June 29, 1776, | 1119 |
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| Return of the Regiment of Artillery, commanded by Henry Knox, New-York, June 28, 1776, | 1121 |
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| Return of the New-York Company of Artillery, commanded by Captain Hamilton, | 1121 |
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| Return of the Arms and Accoutrements in the Army in and near New-York, June 24, 1776, | 1121 |
28, | Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler, | 1121 |
28, | Letter from General Washington to the Massachusetts Assembly, urging them not to lose a moments time in sending forward the Militia of that Province, | 1123 |
28, | Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull: A fleet consisting of one hundred and thirty sail left Halifax on the 9th instant, bound for New-York; General Howe is already arrived at the Hook, | 1124 |
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June 28, | Letter from Colonel Joseph Reed to Samuel Tucker: Unless the most speedy and effectual measures are taken to throw a body of men, well armed, into New-York, the most fatal consequences are to be apprehended, | 1124 |
28, | Letter from Colonel Reed to the New-York Provincial Congress, | 1125 |
28, | Petition of Nathan Guyer to the New-York Congress, for a hearing: He does not know the charges against him, | 1125 |
28, | Letter from Thomas Roche to the New-York Congress, | 1125 |
28, | Petition of Charles Morse to the New-York Provincial Congress, | 1125 |
28, | Order of the Committee of Ulster County, New-York, for Cadwalader Colden, Jun., to appear before them on the 4th of July, next, | 1112 |
28, | Deputies elected to represent the City and County of Albany in the Provincial Congress, | 1126 |
28, | Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Schuyler, | 1126 |
28, | Letter from Captain Biddle to Commodore Hopkins, | 1126 |
28, | Letter from Thaddeus Burr to Governour Trumbull, | 1127 |
28, | Letter from Samuel Smedley to Governour Trumbull, giving him an account of the capture of the transports taken by Captain Harding, | 1127 |
29, | Letter from General Lee to Colonel Monltrie: Thanks him and his brave garrison most heartily, and will do them justice in his letters to Congress, | 1191 |
29, | Letter from President Rutledge to Colonel Moultrie, giving particular thanks to him, and the brave officers and men in his garrison, for their heroick behaviour of yesterday, | 1191 |
29, | Letter from General Lee to General Gates: The tyrants mercenaries have met with a double repulse at Charlestown; their squadron has been roughly handled; our troops, though raw, behaved most nobly; their troops attempted twice to land, and were twice repulsed by the South-Carolina Rangers, | 1128 |
29, | Letter from General Lee to Edmund Randolph: Yesterday the enemys squadron anchored before Fort Sullivan and began one of the most furious cannonades ever, heard; the behaviour of the garrison was brave to the last degree; the defences of the fort have received no injury, only one gun dismounted, | 1129 |
29, | Address of Governour Patrick Henry to the Virginia Convention, | 1129 |
29, | Resolves of the Committee for the Upper District of Frederick County, in Maryland, in favour of forming a new Government, | 1130 |
29, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Hindman, | 1130 |
29, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Lieutenant Bracco: All the men under his command who have not had the small-pox to be inoculated immediately, | 1130 |
29, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Jesse Hollingsworth, | 1131 |
29, | Republicus to the People of Pennsylvania: Reconciliation is thought of now by none but knaves, fools, and madmen. We cannot offer terms of peace to Great Britain until we agree to call ourselves by some name; that of the United States of America is proposed, | 1131 |
29, | Letter from the President of Congress to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, enclosing the Resolutions of Congress of June 27th, for augmenting the Continental forces, and authorizing the raising of a German Battalion, | 1132 |
29, | Letter from the President of Congress to the Convention of Maryland, | 1132 |
29, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: The loss of Canada is undoubtedly, on some accounts, to be viewed in the light of a misfortune; yet there is a mixture of good fortune attending it; the retreat of the Army with their baggage, cannon, &c, reflects honour upon the officers who conducted it, | 1133 |
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