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| July 5, |
Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Dorchester County, with lead for the use of the County, |
1256 |
5, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Daniel and Samuel Hughes: Annapolis is to be fortified immediately, and they are desired to send as many of the eighteen and nine-pounders as they have made, | 1256 |
6, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Thomas Smyth, Thomas B. Hand, and Joseph Nicholson, Jun., who have been appointed Members of the Council of Safety, requesting their immediate attendance, | 1256 |
6, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Colonel Kent, offering him the command of the Colony ship Defence, Captain Nicholson having been appointed to the command of one of the Continental frigates, | 1257 |
6, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Beall, to supply Captain Thomas with guns and bayonets, | 1257 |
6, | Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Worcester County, | 1257 |
4, | Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: The unhappy confusions in Pennsylvania have hitherto prevented the establishment of the Flying Camp; but things will now take a different turn, as the contest to keep possession of power is at an end, and a new mode of Government will soon be adopted, | 1258 |
4, | Letterfrom the President of Congress to the Maryland Convention: Most ardently beseeches, in the name of the Congress, that they will strain every nerve to send forward their Militia; General Howe has possession of Staten-Island, and the Jerseys are drained of their Militia for the defence of New-York, | 1258 |
4, | Declaration of Independence, | 1259 |
4, | Meeting of the Officers and Privates of the As-sociators of Pennsylvania, at Lancaster: Daniel Roberdeau and James Ewing elected Brigadier-Generals, | 1261 |
4, | Extract of a Letter from Trenton, in New-Jersey: The British have placed two Regiments opposite Amboy, and planted several pieces of cannon there and at each of the ferries on Staten-Island; the Jersey Militia have turned out unanimously, but most of them have gone over to New-York: Pennsylvania should send them some assistance, | 1262 |
4, | Letter from General Livingston to General Washington: The enemy have posts along the whole of Staten-Island shore as far as Amboy, | 1262 |
4, | Letter from the Committee for Essex County, New-Jersey, to General Washington: Not only the levies but the main body of the Militia of New-Jersey have gone to New-York, and it is probable that General Howe, who has possession of Staten-Island, knowing their defenceless condition, will ravage the country near him; they rely upon the General for assistance, but if it be necessary that they should fall a sacrifice to the benefit of the common cause, they will endeavour to support their misfortunes without repining, | 1262 |
4, | Letter from General Washington to General Mercer, directing a return of a portion of the Militia of New-Jersey, | 1263 |
4, | Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress, | 1264 |
4, | Extract of a Letter from General Greene, | 1265 |
| Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington, July 1, | 1266 |
| Statement of a conversation between General Schuyler and General Gates, June 30, | 1268 |
| Letter from General Sullivan to General Schuyler, June 24, | 1269 |
| General Orders, from July 1 to July 4, | 1269 |
4, | Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress: Proposes raising a new Rifle Battalion, | 1272 |
4, | Captain Hardenburgh ordered to arrest Cad-walader Colden, Jun., | 1113 |
4, | Cadwalader Colden, Jun., committed to the common jail, by the Committee for Ulster County, | 1272 |
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July 4, |
Letter from the Committee for Ulster County to the New-York Congress, |
1273 |
4, | Letter from the Committee of Panton to General Gates, submitting a plan for the protection of themselves and their families, | 1274 |
4, | Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington, suggesting measures for the protection of the inhabitants of the northern frontiers of New-York and New-Hampshire, who, by the retreat of the Army from Canada, are exposed to the ravages of the Indians, | 1275 |
4, | Letter from Colonel Seymour to Governour Trumbull: He cannot proceed with the Light-Horse to New-York, and requests another may be appointed in his place, | 1276 |
4, | Letter from Governour Trumbull to Colonel Seymour, directing him to deliver his instructions to Major Hart, and to animate the men and hasten their march, | 1276 |
4, | Letter from Governour Trumbull to David Ga-lusha, Chairman of the Committee on Ben-nington Grants: Has written General Washington to use his influence with the Continental Congress, that a Battalion of Foot may be raised and stationed on or near the Grants, | 1276 |
4, | Letter from Dr. Eleazer Wheelock to Governour Trumbull, | 1277 |
4, | Proclamation by the Council of Massachusetts, setting apart Thursday, the 1st of August next, to be observed throughout the Colony as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting and prayer, | 1277 |
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PENNSYLVANIA COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.
| 1776. |
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| June 1, |
Captain Hazlewood directed to build an additional Guard-Boat for the use of the Province,
| 1277 |
3, | Commodore to the Naval Armaments of the Province to be appointed on Monday next, | 1278 |
| Two additional armed Boats to be built, | 1279 |
7, | Resignation of Captain Thomas Read, of the ship Montgomery, accepted, | 1279 |
| Allan Cameron, at his request, confined in the same room with General McDonald, | 1279 |
| Instructions to Captain Brown, appointed to go on board the Liverpool man-of-war for an exchange of prisoners, | 1280 |
15, | The two Chevaux-de-frise prepared for stopping the channel, to be immediately moved in proper stations, | 1283 |
| Mr. McClean, a person inimical to the liberties of America, committed to prison on the request of the President of Congress, | 1283 |
| Samuel Davidson, commander of the Floating Battery, appointed Commodore of the Naval Armaments of the Province, | 1283 |
| A number of Chevaux-de-frise to be sunk in the channel of the Delaware, at Billingsport, immediately, | 1284 |
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Application to the Congress for an Engineer, |
1284
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Letter to General Washington, requesting him to send an Engineer to furnish plans for defences, |
1284
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17, | Commissions granted to Wingate Newton, of the privateer brigantine Hancock, of twelve carriage guns; and to John Craig, of the Sloop Congress, Privateer, burden seventy tons, six cannon and thirty men, | 1285 |
18, | Memorial from the Captains of the armed Boats, setting forth their unwillingness and determination not to obey the commands of Commodore Davidson, | 1286 |
| Commodore Davidson’s Commission signed by Robert Morris, Vice-President, | 1286 |
19, | The Delegates of this Province requested to ascertain from the Congress whether it is their intention that the Committee of Safety shall proceed to form the Flying Camp, | 1286 |
20, | Instructions to Commodore Davidson, | 1287 |
| Edward Bingley appointed Captain of the Fire Brigantine, | 1287 |
| The Commodore directed to distribute fifty rounds of gunpowder to each of the armed Boats, | 1287 |
| Letter to George Bryan, Naval Officer, respecting Pilots, | 1288 |
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