645 Documents

Letter from John Dickinson, Fairhill, to Josiah Quincy, Jun. The Colonies very unanimous in favour of a Congress. [1774-06-20] Dickinson, John. [S4-V1-p0434] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of the Freeholders and Freemen of the County of Richmond, in Virginia. [1774-06-29] New-York, Richmond County Freeholders; Peachey, Leroy. [S4-V1-p0492] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Argumentative part of the Instructions (Note). [Undated] . [S4-V1-p0574] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Williamsburg, July 28, 1774. [1774-07-28] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p0593] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of York County, in Virginia. [1774-07-18] Virginia, York County Freeholders; Russell, William. [S4-V1-p0595] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the County of Fairfax, in Virginia. [1774-07-18] Virginia, Fairfax County Freeholders. [S4-V1-p0597] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Adjourned to Monday, the 19th September. [1774-07-23] Pennsylvania Assembly. [S4-V1-p0609] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The British American, No. 9. If Great Britain should attempt to enforce the legislation of Parliament in America, the Americans must draw their Swords in a just cause, and rely on that God who assists the righteous. Thomson Mason avows himself the author of these Letters. [1774-07-28] Mason, Thomson. [S4-V1-p0648] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Convention of Delegates from the different Counties in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, begun at Williamsburg, on the 1st day of August, and continued, by adjournments, to the 6th, After the first day of November, will import no Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, from Great Britain, nor British Manufactures from any other place nor purchase any that may be imported, Will neither import any Slave, nor purchase any that may be imported after the 1st November, No Tea to be imported hereafter, and that which is on hand, not permitted to be used, No Tobacco to be exported after the 10th of August next, unless American Grievances are sooner redressed and the Inhabitants of the Colony advised to refrain from the cultivation of it, The breed of Sheep to be improved, and their number increased, to the utmost extent, Merchants are not to take advantage of the scarcity of Goods, but to sell at the present prices, No Merchant or Trader to be dealt with, after the first of November next, who will not sign this Association, If any person shall, after the 10th of August next, export Tobacco, contrary to this Association, he shall be considered an approver of American Grievances, All alterations of these Resolutions that may be made by the General Congress, with the consent of the Delegates for Virginia, shall be binding upon the Colony, The Inhabitants of the Colony requested to make liberal Contributions for the relief of the distressed in Boston. [1774-08-01] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V1-p0686] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Instructions for the Deputies appointed to meet in General Congress on the part of the Colony of Virginia. [1774-08] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V1-p0689] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

A Summary View of the Rights of British America, set forth in some Resolutions intended for the inspection of the present Delegates of the People of Virginia, now in Convention. [1774-08] Jefferson, Thomas. [S4-V1-p0690] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address to the People of Pennsylvania. The opposition in the Colonies to the measures of Parliament condemned. The principal difficulties have been caused by the influence of the Smuggling interest in the Colonies. [1774-08-17] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p0718] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Allegiance is due to the King of Great Britain, as the rightful Sovereign of his Province, We claim no more than the rights of Englishmen, and it is our duty to maintain those rights, To be taxed without our own consent, is a gross violation of the Grand Charter of our Liberties, As the British Subjects in North America cannot be represented in Parliament, any Act of Parliament to Tax them is illegal, Duties imposed by Act of Parliament for raising a Revenue, illegal and oppressive, The cause in which the Inhabitants of Massachusetts now suffer, is the cause of every honest American, The Boston Port Act is a cruel infringement of the rights and privileges of the People of Boston, The Act of Parliament for regulating the Police of Massachusetts, is an infringement of the Charter of that Province, Trial by Juries of the vicinity, is the only lawful Inquest that can pass upon the life of a British Subject, No British or East India Goods permitted to be imported after the first of January, 1775. No Slaves to be imported after the first of November next, and no East India Tea to be used after the 10th of September next, No Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, or any other article, to be exported to Great Britain after the first of October, 1775, unless American Grievances are redressed before that time, Venders of Merchandise are not to raise the prices of their Goods in consequence of their Resolves for Non-Importation, The People of North Carolina will break off all Trade with any Colony on the Continent, which shall refuse to adopt and carry into execution such general plan as mya be agreed to in the Continental Congress, Deputies to the Congress appointed, The attempts made by the Minister upon the Town of Boston, a prelude to a general attack upon the rights of the other Colonies, Committees to be appointed in the several Counties, to see that the Resolutions of this Convention are properly observed, Instructions to the Deputies appointed to meet in General Congress on the part of North Carolina, Proceedings signed by the Members of the Convention. [1774-08-27] North-Carolina, Convention. [S4-V1-p0784] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address to the Delegates appointed to meet in the General Congress. [1774-08] Juba (pseudo.). [S4-V1-p0754] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Considerations on the propriety of adopting a general Non-Remittance, as one of the means of obtaining a repeal of the Boston Bills. [1774-10-01] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p0811] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proclamation of Governour Wright. Grants of Land in Georgia. [1774-10-24] Wright, James, Baronet, Governour of Georgia; Moodie, Thomas. [S4-V1-p0889] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Instructions to the English Gentlemen of the Committee of Montreal, from the Canadian Farmers. [1774-10] Canada, Farmers. [S4-V1-p0891] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The Association read and signed, Fac-simile of the Signatures to the Association, Memorial to the Inhabitants of the Colonies further considered. [1774-10-20] Continental Congress. [S4-V1-p0913] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Sheep not permitted to be sent from New-York to the West Indies. [1774-11-06] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p0963] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address of the Committee of Philadelphia to the Publick. [1774-11-30] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee; Benezet, John. [S4-V1-p1010] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of New-Castle County, Delaware. Approve the Continental Association. Recommend to the Inhabitants, from sixteen to fifty years of age, to form themselves into Military Companies. [1774-12-05] Delaware, New-Castle County Committee. [S4-V1-p1022] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of the Deputies appointed by the several Counties of the Province of Maryland, at the City of Annapolis, by adjournment, on the 8th of December, and continued till the 12th, Proceedings of the Continental Congress unanimously approved, Woollen, Linen, and Cotton Manufactures recommended, Advances on the prime cost of Goods regulated, Suits not to be brought in any case for any Person who violates the Continental Association, None but Members of Committees to meddle with, or determine, any question under the Association, Will support to the utmost of their power, any Colony where an attempt shall be made to carry into execution, by force, the assumed power of Parliament to Tax the Colonies, Inhabitants of the Province, from sixteen to fifty years of age, to form themselves into Military Companies, Ten thousand Pounds to be raised by the Counties for the purchase of Arms and Ammunition. Committee of Correspondence for the Province empowered to call a Meeting of the Convention on the 24th of April next, Contributions for the Suffering Poor of Boston to be continued, Committee of Correspondence appointed. Delegates to the next Continental Congress appointed, Colonies and Provinces generally requested to enter into such Resolutions as have been adopted by this Province for mutual defence and protection. [1774-12-08] Duckett, John; Duckett, John; Maryland, Convention. [S4-V1-p1031] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of the Freeholders of Prince William County, Virginia. Committee of Observation elected. Resolutions adopted on the 21st to enforce the Continental Association. [1774-12-09] Virginia, Prince George County Freeholders; Williams, Evan. [S4-V1-p1034] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of Henrico County, Virginia, Committee. The Resolutions of Congress to be considered by the Committee as the sole rule of their conduct, respecting their present engagements. Committee of Correspondence appointed. [1774-12-12] Beckley, John; Virginia, Henrico County Committee. [S4-V1-p1037] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Arthur Lee to Richard Henry Lee. [1774-12-13] Lee, Arthur. [S4-V1-p1040] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the People of Northampton County, Virginia, of the 30th August, to the Committee of Donations, at Boston. [1774-08-30] Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Donations. [S4-V1-p1044] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Reply from David Jeffries, of the Committee of Donations, Boston, of the 30th of September, to John Harmanson, and others, of Northampton, Virginia. [1774-09-30] Jeffries, David, Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Donations. [S4-V1-p1044] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Reasons assigned for not stating all the Grievances, ( Note). Debates on agreeing to the Association, (Note). [Undated] South-Carolina Provincial Congress. [S4-V1-p1111] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Regulations in relation to Rice, if the exportation shall be continued after the 10th of September next. Committees for exchanging Rice for other commodities. The raising of Cotton, Hemp, Flour, Wool, Barley, and Hops, recommended. Publick Storekeepers to be appointed to receive and sell Wool, and the Linen, Woollen, and Cotton Manufactures of the Colony. [1775-01-11] South-Carolina Provincial Congress. [S4-V1-p1114] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Berks County, in Pennsylvania. Recommend the Inhabitants of the County not to sell Sheep to Butchers, preserving the Wool, being of the greatest consequence. [1775-01-16] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p1144] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of the West India Merchants and Planters, in London, assembled to deliberate on the measures necessary to be pursued on this very important crisis. [1775-01-18] England, West India Merchants Society. [S4-V1-p1147] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Association entered into by the Provincial Congress of Georgia, assembled in Savannah, on the 18th of January, and subscribed by forty-five Deputies, on the 23d, when they chose Noble Wimberly Jones, Archibald Bullock, and John Houston, Delegates to represent that Colony in the Continental Congress to be held in May next. [1775-01-18] Georgia, Assembly. [S4-V1-p1158] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolution of the General Committee at Charlestown, South Carolina, of February 8th. Will have no Trade, Commerce, Dealings, or Intercourse, with the Colony of Georgia.. [1775-02-08] South-Carolina, Charlestown Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V1-p1163] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Montreal. Parties in Canada. [1775-01-18] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p1164] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of the Convention for the Province of Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia, January 23d, and continued by adjournments, until the 28th. List of the Members. The City Committee and each County Committee to have one vote in determining every question. Proceedings of the Continental Congress approved. Members of the Assembly to be instructed to procure a Law prohibiting the importation of Slaves into the Province. In case the Trade of Philadelphia shall be suspended, in the present struggle, assistance to be given to the Inhabitants of the City. Jan. 23, In case of opposition to any of the Committees, in carrying the Continental Association into effect, to be assisted by other Committees. If the British Covanent shall determine to effect a submission to the late Acts of Parliament by force, it is the indispensable duty of the People to resist, and at every hazard, to defend the Rights and Liberties of America. After the first of March next, no Sheep under four years old, to be killed. Setting up of Woolien Manufactures, in as many different branches as possible, recommended. Raising and manufacturing of Madder, Woad, and other Dye Stuffs, necessary in Woollen Manufactures, recommended. Extended cultivation of Flax and Hemp, recommended. Making Salt, Saltpetre, and Gunpowder, recommended. Manufacturing, of Copper, Tin, and Iron, and making Steel, Paper, Glass, and Wool Combs, recommended. Printing Types made at Germantown, recommended to be used by the Printers, in preference to imported Types. Cultivation of Barley for Malt Liquors recommended, to render less necessary the consumption of Foreign Liquors. American Manufactures to be used in preference to all others. Societies to be established, and Premiums awarded, for the encouragement of Manufactures. Any Manufacturer or Vendor of gods, who shall sell at extravagant prices, to be advertised as an enemy to his Country. Committee of Philadelphia appointed a Sanding Committee of Correspondence. [1775-01-23] Smith, Jonathan, B; Benezet, John; Johnson, Francis; Pennsylvania State Convention. [S4-V1-p1169] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Answer of the Governour of his Majesty's Province of Pennsylvania, in America, to the several heads of Inquiry, relative to the present state and condition of the said Province, transmitted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth, in his Letter of July 5, 1773. [1775-01-30] Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania. [S4-V1-p1194] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions adopted at a Meeting of the Delegates from the several Towns in the County of Fairfield, in Connecticut. [1775-02-14] Fairchild, Robert; Rowland, Andrew; Connecticut, Fairfield Committee. [S4-V1-p1236] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of the Committee of Observation for the Township of Hanover, Morris County, New-Jersey. Will enforce and comply with every Article of the Association of the General Continental Congress, will have no dealings with James Rivington, and will discountenance any Post-Rider, or Carrier, who shall bring his Pamphlets or Paper into the County. [1775-02-15] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p1240] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Message from the Lieutenant Governour. [1775-02-07] Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York. [S4-V1-p1288] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Statements of Imports and Exports of British Plantation Tobacco, ordered to be laid before the House. [1775-01-31] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1535] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Consideration of the Petition of Merchants, and others, of London, concerned in the Commerce of America, postponed to the 8th of March. Statements of Exports and Imports, ordered to be laid before the House. [1775-02-15] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1627] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Act for the better preservation of the Peace of Virginia, and preventing Unlawful and Treasonable Associations, passed by the Assembly of Virginia, on the 16th of April, 1684, presented, (Note). [1775-02-23] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1632] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

House in Committee, on the Bill. David Barclay, as Agent for the Committee of the North American Merchants, called in, to examine Witnesses in support of their Petition. Examination of Brook Watson. Examination of Stepheti Higginson. Examination of Jolm Lane. Examination of Seth Jenkins. [1775-02-28] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1638] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Motion made for the engrossment of the Bill. Debate -- Lord Howe. Mr. Charles Fox. Mr. Jenkinson. Mr. T. Townshend. Mr. Henry Dundas. Lord John Cavendish. Mr. Rice. Mr. Edmund Burke. Lord Advocate of Scotland. Question taken, and resolved in the Affirmative. Third reading ordered for Wednesday next. [1775-3-6] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1653] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Bill read the third time. Amendment offered by Mr. Hartley, to permit the Colonies to import Fuel and Provisions brought coastwise from any part of America. Debate--Mr. Hartley. Lord North. Mr. Burke. Lord Clare. Mr. T. Townsheed. Mr. Charles Fox. Governour Pownall. Mr. Henry Dundas. Question on the Amendment taken, and rejected. Bill Passed. [1775-03-08] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1657] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Bill read the second time. House refuse to permit Mr. Barclay to put Questions to the witnesses. Seth Jenkins examined. Brook Watson examined. Benjamin Lyster examined. George Davis examined. Molyneux Shuldham examined. Sir Hugh Palliner examined. [1775-03-15] House of Lords, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1662] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Seth Jenkins and Benjamin Lyster. [1775-03-15] House of Lords, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1663] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Motion by the Earl of Dartmouth, to commit the Bill. Debate--Marquis of Rockingham. Earl of Carlisle. Duke of Manchester. Earl of Denbigh. Duke of Manchester. Earl of Denbigh. Viscount Dudley. Lord Camden. Earl of Sandwich, (te,). Earl of Shelburne. Earl of Suffolk. Earl of Radnor. Earl of Suffolk. Earl of Radnor. Duke of Grafton. Marquis of Rockingham. Lord Camden. Question taken, Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House.. [1775-03-16] Legge, William, Earl of Dartmouth. [S4-V1-p1670] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

An Act to Restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New-Hampshire, and Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies, and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any Fishery on the Banks of New-Foundland, or other places therein mentioned under certain conditions and limitations.. [1775-03-21] House of Lords, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1691] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

George Walker examined. [1775-03-16] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1722] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

John Ellis examined. [1775-03-16] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1731] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Evidence summed up by Mr. Clover. [1775-03-16] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1733] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Mr. Barke's Resolutions for Conciliation with America. Debate -- Mr. Burke. Mr. Jenkinson. Lord Frederick Campbell. Question taken, and the Resolutions rejected. [1775-03-22] Edmund Burke. [S4-V1-p1745] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of his Majesty's loyal and dutiful Subjects, settled in the Province of Quebeck, presented by Lord Camden. [1775-05-17] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1823] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition and Memorial of his Majesty's ancient Subjects, Seigneurs, Freeholders, Merchants, Traders, and others, settled in his Majesty's Province of Quebeck, presented. [1775-05-18] House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain. [S4-V1-p1833] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Memorial in support of the requests made by his Majesty's most obedient and most faithful new Subjects in Canada. [Undated] Anonymous. [S4-V1-p1848] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of his Majesty's most loyal and dutiful, his ancient Subjects, settled in the Province of Quebec. [1775-01-18] Legge, William, Earl of Dartmouth. [S4-V1-p1849] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of Freeholders and other Inhabitants of New-Windsor, in Ulster County, New-York Declare their attachment to the King, to whom they would be deficient in duty if they submit to the power assumed by the Parliament. Approve and will abide by the Association of the Continental Congress. Condemn sundry Publications by James Rivington, a Ministerial hiring, and an enemy to his Country. [1775-03-14] New-York, New-Windsor Meeting. [S4-V2-p0131] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Enclosed extracts from the Minutes and Proceedings upon several Petitions and Memorials, relative to certain Lands in the Province of New-York, heretofore claimed by Mr. Van Rensselaer. [1773-03-15] Great Britain, Council of Trade and Plantations. [S4-V2-p0134] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Enclosed extracts from the Minutes and Proceedings upon several Petitions and Memorials, relative to certain Lands in the Province of New-York, heretofore claimed by Mr. Van Rensselaer. [1775-02-29] Great Britain, Council of Trade and Plantations. [S4-V2-p0136] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Plan for the encouragement of Arts and Manufactures reported, and unanimously agreed to, For the more effectually carrying this plan into execution, it is earnestly recommended to form Societies in different parts of the Colony, and to offer premiums. [1775-03-27] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V2-p0170] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Adam Babcock to Governour Trumbull, Requesting Permission to Ship Twelve Oxen to the West-Indies. [1775-04-20] Babcock, Adam. [S4-V2-p0371] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel John Fenton to the People of the County of Grafton, in New-Hampshire. [1775-04-26] Fenton, John, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0698] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Remonstrance. [1775-05-02] Pennsylvania Assembly. [S4-V2-p0453] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition from the Inhabitants of the Eastern parts of Massachusetts to the Provincial Congress, praying for assistance in Powder, Balls and Flints, that they may have wherewithal to defend themselves. [1775-05-12] Sawyer, John; Trussel, Jacob; Dodge, James; Watson, Samuel; Dodge, Abner; Allen, Nehemiah; Black, John; Black, Moses; Hale, Samuel; Trussel, Joshua; Obee, William; Clay, Jonathan; Hinkley, Ebenezer; Herrick, Andrew; Watson, Shadrach; Reed, William; Dougherty, Robert; Black, Daniel; Herrick, John; Fly, James; Cousons, Samuel; Herrick, Samuel; Bapson, Joseph; Gatchell, Stephen; Morgan, Cornelius; Robset; Samuel; Herrick, Joshua; Blasdel, Enoch; Eaton, Moses; Eaton, Ebenezer; Allen, Nathaniel; York, Benjamin; Goodwin, George; Herrick, Ebenezer; Dodge, John; Carter, John; Carter, James. [S4-V2-p0580] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Town Meeting. The Committee of the Town empowered to inquire touching any obnoxious persons who may flee to this Town, and none but the Committee shall have any concern with such Refugees. [1775-05-15] New-Hampshire, Portsmouth Town Meeting. [S4-V2-p0611] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Philadelphia Committee direct the republication of the Resolve prohibiting the killing of any Sheep under four years old. [1775-05-17] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence; Melcher, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0625] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Account of the commencement of Hostilities between Great Britain and America, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, by the Reverend Mr. William Gordon, of Roxbury, in a Letter to a Gentleman in England. [1775-05-17] Gordon, William. [S4-V2-p0625] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition from Major Andrew McClary, praying redress of sundry grievances, read, Letter from Colonel John Stark, requesting a supply of Fire-Arms, read, Recommendations to the Inhabitants to support good and wholesome Laws, to encourage all Religious worship, to encourage the Woollen and Linen Manufactory, and the making of Saltpetre, Committees of the several Towns requested to have a watchful eye over all persons who have used opprobrious expressions respecting the several Congresses, Committee from the Massachusetts Congress, introduced into the Convention, Selectmen of several Towns requested to furnish the Arms wanted by Colonel Stark,. [1775-05-19] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0651] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The Crisis, No. 8. On American affairs. [1775-05] . [The Crisis was a seditious British periodical, published in London in 1775 and 1776 (T. W. Shaw, publisher). 92 issues of the The Crisis appeared. They were probably written and printed by William Moore, who had edited two other seditious publications, including the Whisperer. Number 3 was publically burned. Numbers 1—9 were quickly reprinted in northern American towns (New York, Newport, Philadelphia, Norwich [1—6 only], Hartford [1—6 only], and New London [1 and 7 only]). A collection of numbers 1—28 appeared in New York in 1776. Information from WorldCat, the University of Georgia online catalogue (of Early American Imprints), the William Reese Company Catalogue online (item no longer available), and John Sainsbury, Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America, 1769—1782. (Kingston, Canada, 1987) 85—6, 99.] [S4-V2-p0677] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition from the Inhabitants of Machias to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-25] Longfellow, John; Clark, Abraham; Flinn, James; Boynton, Amos; Underwood, B. D. J.; Sinkler, John; Chaloner, William; Albee, William; Hill, Daniel; Longfellow, Nathan; Lyon, James; Elliott, James; Young, Timothy; Merrill, Bradbury; Millberry, Samuel; Watts, John; Barnum, Samuel; Colbroth, James; Farnsworth, Jonas; Hathaway, Eleazer; Foster, Ezekiel; Littlefield, Solomon; Libby, Jacob; Holway, Lodowick; How, Micajah; Gatchell, Benjamin; Young, Stephen; Bodwin, William; Chaloner, John; Gooch, Benjamin, Jr.; Brown, Jonathan; Clifford, Joseph; Sealey, Joseph, Jr.; Sealey, George; Chase, John; Chase, Ephraim; Rice, Beriah; Andrews, Israel. [S4-V2-p0708] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Cumberland County to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-25] Massachusetts, Cumberland County Committee of Correspondence; Preble, Jedediah. [S4-V2-p0709] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General Committee for Charlestown, South-Carolina, prohibit the exportation of Corn from the Province, and require eight thousand bushels of Salt, imported in the Brigantine Hannah, from Liverpool, to be forthwith sent back, the Salt having been shipped at Liverpool as Merchandise, with intent to put the American Association at defiance. [1775-05-26] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0710] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Prince George's County, Maryland, Committee. Thomas Bailly has committed a wilful violation of the Continental Association, in selling imported Salt, and John Baynes has violated the Continental and Provincial Association by killing a Lamb. [1775-05-27] Maryland, Prince George's County Committee of Observation; Beall, Josias. [S4-V2-p0718] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Account of the battle at Chelsea, Hog-Island, and c., in Massachusetts. [1775-05-27] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0719] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Selectmen of Partridgefield to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-27] Massachusetts, Partridgefield Selectmen; Stowell, Nathaniel. [S4-V2-p0721] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Live Stock to be taken from Hog-Island, Noddle-Island and Snake-Island, Persons escaping from Boston, to be received and protected. [1775-05-14] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0757] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Congress requested to take measures to secure the Stock on the Islands and Sea-Coasts, Thirty thousand Men considered necessary for the defence of the lives, liberty and property of the Americans, and not more than twenty-four thousand having been raised by the several Colonies, the matter is laid before the Congress. [1775-05-23] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; White, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0762] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Immediate removal of the Sheep and Hay from Noddle Island recommended. [1775-05-24] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0762] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

May 27, 1775. [1775-05-27] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0763] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

May 28, 1775. [1775-05-28] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0764] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Elisha Littenwell directed to remove from Chelsea to Cambridge the Cannon and Stores of a Schooner burned by our People. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0764] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Safety. [1775-05-10] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0796] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Selectmen of Hopkinton to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Hopkinton Selectmen. [S4-V2-p0853] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Stephen Nye, at Sandwich, to Nathaniel Freeman. Relation of Captain Lindsey's proceedings at the Islands. [1775-05-31] Nye, Stephen. [S4-V2-p0866] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Selectmen of the Town of Scarborough to the Massachusetts Congress. Their reasons for not choosing a Representative. [1775-05-31] Massachusetts, Scarborough Selectmen; Fogg, Reuben; Libbee, Peter; Fabyan, Joshua. [S4-V2-p0867] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Camp, near Boston, to a Gentleman in New-York. Account of the attack on the Provincials by the King's Troops at Noddle-Island and Hog-Island. [1775-06-01] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0874] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of the Committee of Observation for Anne Arundel County, Maryland. [1775-06-04] Maryland, Anne Arundel County Committee; Wallace, Charles; Duvall, G.. [S4-V2-p0903] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition of Elisha Nye. [1775-06-04] Nye, Elisha; Smith, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0907] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition of John Tucker, Jeremiah Robinson, Elisha Robinson and Ebenezer Meigs. [1775-05-31] Tucker, John; Robinson, Jeremiah; Robinson, Elisha; Meiggs, Ebenezer. [S4-V2-p0908] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Importation Report. [1775-06-07] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0921] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Committee of Belfast, and c., to the Massachusetts Congress, representing the defenceless condition of the Towns they represent. [1775-06-07] Massachusetts, Belfast, Majabigwaduce, and Benjamin's River Committee; Goldthwait, Thomas; Tufts, John; Buck, Jonathan; Moores, Edmund; Shute, Benjamin; Crary, Oliver. [S4-V2-p0930] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Abiathar Angel to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-09] Angel, Abiathar. [S4-V2-p0941] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Elisha Hewes, dated at Penobscot River, to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-09] Hewes, Elisha. [S4-V2-p0943] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address to the People of England, on the Disturbances in America. [1775-06-12] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0961] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Memorial of Henry Howell Williams to the Massachusetts Congress, setting forth the losses he has sustained from a number of armed Troops, commonly called Provincials, on Noddle-Island and Hog-Island, in Boston-Bay, and praying relief. [1775-06-12] Williams, Henry Howell. [S4-V2-p0971] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Benedict Arnold, Crown Point, to the Continental Congress. Has learned from a Messenger he sent among the Indians, that they are determined not to assist the King's Troops. Governour Carleton has not succeeded in raising more than twenty Canadians, if the Congress think proper to take possession of Montreal and Quebeck, it can be done with two thousand Men, it would be more advantageous to take and keep possession of Quebeck than to rebuild Ticonderoga. [1775-06-13] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0976] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Governour Browne's reasons, as presented to the King, for an immediate Civil Government in the British Dominions adjoining to the River Mississippi, in North America. [1775-06] Browne, Montford. [S4-V2-p0993] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Mr. John Durade. [1770-02] Durade, John. [S4-V2-p0994] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

To Governour Browne. [1769-1770?] Rouchon, Pierre; Lagautrais, H.; Metulick, Gerome; Durade, Jaques; Durade, Jean; D'Oraioire; Bernard, E.; Timmermans; Rouchon, P.; Lagoutry; Bichie; La Combs, Vincent; Du Faud, Dennis; Boulomois, B.; Milon, Joseph; Cornillieu, Jean Baptiste; Fourdas; Blanchard, Charles; Lagoutrey; Monsanto; Line; Milhet, D.; Vincent, J.; Delapommeraye, Locquet; Corona, Vicenzo; Aostion, P.; Olis, Baptiste; Hochoit, P.; Monsanto, J.. [S4-V2-p0995] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Extract of a Report Made to Government by Engineer Cambell. [1769-1770?] Cambell. [S4-V2-p0995] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Joseph Johnson, a licensed Preacher of the Gospel amongst seven different Tribes of New-England Indians, and the Oneidas, to the Provincial Congress of New-York. [1775-06-21] Johnson, Joseph (Mohegan). [S4-V2-p1047] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Reverend Samuel Webster to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-06-21] Webster, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1055] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition to the Massachusetts Congress, from the Selectmen, Officers of the Militia, and Committee of Correspondence of Manchester. The Town being greatly exposed to their merciless enemies, they request permission to raise a Company of Men on the Provincial establishment, to be kept there for their security and defence. [1775-06-23] Massachusetts, Manchester Selectmen; Tewxbury, John; Woodbury, Andrew; Coupt, Eleazer; Massachusetts, Manchester Militia Officers; Lee, John; Marsters, Andrew; Foster, Samuel; Craft, Eleazer; Massachusetts, Manchester Committee of Correspondence; Brown, Jonathan; Whipple, Joseph. [S4-V2-p1068] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-26] Massachusetts, Plymouth Committee of Correspondence; Croswell, Andrew; Bradford, Gamaliel, Jr.; Gray, John. [S4-V2-p1108] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Philadelphia Committee direct that no Sheep be killed under four years of age, in compliance with the Resolves of the Provincial Convention. [1775-06-29] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p1132] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of several persons in that part of the County of Augusta which lies West of the Alleghany Mountains, presented by Mr. Bland, one of the Delegates to the Continental Congress, where it was first presented, Commissioners appointed to ratify the Treaty of Peace between this Colony and the Indians. [1775-06-14] Virginia, House of Burgesses. [S4-V2-p1208] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

June 23, 1775. [1775-06-23] . [S4-V2-p1237] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Inhabitants of this Colony directed not to kill any Lamb until the first day of November next, Motion by Mr. Morris, that no Sheep be killed until the first day of November next. [1775-06-23] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p1313] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Orders. [1775-06-28] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p1328] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Killing Lambs prohibited until the first of August next. [1775-06-29] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p1331] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee appointed to consider the exposed condition of the Sea-Coast, Persons living in places exposed to be ravaged or plundered are advised to remove their Hay and Stock out of the reach of our implacable enemies. [1775-06-03] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1386] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Governour and Company of Connecticut. [1775-07-01] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1470] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Killing of Sheep or Lambs prohibited, excepting in cases of absolute necessity, till the further order of this Congress. [1775-07-13] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1514] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Congress of Massachusetts to the Assembly of Connecticut, requesting the embargo in Connecticut may be taken off, so far as to permit the Inhabitants of the eastern parts of Massachusetts to purchase Provisions, they being reduced to the alternative of starving or supplying the Ministerial Troops, either of which they deprecate. [1775-07-01] Connecticut Assembly. [S4-V2-p1470] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Schuyler to the Continental Congress. The People called Green Mountain Boys are the inhabitants of the north eastern parts of Albany County, Charlotte County, and the New-Hampshire Grants, occupying the country from near Albany to forty or fifty miles north of Crown Point, but it has been so lately settled that not more than five hundred Men can be raised there. The Troops at his command are inadequate to the enterprise he is ordered to undertake, and which he is not at liberty to desist from without orders to the contrary. [1775-07-03] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1535] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Order of the Day read, and considered, Resolved unanimously, that this Province will adopt and carry into execution all and singular the measures and recommendations of the late Continental Congress, Other Resolutions regulating the conduct of the Colony. [1775-07-06] Georgia, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1545] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Burnet Miller to the New-York Congress. Requesting some Troops may be stationed at Montauk, for their protection and that of their stock, which is very large, and much exposed to the ravages of our unnatural enemy. [1775-07-05] Miller, Burnet. [S4-V2-p1577] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the Selectmen and Committee of Safety for Harpswell to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-07-08] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1612] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress. [1775-07-14] Washington, George. [S4-V2-p1659] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Burnet Miller, Chairman of the Committee of Southampton, dated July 5. [1775-07-05] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p1781] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committee of Correspondence for Easthampton and Southold. [1775-07-21] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p1809] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the President of the Continental Congress, dated August 1, 1775. [1775-08-01] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p1818] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address to the Assembly of Jamaica. [1775-07-25] Continental Congress. [S4-V2-p1890] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition of John Shatforth. [1775-08-02] Shatforth, John; Schuyler, Philip; MacPherson, John. [S4-V3-p0013] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from George Munro to Messrs. Bruce and Ritchie, dated June 18. [1775-06-18] Munro, George. [S4-V3-p0052] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the Council of Massachusetts, complaining of the number of Soldiers and Non-Commissioned Officers who absent themselves from duty, and requests measures may be taken by the General Court to correct the evil. [1775-08-07] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p0059] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Phineas Fanning to the New-York Congress. [1775-08-08] Fanning, Phineas, Colonel. [S4-V3-p0068] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Account of the plundering of Fisher's, Gardiner's, Plumb, and Block Islands, by the British. [1775-08-16] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p0088] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Archibald Campbell and William Lilburn, praying a remission of the sentence against them by the Committee for St. Mary's County, presented and read. [1775-07-17] Campbell, Archibald; Liburn, William; Maryland, Convention; Tilghman, Matthew. [S4-V3-p0122] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of the Committee of St. Mary's Country on the complaints against Campbell and Lilburn, presented and read. [1775-07-18] Maryland, St. Mary's County General Committee; Bowers, Timothy; Maryland, Convention; Tilghman, Matthew. [S4-V3-p0124] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolve of the December Convention, which prohibits the killings of Lamb, repealed. [1775-08-03] Maryland, Convention; Tilghman, Matthew. [S4-V3-p0104] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolution on the Killing of Lambs. [1775-08-14] Maryland, Convention; Tilghman, Matthew. [S4-V3-p0117] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Wooster to Governour Trumbull: He has removed the Cattle from Plumb Island, and will tomorrow go to Gardiner's Island. James Lyon, a Church-of-England Clergyman, the main spring of all the Tories on the east end of Long-Island, has been arrested. [1775-08-14] Wooster, David, General. [S4-V3-p0134] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke, on the expedition to Bermuda for Powder, approves of and recommends that it be undertaken immediately. [1775-08-14] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p0137] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler: In great want of Lead for the Army, does not expect any from the Southward, and has sent for some of the stock found at Ticonderoga when it fell into our hands. [1775-08-15] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p0144] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to General Wooster. [1775-08-16] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0532] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee for Fairfield, Connecticut, declare any person an enemy to his Country who shall export any Flaxseed out of the Colony, until further advice from the Continental Congress. [1775-08-16] Connecticut, Fairfield Committee of Inspection; Burr, Thaddeus. [S4-V3-p0146] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Two hundred and fifty Men to be sent to remove the neat Cattle and Sheep from New-Shoreham, at the risk and expense of the Colony. [1775-08-21] Rhode-Island, General Assembly; Bowler, Metcalf. [S4-V3-p0226] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

All the Gunpowder imported before 1st day of April next to be purchased by the Colony, Committee of Safety appointed to act on any emergency during the recess of the Assembly, Officers of the Minute-Men in the Town of Smithfield, Officers of the Militia appointed, Two Row-Gallies to be built forthwith, for the protection and defence of the Colony, Post-Riders appointed, and Mail Routes established, Delegates in the Continental Congress instructed to use their whole influence for building and equipping an American Fleet, Report of the Proceedings of the continental Congress, presented by Mr. Ward, one of the Delegates, accepted and approved, The Continental Currency made a lawful tender, in all payments whatsoever, whether of a publick or private nature, Bounty of three Shillings a pound to be paid on every pound of Saltpetre made in the Colony by the 26th of August, 1776, Pay of Abraham Whipple, Captain of the Colony Sloop, fixed at nine Pounds a month. [1775-08-21] Rhode-Island, General Assembly; Bowler, Metcalf. [S4-V3-p0227] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to remove the Cattle and Sheep from all the Islands, except Rhode-Island and Block-Island, Persons who shall refuse to receive the Paper Money of the Continental Congress, or of any of the colonies, in payment for any debt, duty, or demand, of a pecunicary nature, to be considered enemies to the Country, with whom there is to be no communication. [1775-08-21] Rhode-Island, General Assembly; Bowler, Metcalf. [S4-V3-p0233] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

York County (Pennsylvania) Committee direct that all persons in the County detected purchasing Sheep under four years old, to be killled, shall be treated as enemies to their Country. [1775-08-22] Pennsylvania, York County Committee of Correspondence; Armor, Thomas. [S4-V3-p0235] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Suffolk County (New-York) Committee to the Provincial Congress, representing their defenceless condition, and requesting some Troops may remain there. [1775-08-22] New-York, Suffolk County Committee; Smith, William. [S4-V3-p0239] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee purchase and fit out the Spy-Vessel. [1775-08-14] Connecticut, Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p0267] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition from the Town of Bristol. [1775-07-18] Massachusetts, Bristol Committee; Brackett, Thomas; Thompson, Thomas; Ottes, Samuel; Turner, Cornelius; Turner, Briggs; Boyd, Thomas; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0287] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Message from the Council, recommending an increase of the Forces in the Eastern parts of the Colony, to prevent the enemy from plundering the inhabitants. [1775-07-28] Otis, James; Sever, William; Greenleaf, Benjamin; Spooner, Walter; Cushing, Caleb; Winthrop, John; Foster, Jedediah; Prescott, James; Taylor, Eldad; Lincoln, Benjamin; Farley, Michael; Palmer, Joseph; Holten, Samuel; Fisher, Jabez; Gill, Moses; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0288] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Pettion from the Town of Gloucester, read and rejected, Committee to wait on General Washington, and know of him if he can send a detachment to the Eastern parts of the Colony, to prevent the enemy from ravaging the Country, and plundering the inhabitants. [1775-07-29] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0290] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee on the situation of the Eastern parts of the Colony, read and accepted. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0302] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the Committee of the Town of Camden, in Penobscot-Bay, read and committed. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, Camden Committee; Ogier, Abraham; Ballard, John; Minot, James; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0305] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Supplies directed to furnish to the Town of Camden, two hundred bushels of Indian Corn, Committee to take care of the Poor of Boston, who may go to Salem. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0308] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washinton, relative to the Soldiers who absent themselves from the Army. [1775-08-07] Washington, George; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0314] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee on a Memorial of William Hunt, relative to sundry articles which belonged to Lady Frankland, Committee on a Resolve of Congress, relative to killing Sheep and Lambs, Forty Thousand Pounds to be raised on the Polls and Estates of the Inhabitants of the Colony, Committee to consider in what manner the Taxes shall be laid. [1775-08-08] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0315] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committees on Petitions from Machias and from Falmouth, Resolve relating to the killing of Sheep. [1775-08-14] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0328] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Exportation of Provisions of any kind prohibited, after the 5th day of August next. [1775-07-24] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V3-p0369] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committees in the several Counties requested to purchase all the Salpetre and Sulphur which may be had. [1775-07-29] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V3-p0372] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions on the Petition and Remonstrance of the Merchants of Norfolk, Comittees for each County in the Colony, except Accomack and Northampton, requested to appoint Officers and raise a Company of fifty men, Five hundred effective Men to be sent for the protection of Norfolk and Portsmouth. [1775-08-04] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V3-p0373] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Thanks to the Deputies of this Colony in the late Continental Congress, Seven Deputies elected to represent the Colony in the General Congress for one year. [1775-08-11] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V3-p0378] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committee of Suffolk County. [1775-08-25] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0554] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Samuel Burling. [1775-08-28] Burling, Samuel. [S4-V3-p0445] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letters from sundry Merchants in New-York to the Provincial Congress, for permission to load Vessels for foreign ports. [1775-08-28] Stewart, James; Stewart, Alexander. [S4-V3-p0445] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letters from sundry Merchants in New-York to the Provincial Congress, for permission to load Vessels for foreign ports. [1775-08-28] Pearschfield, V.. [S4-V3-p0445] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from sundry Merchants in New-York to the Provincial Congress, for permission to load Vessels for foreign ports. [1775-08-28] Buchannan, Walter; Buchannan, Thomas. [S4-V3-p0446] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from sundry Merchants in New-York to the Provincial Congress, for permission to load Vessels for foreign ports. [1775-08-28] Beekman, G. W.; Beekman, D.; Lowe, C. P.. [S4-V3-p0447] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letters from sundry Merchants in New-York to the Provincial Congress, for permission to load Vessels for foreign ports. [1775-08-29] Malcom, William. [S4-V3-p0447] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letters from sundry Merchants in New-York to the Provincial Congress, for permission to load Vessels for foreign ports. [1775-08-29] De Peyster, Abraham. [S4-V3-p0447] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Cooke to General Washington. The Armed Vessel of the Colony could not be sent on the expedition to Bermuda without the authority of the Assembly, and, from the nature of the business, deemed it not advisable to lay it before them, a Committee will act upon it to-day. A Vessel with Powder, and c., has arrived. [1775-08-30] Cooke, Nicholas, Governour of Rhode-Island. [S4-V3-p0461] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

James Livingston to General Schuyler. [1775-08] Livingston, James. [S4-V3-p0468] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to General Wooster, requesting him to send four Companies for the protection of the east end of Long-Island. [1775-08-07] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V3-p0523] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Colonel Fanning, ordering him to take command of the Militia at the east end of Long-Island. [1775-08-07] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0523] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committee of Easthampton. [1775-08-07] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0523] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Flaxseed may be exported until the 10th of September next. [1775-08-12] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0529] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to General Wooster. [1775-08-16] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0532] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter received from General Washington, informing them that a Vessel from New-York, with Provisions, had arrived at Boston, General Committee of New-York requested to investigate the subject. [1775-08-08] Washington, George; New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0536] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to wait on Governour Tryon, and know if he has any intelligence of General Gage's intention to remove the Troops to this Colony. [1775-08-21] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0539] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions, requiring the Oath of Screcy, reconsidered. [1775-08-23] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0549] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Suffolk County, requesting permission for the three Companies to remain there. [1775-08-24] New-York, Suffolk County Committee; Smith, William; New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0551] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of Captain Melancton Lawrence, before a Committee of the Congress. [1775-08-24] New-York, Congress; Lawrence, Melancton, Captain. [S4-V3-p0551] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committee of Suffolk County, recommending to them measures for their defence and the protection of their property. [1775-08-25] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0554] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

No Bread, Flour, Beef, or Pork, to be shipped or laden hereafter, without an express permission from Congress or Committee of Safety, Permission granted for sundry Vessels to sail for foreign Ports. [1775-08-28] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0559] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition of Captain Charles De Kay, of the Sloop Sally. [1775-08-31] De Kay, Charles, Captain. [S4-V3-p0623] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition of Thomas Millroy, of the Isle-of-Man, Mariner. [1775-08-31] Millroy, Thomas. [S4-V3-p0623] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition of Richard Jenkins, Master of the Sloop Elizabeth. [1775-08-30] Jenking, Richard. [S4-V3-p0624] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from David Burger to the New-York Congress. Some people on Staten Island furnish Provisions for the British, at Boston. [1775-09-01] Burger, David. [S4-V3-p0624] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke. Proposes to him to seize the next Packet, which is hourly expected from England. [1775-09-06] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p0653] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Providence, Rhode Island, in Town-Meeting disapprove of the exportation of Flaxseed, till a general exportation of that article takes place throughout the United Colonies, Protest against the vote, by Samuel Nightingale. [1775-09-07] Rhode-Island, Providence Town Meeting. [S4-V3-p0661] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Tonyn to General Gage, giving him an account of the state of affairs in Florida, Georgia, and South-Carolina. [1775-09-14] Tonyn, Patrick, Governour of East Florida. [S4-V3-p0703] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address from James Stewart to the People of Virginia. [1775-09-15] Stewart, James. [S4-V3-p0716] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Wetherhead to the New-York Committee of Safety, denying the charges against him, that he had informed Captain Vandeput of the intention to remove the Guns from the Battery on the 23rd of August, and of purchasing Provisions to be sent to Boston. [1775-09-17] Wetherhead, John. [S4-V3-p0724] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions adopted at a Meeting of the Merchants of Bristol. [1775-09-27] England, Bristol Merchants. [S4-V3-p0813] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from George Frederick Mulcaster to Gen. Grant, giving the general state of affairs in Florida, Georgia, and South-Carolina. [1775-09-29] Mulcaster, Frederick George. [S4-V3-p0834] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committeee of Albany, dated August 29th. They can give but little relief to Colonel Cortlandt. The barracks are filled with Indians, and the barns with crops, and they are drained of their ammunition. [1775-08-29] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p0877] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Mr. Holt's paragraph, the certificate of the Committee, and the remarks of Mr. Holt. [1775-09-07] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p0884] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Southampton and Easthampton. [1775-09-13] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p0891] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Safety, in reply. [1775-09-13] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p0892] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee for the County of Providence, Rhode-Island, adopt regulations for the transportation of Provisions. [1775-10-06] Rhode-Island, Providence Committee. [S4-V3-p0974] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Rehoboth prohibit the passing through that Town, to Newport, any Provisions, without evidence that the Provisions are for the use of the inhabitants, and not for the enemies of America. [1775-10-05] Massachusetts, Rehoboth Committee of Inspection. [S4-V3-p0976] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of North-Kingston, Rhode-Island, declare Stephen Boyer, of that Town, an enemy to American Liberty. [1775-10-07] Rhode-Island, North-Kingston Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V3-p0983] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from a Gentleman in Bristol, Rhode-Island, to his friend in New-York, giving a full account of the attack upon that place by Captain Wallace, with three British Men-of-War, one Bomb-Ketch, and other Armed Vessels. [1775-10-12] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p0990] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address to the People of Pennsylvania, on Independence, and a separation from Great Britain. [1775-10-11] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1013] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Assembly meets at New-Haven, List of the Members, William W. Williams, Speaker, and Richard Law, Clerk, Embargo laid on the exportation of Provisions to continue till the first day of June next, The Troops sent into New-York, and those employed against the Ministerial Forces in Canada, are subject to the Rules and Regulations of the Army of the United Colonies, Delegates appointed to the General Congress for one year, Committee to purchase all the Fire-Arms made in the Colony before the first day of May next. [1775-10-11] Connecticut Assembly. [S4-V3-p1017] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Daniel Gray, of Stamford, and Stephen Thorp, of Fairfield, each permitted to load a Sloop with Rye and Indian Corn for the Inhabitants of Falmouth, Machias, and Sheepcut, Leonard Dusau permitted to load his Vessel with Lumber, for the West-Indies, on condition that he shall procure and return unto this Continent such Military Stores as he can obtain, that may be useful and necessary. [1775-10-11] Connecticut Assembly. [S4-V3-p1024] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Answer of General Sullivan on the Questions propounded by General Washington on the 5th of October. [1775-10-08] Sullivan, John, General. [S4-V3-p1043] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Orders by General Washington, Oct. 7. [1775-10-07] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p1048] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Hunter to the New-York Congress, presenting a plan for establishing a Linen Manufactory. [1775-10] Hunter, John. [S4-V3-p1081] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to General Washington. After consulting with the Committee of Portsmouth, they have determined to forward the whole cargo of Flour taken in the Ship Prince. [1775-10-18] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p1099] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Virginia Committee of Safety. [1775-10-19] Virginia, Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p1102] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Greene to Governour Ward. [1775-10-23] Greene, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V3-p1145] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Boston to a Gentleman in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Americans cannot succeed in Manufactures in articles of the greatest necessity to themselves, and for which their country is well adapted. They will suffer more by the Non-Importation than Great Britain. The stopping of Salt, alone, will prove their ruin. In less than two years they will be obliged to accept of any terms prescribed by Great Britain. [1775-10-23] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1147] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the New-York Provincial Congress, from their Delegates in the Continental Congress, enclosing a Resolution of the same date, to encourage the importation of Arms and Ammunition, which they request may be kept as secret as possible. [1775-10-26] New-York Delegates, Continental Congress. [S4-V3-p1315] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address to the Inhabitants of the American Colonies, No. 1. [1775-10-27] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1212] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Cooke to General Washington. [1775-10-28] Cooke, Nicholas, Governour of Rhode-Island. [S4-V3-p1246] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Philadelphia to a Gentlemen in London. Preparations are making for defence, and the people are in high spirits. [1775-10-30] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1253] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the Assembly of Massachusetts-Bay. A Battery may be erected to the great advantage and security of Cape Anne, but the small stock of Artillery belonging to the Army prevents him from supplying materials for the purpose. [1775-10-30] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p1255] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Permission to Abner Briggs, to take one hundred and eighty barrels of Flour to Falmouth, for the use of the people of Nantucket. [1775-10-11] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p1275] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Extracts of Letters from London, enclosed in the preceding Letter. [1775-08-07] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1282] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Delegates at the Continental Congress, dated October 26. The Congress has recommended the exportation of Provisions to the West-Indies, for procuring Arms, Ammunition, Sulphur, and Saltpetre. [1775-11-02] New-York Delegates, Continental Congress. [S4-V3-p1315] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the Assembly of Massachusetts. If wood is not supplied immediately, the Army must inevitably disperse. [1775-11-02] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p1335] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from an Officer at La Prairie. Distribution of the Army in Canada. The Canadians, on this side of the St. Lawrence, generally friendly, the reduction of St. John's will make them more decided. [1775-11-03] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Extracts of Letters received in England from Quebeck. State of affairs there. [1775-11-09] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1418] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee on the conduct of Jerathmeel Bowers, presented, debated, and dismissed. [1775-09-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p1436] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Braintree. [1775-09-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p1442] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Edgartown. [1775-09-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p1442] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report on disposing of the Estates of Refugees. [1775-11-09] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p1511] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to consider of a meet establishment for the General Officers who have been in the service of the Colony, Committee to bring in a Resolve empowering all persons to make captures of Vessels of the enemy, Committee of the Town of Chatham directed to keep possission of the Schooner Williams, belonging to John Price, a Tory of the first magnitude, Relief ordered for the inhabitants of Falmouth, many of whom are reduced to the greatest distress and want by the late unparalleled inhumanity of the British Forces, in burning the greatest part of the buildings of that Town. [1775-11-10] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p1512] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Robert H. Harrison to Col. Loammi Baldwin. [1775-11-12] Harrison, Robert H.. [S4-V3-p1539] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Farmer. [1775-11-23] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1652] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General Orders, November 20, 1775. [1775-11-20] Washington, George. [S4-V3-p1699] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address to the Inhabitants of the American Colonies, No. 5. [1775-11-30] Anonymous. [S4-V3-p1738] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolves of Congress. [1775-11-22] Pennsylvania, Committee of Safety. [S4-V3-p1846] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

One hundred and sixty thousand Dollars to be paid to Connecticut for Supplies issued by that Colony for the service of the United Colonies. [1775-09-27] Continental Congress. [S4-V3-p1885] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to consider the Treaty held with the Indians at Albany, by the Indian Commissioners of the Northern Department, Further Instructions to the Committed appointed to proceed to Ticonderoga and Canada, Rev. Samuel Kirkland continued in his Mission among the Indians. [1775-11-11] Continental Congress. [S4-V3-p1917] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee of the Whole on the several Petitions from the Island of Bermuda, considered and agreed to, Supplied of Provisions to be furnished annually to the inhabitants of Bermuda, The supplies to be paid for in Salt, Proportions of the supplies front the several Colonies. [1775-11-22] Continental Congress. [S4-V3-p1922] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report on the Petition of Thomas Jenkins, of Nantucket, considered and agreed to. [1775-12-11] Continental Congress. [S4-V3-p1948] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Captain Mulcaster to General Grant, giving a general view of the state of affairs at the South. [1775-10-03] Mulcaster, Frederick George. [S4-V4-p0329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Moultrie to General Grant: St. Augustine is already too weak, no more Troops should be taken from it, it is now the best and only communication between Great Britain and our Red Brothers. [1775-10-04] Moultrie, John, Lieutenant-Governour of East-Florida. [S4-V4-p0336] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Alexander Skinner to Brigadier General Grant. [1775-09-21] Skinner, Alexander. [S4-V4-p0329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Alexander Skinner to General Grant: The St. Lawrence has arrived at St. Augustine, if she had been sooner on the station, one hundred barrels of the King's Powder, taken out of Lofthouse, by a Carolina Pirate, would have been saved. [1775-10-05] Skinner, Alexander. [S4-V4-p0329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Captain Thornborough, informing him of the orders of the Congress to the officer commanding at Fort Johnson. [1775-11-10] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Drayton, William Henry. [S4-V4-p0045] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ordinances for raising an additional number of Forces for the defence and protection of the Colony, and for establishing a mode of making Tobacco payments during the discontinuance of the Tobacco Law, presented and read the first time. [1775-12-21] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0092] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Archibald Govan, praying that, as he has not infringed the Association, he may not be made to suffer for the unfriendly Letters found on board his Vessel. [1775-12-21] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0093] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Same Ordinance further considered. [1775-12-27] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0098] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Mary Durley. [1776-01-03] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0105] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Archibald Govan. [1776-01-03] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0107] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Stephen Pierce. [1776-01-03] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0107] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The propriety of opening the American Ports to all willing to trade with us, Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies, excepted, recommended to the consideration of the Continental Congress, All Public Money, except his Majesty's Quitrents, now in the hands of Collectors, and other Officers, to be paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the Colony Adjourned to April 2, to meet in Williamsburgh. [1776-1-20] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0130] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

For establishing Tobacco Payments during the discontinuance of the Inspection Law. [1776-01-20] Virginia, Convention. [S4-V4-p0142] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Moylan to Colonel Wentworth: Instructions in regard to captured Vessels. [1775-12-01] Moylan, Stephen, Colonel. [S4-V4-p0150] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Council of Massachusetts, enclosing Permits, and from the Committees of Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Suffolk County, New-York, to Captain Fanning, of Nantucket, to transport Provisions to that Island. [1775-10-19] Massachusetts, Falmouth Committee of Correspondence; Shiverick, Nathaniel; Moore, Ret.. [S4-V4-p0176] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Council of Massachusetts, enclosing Permits, and from the Committees of Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Suffolk County, New-York, to Captain Fanning, of Nantucket, to transport Provisions to that Island. [1775-11-07] New-York, Suffolk County Committee; Smith, William. [S4-V4-p0176] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from a Gentleman in Henrico to his friend in Williamsburgh, explaining the condition of the People in the lower Counties, who are suffering for want of Salt. [1775-12-06] Anonymous. [S4-V4-p0199] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Richard Henry Lee to General Washington: Has reason to believe the inprovements on the Kenhawa have not been destroyed by the Indians. [1775-12-06] Lee, Richard Henry. [S4-V4-p0201] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Waite to John Adams, with a statement of the losses he sustained when Falmouth was burnt by the Ministerial Troops and Navy. [1775-12-07] Waite, John. [S4-V4-p0215] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull. [1775-12-11] Washington, George. [S4-V4-p0238] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Speech of John Derk Van der Capellan, upon the request of the King of Great Britain for the loan of the Scotch Brigade, in the Assembly of the States of Overyssell, and inserted in the Records of that Province. [1775-12-15] Van der Capellen, Johan Derk. [S4-V4-p0285] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke, requesting him to have removed, without delay, the Cattle from Block Island, to prevent their falling into the hands of the Ministerial Army, now in great want of fresh Provisions. [1775-12-17] Washington, George. [S4-V4-p0298] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Alexander Skinner to Brigadier General Grant. [1775-09-21] Skinner, Alexander. [S4-V4-p0329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Alexander Skinner to General Grant: The St. Lawrence has arrived at St. Augustine, if she had been sooner on the station, one hundred barrels of the King's Powder, taken out of Lofthouse, by a Carolina Pirate, would have been saved. [1775-10-05] Skinner, Alexander. [S4-V4-p0329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Captain Mulcaster to General Grant, giving a general view of the state of affairs at the South. [1775-10-03] Mulcaster, Frederick George. [S4-V4-p0329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Moultrie to General Grant: St. Augustine is already too weak, no more Troops should be taken from it, it is now the best and only communication between Great Britain and our Red Brothers. [1775-10-04] Moultrie, John, Lieutenant-Governour of East-Florida. [S4-V4-p0336] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Account. [1775-12-20] Greenough, Thomas; Whiting, John. [S4-V4-p0365] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Affidavit of Samuel Nostran. [1775-12-11] Nostran, Samuel; New-York, Congress. [S4-V4-p0405] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of the Continental Congress of the 22d of November relative to the Island of Bermuda Read and filed. [1775-11-22] Continental Congress; New-York, Congress. [S4-V4-p0410] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee appointed to employ two or more Vessels for a voyage to Europe, read and adopted. [1775-12-19] New-York, Congress. [S4-V4-p0424] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address of a British American to the Inhabitants of the United Colonies: Advises an immediate declaration of Independence. [1775-12-28] A British American (pseudo.). [S4-V4-p0470] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Thomas McCobb. [1775-01-02] Maryland, Convention. [S4-V4-p0729] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address of an American, recommending the opening the Ports of the Colonies to all Nations except the British. [1776-01-20] An American (pseudo.). [S4-V4-p0779] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from New-York Delegates in Congress to Committee of Safety. [1776-01-30] New-York Delegates, Continental Congress. [S4-V4-p1097] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Connecticut Council of Safety: Proceedings from February 23. [1776-02-23] Connecticut, Council of Safety. [S4-V4-p0971] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from William Smith to General Howe: New-York is the only spot in America for carrying on the war with effect against the Rebels, and it is advisable to send an Army through the Sound, between Connecticut and Long-Island. [1776-02-11] Smith, William. [S4-V4-p1000] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Continental Congress. [1776-01-20] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V4-p1060] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of the Committee of Poundridge, in Westchester, prohibiting the transportation, by land or water, of any Cattle to New-York, disapproved. [1776-01-24] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V4-p1078] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

John Flood, Joseph Purdy, William Sutton,and William Armstrong, severally examined about spiking the Cannon, and discharged. [1776-01-27] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V4-p1083] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Delegates in Congress, dated January 30: The privilege asked for by Mr. Foster cannot he granted. [1776-02-01] New-York Delegates, Continental Congress. [S4-V4-p1097] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Application from the City Committee for information as to the exportation of Flaxseed. [1776-02-03] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V4-p1102] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committee of Elizabethtown, New-Jersey, requesting them to send Militia for the protection of Staten-Island. [1776-02-11] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V4-p1123] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Nicholas Lord permitted to load two Vessels with Flaxseed and Lumber. Colonel Curtenius directed to supply General Lee with Provisions. [1776-02-12] New-York Committee of Safety. [S4-V4-p1123] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from P. Begozzat to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, offering his services in procuring what may be required for the Colonies at Martinleo. [1776-02-14] Begozzat, P. [S4-V4-p1134] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Moses Hazen to the President of Congress, with a Statement of his losses in Property, etc. [1776-02-17] Hazen, Moses. [S4-V4-p1187] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Moses Hazen to the President of Congress, with a Statement of his losses in Property, etc. [1776-02-17] Hazen, Moses. [S4-V4-p1187] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Hazen. [1776-02-17] Hazen, Moses. [S4-V4-p1188] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Josiah Quincy to General Washington, representing the exposed condition of Braintree, and requesting a guard may be stationed at Squantum for their protection. [1776-02-19] Quincy, Josiah. [S4-V4-p1204] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Lord Stirling, informing them that the British Vessels-of-War at New-York take every Provision Vessel coming from New-Jersey. [1776-02-20] Stirling, Lord. [S4-V4-p1597] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to consider of some method by which the Colony may be supplied with Wood, Instructions to, the Committee on Muster-Rolls. [1775-12-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V4-p1360] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of William Henshaw, praying allowance for his services as Adjutant-General, Further measures for procuring Hay fox the Army adopted, General Washington furnished with a copy of the Resolve for lending him the sum of fifty-thousand Pounds, Report of the Committee relative to the want of Fire-Arms for the Army, read and adopted, and ordered to be communicated to General Washington, Officers for the Sea-Coast Forces elected. [1776-01-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V4-p1393] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Lord Stirling, informing them that the British Vessels-of-War at New-York take every Provision Vessel coming from New-Jersey. [1776-02-21] New-Jersey, Provincial Congress. [S4-V4-p1597] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ordinance for striking the sum of fifty thousand rounds in Bills of Credit, for the purposes therein mentioned. [1776-03-02] New-Jersey, Provincial Congress. [S4-V4-p1611] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Association against the killing of Mutton, drawn up, to be signed by the Butchers. [1775-01-30] Maryland, Baltimore Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V4-p1703] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Permission granted to send eight quarters of Beef and twelve Sheep to Annapolis, for the use of the Inhabitants of that City, during the sitting of the Convention. [1775-12-04] Maryland, Baltimore Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V4-p1732] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Colonel Heard, thanking him for his services, and relieving him from duty on Staten-Island. [1776-02-17] New-York, Congress. [S4-V5-p0276] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Salus Populi to the People of Pennsylvania: On Independence and a United Continental Legislature. [1776-03-07] Populi, Salus. [S4-V5-p0096] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Lord Stirling to Governour Trumbull: Requests the two Connecticut Regiments now at New-York may remain there until they are relieved by others from that Colony. [1776-03-17] Stirling, Lord. [S4-V5-p0221] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

An American to the People of Virginia: On the treatment the Colonies have received from Great Britain: Independence should be declared, the ports opened to a trade with the nations of Europe, and France called on for assistance. [1776-03-15] Anonymous. [S4-V5-p0225] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Colonel Heard, thanking him for his services, and relieving him from duty on Staten-Island. [1776-02-17] New-York, Congress. [S4-V5-p0276] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deputies for Richmond County requested to attend immediately. [1776-02-17] New-York, Congress. [S4-V5-p0283] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Permission given to all persons, not adjudged to be inimical to the country, to pass through any County in the Colony with Cattle, etc.. [1776-02-29] New-York, Congress. [S4-V5-p0320] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Cato to the People of Pennsylvania: Arguments in favour of reconciliation with England, and against Independence. [1776-03-21] Cato. [S4-V5-p0443] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter addressed to Cato, Cassandra, and all the writers on the Independent controversy. [1776-03-31] Anonymous. [S4-V5-p0552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolution of January, 1775, prohibiting the killing of Sheep, repealed, Plan of Government under consideration this day, and the 11th and 12th. [1776-03-10] South-Carolina Provincial Congress. [S4-V5-p0591] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Champney's. [1776-04-09] South-Carolina General Assembly. [S4-V5-p0643] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to inquire and report what quantities of Rice and other commodities have been purchased or shipped by the Secret Committee and Council of Safety, Committee on the Petition of Henry Aitkin, late Master of the Ship Port-Henderson. [1776-04-09] South-Carolina General Assembly. [S4-V5-p0643] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition from divers inhabitants of the County of Cumberland. [1776-03-12] Pennsylvania Assembly. [S4-V5-p0682] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Lloyd to John Sloss Hobart. [1776-04-08] Lloyd, John. [S4-V5-p0821] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The Forester to Cayo: Letter II. [1776-04-09] . [S4-V5-p0828] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Robert Cook to Colonel Knox. [1776-04-09] . [S4-V5-p0835] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Apr.13, Address of a Planter to the Inhabitants of Virginia: The time for action has arrived the enemy has set the example of treating at the point of the sword and they should be met by an appeal at once to the sword. [Undated] . [S4-V5-p0914] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Cassandra to Cato: Letter 2. [1776-04-13] . [S4-V5-p0921] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Rynier Van Hosen to the New-York Committee of Safety: He has been confined for three months, asks a hearing that the charges against him may be cleared up. [1776-04-20] . [S4-V5-p0998] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General Orders, April 23 to April 25. [1776-04-25] . [S4-V5-p1071] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proclamation by General Washington prohibiting all intercourse or correspondence of any kind whatsoever with any Ship in the service of the King of Great Britain or with any of his Officers or Ministers or other person on board such Ship. [1776-04-29] . [S4-V5-p1126] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Captain Delaplace to the President of Congress respecting his private property left at Ticonderoga. [1776-05-02] . [S4-V5-p1175] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report on the defences of the Sea-coast. [1776-04-19] . [S4-V5-p1330] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Sinclair. [1776-03-29] . [S4-V5-p1413] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Commissioners at the Fortifications in the Highlands, stating their difficulties in prosecuting the works. [1776-03-28] . [S4-V5-p1414] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Colonel Trumbull authorized to take possession of the Cellars of the Hospital, for storing Provisions for the Troops. [1776-03-30] . [S4-V5-p1415] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Passport for Gerard G. Beekman, a friend to the cause of American liberty, to go to Bristol, in Pennsylvania. [1776-03-28] . [S4-V5-p1415] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Sebastian Beauman appointed Captain of the Continental Company of Artillery to be raised in the Colony. [Undated] . [S4-V5-p1415] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Commissioners in the Highlands, informing them that Colonel Nicoll's powers cannot be abridged. [1776-03-30] . [S4-V5-p1416] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Richmond County advised to remove the Stock from Staten-Island to New-Jersey, to save it from the expected depredations of the Ministerial Army and Navy. [1776-03-30] . [S4-V5-p1417] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Richmond County advised to remove the Stock from Staten-Island to New-Jersey, to save it from the expected depredations of the Ministerial Army and Navy. [1773-03-27] . [S4-V5-p1417] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Apr.3, A Member sent to procure three or four guides, requested by General Heath for particular purpose. [1776-04-03] . [S4-V5-p1426] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Conference of Colonel Mifflin, Quartermaster-General, with the Committee of Safety City Committee requested to provide, without delay, Barracks for twelve thousand men Continental Troops permitted to pass and repass the Rivers, without charge for ferriage Price of Firewood established The College in the City to be used as Barracks for the Troops Return of an election of Officers for a Minute-Company, in Brooklyn Rev. Samuel Auchmuty permitted to go to New-Jersey and return Supplies furnished the Governour's Ship and the Ships-of-War in the Harbour. [1776-04-04] . [S4-V5-p1429] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions for the encouragement of the culture of Hemp and Flax, the growth of Wool, and the erecting and establishing Manufactories in the Colony. [1776-04-19] . [S4-V5-p1457] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Lloyd. [1776-05-02] . [S4-V5-p1483] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committees in the several Counties appointed to collect Gold and Silver for the operations in Canada. [1776-01-27] . [S4-V5-p1529] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Battalion. [1776-05-25] . [S4-V5-p1598] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Assemblies, Conventions, Councils, and Committees of the several Colonies requested to promote the culture of Hemp, Flax, and Cotton, and the growth of Wool, Society for the improvement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, recommended to be established in every Colony. [1776-03-21] . [S4-V5-p1646] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From the Merchants and Traders of Chester, trading to Newfoundland. [1775-11-22] . [S4-V6-p0072] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From the Merchants of London, concerned in the Fisheries of Newfoundland, etc. [1775-11-22] . [S4-V6-p0072] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From the Merchants of Liverpool. [1775-12-05] . [S4-V6-p0073] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From the Merchants of Lancaster. [1775-12-05] . [S4-V6-p0074] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Lancaster, Poole. [1775-12-05] . [S4-V6-p0074] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From the Planters of the Sugar Colonies residing in the Great Britain, and the Merchants of London trading to the Sugar Colonies. [Undated] . [S4-V6-p0074] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty, Feb.29, of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol. [1776-02-29] . [S4-V6-p0075] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From Merchants trading from the Port of Milford. [1776-02-29] . [S4-V6-p0075] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

From the Proprietors of Plantations in the British West Indies, Merchants in Glasgow, and others. [1776-04-26] . [S4-V6-p0075] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee for Halifax, North-Carolina to General Lee. [1776-05-06] . [S4-V6-p0403] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from William Smith, of New-York Howe, communicating information from Amercia. [1776-05-11] . [S4-V6-p1368] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Stephen Parker to James Bowdoin: States the reasons for his going to Nova-Scotia, and declares his firm attachment to the cause of America. [1776-05-13] . [S4-V6-p0441] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Newar, New-Jersey, prohibit the killing of any lamb or sheep before the 1st of August. [1776-05-20] . [S4-V6-p0523] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Commissioners in Canada to the President of Congress, May 17: Doctor Franklin, who with the Rev. Mr. Carroll, left Montreal on the 11th instant, will give the fullest information of the state of our affairs in Canada. The confusion which prevails through every department, relating to the Army, cannot be described. The recent disgraceful flight is the principal source of all the disorders in the Army. [1776-05-17] . [S4-V6-p0587] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Inhabitants of Wellfleet to the Massachusetts Council. [1776-05-28] . [S4-V6-p0611] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to their Delegates in Congress: All is quiet at Annapolis. The Governour has just received a letter from Captain Hammond, of the Roebuck, who will shortly send for him. Lord Dunmore has taken possession of Gwinn's Island. Our Islands will probably be plundered next. [1776-06-02] . [S4-V6-p0682] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address of A Watchman to the People of Massachusetts-Bay. [1776-06-05] . [S4-V6-p0716] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Ryner Van Hoese to the New-York Congress. [1776-06-14] . [S4-V6-p1404] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

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. [Undated] . [S4-V6-p0935] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

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. [1776-06-17] . [S4-V6-p0947] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from David Reed to the Massachusetts Assembly. [1776-06-22] . [S4-V6-p1033] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of the Committee for Bergen County, New-Jersey. [1776-06-24] . [S4-V6-p1051] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Colonel James Clinton. [1776-06-25] . [S4-V6-p1068] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter form General Washington to the New-York Congress with the opinion of several General officers on the subject of disaffected and dangerous persons. [1776-06-27] . [S4-V6-p1436] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Determination of the Brigadier-Generals in regard to the removal of stock from the Islands. [1776-06-27] . [S4-V6-p1109] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the New-York Congress, urging the necessity of removing the stock of cattle and horses from those parts of the coast most exposed to the enemy. [1776-06-27] . [S4-V6-p1110] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Robert H. Harrison to General Heard, requesting that all the cattle and stock along the Jersey and Staten-Island shores be immediately removed out of the reach of the British shipping and their tenders. [1776-06-29] . [S4-V6-p1134] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committee of Elizabethtown New-Jersey. [1776-06-29] . [S4-V6-p1440] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Jacob Blackwell to the Committee for Queen's County, New-York. [1776-06-29] . [S4-V6-p1136] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

June 30,Letter from Edward Thomas to General Livingston: The Companies for the new levies Hunterdon County, New-Jersey, are not half-full, in Somerset it is not much better, there are numbers of tenants that say if they are taken away at this season of the year, they may as well knock their families in the head, for that they will be ruined. [1776-06-30] . [S4-V6-p1141] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee appointed by the Committee for Queen's County, New-York, to request assistance to prevent their being plundered by the Ministerial Troops. [1776-07-01] . [S4-V6-p1198] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of the Connecticut Council' of Safety. [1776-07-03] . [S4-V6-p1224] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress: Yesterday fifty sail of the enemy's fleet anchored at Staten-Island, one hundred and ten have arrived within the Hook. [1776-07-03] . [S4-V6-p1234] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Panton to General Gates, submitting a plan for the protection of themselves and their families. [1776-07-04] . [S4-V6-p1274] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

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. [1776-07-04] . [S4-V6-p1275] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

June 14, Philip Livingston directed to delay his return to the Continental Congress, until further order, Publick Records of the Colony to be forthwith removed to Kingston, in Ulster County, Committee to take charge of the Records and provide for their safety and security, Petition of Dr. Azor Betts, to be discharged from prison, John W. Livingston declares his willingness to comply with the Resolve of Congress, and begs to be discharged from prison, Examination of Abraham Livingston. [1776-06-14] . [S4-V6-p1402] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from President Hancock, enclosing Resolutions of the Continental Congress of the14th instant. [1776-06-17] . [S4-V6-p1412] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from President Hancock, enclosing Resolutions of the Continental Congress of the14th instant. [1776-06-17] . [S4-V6-p1412] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

One hundred and fifty men to be raised in Dutchess and Westchester Counties, to protect the inhabitants against dangerous and disaffected persons, Offer of the Militia of the Colony to the Commander-in-Chief, whenever he may think it necessary, June 22,Commander-in-Chief authorized to impress carriages and water-craft, when necessary for publick service. [1776-06-22] . [S4-V6-p1424] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General Washington requested to disarm and secure the persons disaffected and inimical to the American cause, on Long-Island, Resolutions to provide clothing for the Troops raised, and to be raised. [1776-06-24] . [S4-V6-p1427] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington, enclosing tee Resolution of the Council of General Officers on the removal of the cattle from Nassau and.Staten-Islands, Letter from General Washington, enclosing tee Resolution of the Council of General Officers on the removal of the cattle from Nassau and.Staten-Islands, Letters read, giving information of General Howe's sailing with the fleet from Halifax for New-York. [1776-06-27] . [S4-V6-p1436] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report.of Committee on removal of Cattle from Long-Island and Staten-Island. [1776-06-29] . [S4-V6-p1439] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committee of Elizabethtown. [1776-06-29] . [S4-V6-p1440] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to value the Linen manufactured by Edward Parker, of Cecil County, Committee to report professer Resolutions, in an swer to a Resolution of the Virginia Convention of the 31st of May. [1776-07-02] . [S4-V6-p1495] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Motion of Mr. Chase, that all publick and private interest of Moneys cease and determine. During this time of general distress, rejected, Bonds of non-Associators dispensed with, Report of Committee on the establishment of Manufactories, Motion of Mr. Chase, that all Rents be paid in country produce, rejected, Motion, that all interest on Bonds or Contracts, cease and determine during this time of publick distress, rejected, Motion of Mr. Hooe, that interest on all Debts and Contracts be paid in country produce, rejected, Council of Safety elected, Interest which has accrued since the 10th of September blast, may be paid in Indian corn, wheat, tobacco, etc.. [1776-07-05] . [S4-V6-p1501] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Intercepted Letters to Governour Eden, laid before the Convention, Leave given to bring in an Ordinance for establishing a mode of Tobacco payments, John Tayloe Corbin to be sent for in custody under a strong guard, Committee of Propositions and Grievances, Petition of John Ballendine, who is engaged in making a canal from Westham to Richmond, on James River. [1776-05-08] . [S4-V6-p1513] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Robert Adam for aid in establishing a manufactory of coarse linens and sailcloth. [1776-05-18] . [S4-V6-p1529] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

All persons inimical or disaffected to the liberties of America, to be disarmed and deprived of their ammunition. [1776-05-27] . [S4-V6-p1538] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Former Resolution for the removal of the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, with their stocks and other effects, excepting as to such persons as are inimical to the cause of America, rescinded. [1776-05-28] . [S4-V6-p1539] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of John Craig, complaining of the proprietors of the new country called Transyl vania, Resolutions for employing Indian Warriors not to be carried into execution, without the approbation of Thomas Walker and John Hatvie. [1776-05-30] . [S4-V6-p1543] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of the Convention on the proceedings of Maryland respecting Governour Eden. [1776-05-31] . [S4-V6-p1544] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition from Margaret Goodrich, praying that her husband, John Goodrich, may not be sent to the back parts of the Colony. [1776-05-06] . [S4-V6-p1550] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition. [1776-06-08] . [S4-V6-p1554] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ordinance for augmenting the Ninth Regiment of Regular forces, providing for the better defence of the Frontiers of the Colony, and for raising six Troops of Horse. [1776-06-08] . [S4-V6-p1556] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the Inhabitants of the Western Waters, in the County of Botetourt, Petition of the Inhabitants of Chincoteague Island, in the County of Accomack, Committee to prepare an Ordinance for an issue of Treasury Notes to the amount of one hundred thousand Pounds, for the publick service. [1776-06-12] . [S4-V6-p1562] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition from the Committee of Frederick County, praying*that the people called Quakers and Menonists may not be exempted from Militia duties, Petition of sundry natives of Great Britain. [1776-06-19] . [S4-V6-p1579] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

June 27. [1776-06-27] . [S4-V6-p1593] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ordinance to amend an Ordinance for making Tobacco payments. [1776-06-28] . [S4-V6-p1595] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ordinance for raising three thousand three hundred of the Militia of New-Jersey, to reinforce the Army at New-York. [1776-06-14] . [S4-V6-p1619] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Monmouth County directed to remove all the stock on their coast, which may be in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy. [1776-07-23] . [S4-V6-p1651] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of Committee appointed to confer with the General on the ensuing campaign, Committee to prepare an animated Address to the People. [1776-05-29] . [S4-V6-p1687] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

June 3, Resolutions of Congress on the Report of the Committee of the Whole, Secret Committee authorized to export produce of the Colonies to the West-Indies, sufficient to pay for ten thousand stand of arms. [1776-06-03] . [S4-V6-p1694] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Livingston to General Washington, enclosing intelligence from Staten-Island. [1776-07-05] . [S5-V1-p0018] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Ebenezer Hazard to General Gates: The British have taken possession of Staten Island, cattle and Tories. [1776-07-05] . [S5-V1-p0020] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of William Ash, from Staten-Island. [1776-07-05] . [S5-V1-p1394] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Scott to the New-York Congress, with a number of prisoners of war. General Washington is very uneasy at the detention of prisoners of war in the city, at this critical juncture. [1776-07-05] . [S5-V1-p0022] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Mercer to General Washington. [1776-07-08] . [S5-V1-p0120] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Mercer to General Washington: State of the Army in New-Jersey. [1776-07-09] . [S5-V1-p0140] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Declaration of Independence proclaimed at New-York. [1776-07-11] . [S5-V1-p0144] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the inhabitants of Truro to the Council and House of Representatives of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay. [1776-07-09] . [S5-V1-p0146] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Provincial Congress of New Jersey to the President of Congress: The Colony is drained of men for the defence of New-York, they should be permitted to return for the present, that they may save and secure their grain, already suffering. [1776-07-10] . [S5-V1-p0172] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General jail delivery of debtors in New-York, in pursuance of the Declaration for Independency. [1776-07-10] . [S5-V1-p0174] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Joseph Blanchard and others to the Provincial Congress of New-York: Complain of their confinement in jail, occasioned, as they apprehend, by some mistaken notion of their political principles. [1776-07-10] . [S5-V1-p0175] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Hartley to General Arnold, of July 10: Report of his scout down Lake Champlain. [1776-07-10] . [S5-V1-p0207] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Thomas Billings and others, confined to the limits of their farms in Worcester. [1776-07-10] . [S5-V1-p0179] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Convention of New York to the Committees of East and South Hampton: Measures have been taken to secure the stock on the east end of Long Island. [1776-07-12] . [S5-V1-p1398] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee Appointed to Confer with General Washington, dated New-York. [1776-07-12] . [S5-V1-p1414] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Desiring the Council to appoint a day of solemn Humiliation and Prayer. [1776-07-03] . [S5-V1-p0310] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

For Procuring Wool. [1776-07-13] . [S5-V1-p0324] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Hay to General George Clinton. [1776-07-14] . [S5-V1-p0337] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Hammond, of July 14: Has taken one John Fowler, returning from on board the men-of-war. [1776-07-14] . [S5-V1-p1402] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Joseph Travis to the New-York Convention. [1776-07-15] . [S5-V1-p1404] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Arnold to General Gates: Tomorrow Colonel Bedel and Major Butterfield are ordered up, and go off immediately. [1776-07-15] . [S5-V1-p0358] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Mercer to General Washington: His plan of a proposed attack on the British posts on Staten-Island. [1776-07-16] . [S5-V1-p0369] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of the Connecticut Council of Safety. [1776-07-16] . [S5-V1-p0379] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the Officers, etc., of Colonel Bedel's Regiment, to General Gates. [1776-07-17] . [S5-V1-p0398] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington. [1776-07-17] . [S5-V1-p0400] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Affidavit of Matthew Thompson: British ships were supplied with hogs, calves, etc., from Block-Island. [1776-07-17] . [S5-V1-p0403] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Thomas Bourk to the Council of Safety. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p0430] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Hooper to the Council of Safety: Has called out the Militia, but they cannot be kept together, without money for their subsistence. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p0430] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the President of Congress to the Convention of New-Jersey: Requesting the live stock on the sea-coast of New-Jersey may be removed to the interior. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p0440] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Hay to General Washington: The enemy now lie in Haverstraw-Bay, and are using every effort to land and destroy the property of the inhabitants, a supply of powder and ball is absolutely necessary. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p0452] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of Richard Turpin, a deserter from Captain Wallace, of the ship Rose: Communications of the Tories with the British. [1776-07] . [S5-V1-p0452] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Nicholas Marselus. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p0454] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the Inhabitants of Shelburne, on Lake Champlain, to General Gates: requesting a party of men may be stationed there for their protection. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p0455] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Samuel Tucker to the President of Congress. [1776-07-20] . [S5-V1-p0468] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to General Washington, July 20: There are on Long-Island one hundred thousand head of horned cattle, besides a larger number of sheep and other stock. To remove these would reduce the inhabitants (twenty-five or thirty thousand) to the greatest distress, the Convention, therefore, have given over the thought of removing the stock from the Island. [1776-07-20] . [S5-V1-p0538] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to General Washington, July 20: There are on Long-Island one hundred thousand head of horned cattle, besides a larger number of sheep and other stock. To remove these would reduce the inhabitants (twenty-five or thirty thousand) to the greatest distress, the Convention, therefore, have given over the thought of removing the stock from the Island. [1776-07-20] . [S5-V1-p0538] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to John Augustine Washington. [1776-07-22] . [S5-V1-p0509] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress. [1776-07-23] . [S5-V1-p0540] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington, July 17. [1776-07-17] . [S5-V1-p0540] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General George Clinton to General Washington. [1776-07-23] . [S5-V1-p0544] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the New York Convention: Recommends the adoption of some regulations to prevent the enemy from receiving supplies of provisions. [1776-07-24] . [S5-V1-p0557] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Council of Safety to Matthew Tilghman. [1776-07-25] . [S5-V1-p0571] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Greene to General Washington: Asks how he shall proceed in relation to a duel that is to take place the next day. [1776-07-25] . [S5-V1-p0577] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Conmunction. [1776-07-25] . [S5-V1-p0578] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Major Price to the Council of Safety: Has been under the necessity of sending home all the Militia, except fifty, and it was with much difficulty they were kept. [1776-07-26] . [S5-V1-p0590] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of William Poor and John White, in respect to the British officers (prisoners of war) who broke their parole, and escaped from Lebanon, in Pennsylvania, in June last. [1776-07-26] . [S5-V1-p0596] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of William Poor and John White, in respect to the British officers (prisoners of war) who broke their parole, and escaped from Lebanon, in Pennsylvania, in June last. [1776-07-26] . [S5-V1-p0597] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel McDougall to General Washington: Regiments engaged without time are more to be depended on for the defence of the country than those imbodied for a short period. [1776-07-26] . [S5-V1-p0602] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Several Captains of Militia in King's County to the New-York Convention: Request their Companies may be excused from a draught, as the whole Militia engage to turn out whenever necessary. [1776-07-26] . [S5-V1-p1460] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Extract of a Letter from St. Eustatia: Powder and Warlike Stores are Plenty at Martinique, and May be Purchased and Shipped without Difficulty. [1776-07-28] . [S5-V1-p0626] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Henry B. Livingston to General Washington: There are a prodigious number of cattle on Long-Island, two cannon have been mounted at the east end of the Island, but there is no ammunition for them. [1776-07-31] . [S5-V1-p0696] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Extract of a letter from Pensacola, in West Florida: Governour Tonyn's Proclamation. [1776-08-01] . [S5-V1-p0706] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

New York Committee. [1776-08-02] . [S5-V1-p0728] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

John Birdsey and Gershom Birdsey Published as Enemies to the Country by the Committee for Middletown, Connecticut. [1776-08-02] . [S5-V1-p0732] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Schuyler to General Gates: The opinion of General Washington's Council, that the General Officers at Ticonderoga had acted reprehensibly, without knowing their reasons, is so insulting that he cannot sit patiently under it. [1776-08-03] . [S5-V1-p0747] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from S. Metcalf to Colonel Jacob Bayley. [1776-08-06] . [S5-V1-p0798] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of Two Canadian Captains of Colonel James Livingston's Regiment of Canadians, who fled from St. John's, and have arrived at Ticonderoga. [1776-08-06] . [S5-V1-p0798] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of the inhabitants of Onion River, on Lake Champlain, to General Gates: Requesting his assistance with a guard, so that they can get in their crops, that are now ripe. [1776-08-06] . [S5-V1-p0803] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of Jacob Halsted, of Orange County. [1776-08-07] . [S5-V1-p1490] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the New York Convention: Relating to the appointment of General George Clinton, and the defences of the Highlands. [1776-08-08] . [S5-V1-p0852] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the New-York Convention: On the appointment of General Clinton. [1776-08-08] . [S5-V1-p1487] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to General Washington : From disaffection, the want of arms, the exposed situation of Long-Island and the frontiers, the possession of one County by the enemy, and the probability of their being called upon for reinforcements for the northern frontier, they are deprived of the assistance of nine Counties of the fourteen which compose the State, it is, therefore, not in their power to do as much at this crisis as the cause of America requires. [1776-08-08] . [S5-V1-p1491] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Richard Varick to General Gates: Will send supplies as fast as possible. [1776-08-09] . [S5-V1-p0872] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Gates to Captain Richard Varick. [1776-08-09] . [S5-V1-p0872] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Cooke to Governour Trumbull: Has called out his Regiment, and expects to march, in a short time, to New-York, but as it is near seed time, it will very much damp the zeal of the people, if they cannot expect to be soon dismissed. [1776-08-09] . [S5-V1-p0873] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Massachusetts Council to Major Hawley. [1776-08-10] . [S5-V1-p0891] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of New-York Convention on the information that the inhabitants of King's County have determined not to oppose the enemy. [1776-08-07] . [S5-V1-p0911] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington: The strength of the enemy and the weakness of the American Army were equally unforeseen and surprising, has ordered fourteen Regiments of the Connecticut Militia to march without loss of time as a reinforcement. [1776-08-13] . [S5-V1-p0936] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Fitch to Governour Trumbull: His Regiment is ordered off to New-York, but the complaints of the men are without number, in all places part of their work is done, and there are not men enough left behind to finish it. [1776-08-13] . [S5-V1-p0938] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of the Committee for Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [1776-08-13] . [S5-V1-p0948] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Roll of the Troop of Horse of King's County, New-York, who were on duty to drive off the stock. [1776-08-14] . [S5-V1-p0953] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Roll of the Troop of Horse of Queen's County. [1776-08-14] . [S5-V1-p0953] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Greene to General Washington: Colonel Hand reports that the Hessions were landing on Staten-Island last evening. [1776-08-15] . [S5-V1-p0967] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Intelligence from Williamsburgh, Virginia: The First Virginia Continental Regiment has marched for New-York. Indian affairs. [1776-08-16] . [S5-V1-p0973] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Baron de Beaumarchais to the Committee of Secret Correspondence of Congress. [1776-08-18] . [S5-V1-p1021] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Opinion of the Georgia Council of Safety. [1776-08-19] . [S5-V1-p1052] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Committee of Safety to General Clinton. [1776-08-19] . [S5-V1-p1522] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Committee. [1776-08-20] . [S5-V1-p1079] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Livingston to General Washington: Information he has received from a spy returned fron Staten-Island. [1776-08-22] . [S5-V1-p1531] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Lee to the Board of War and Ordnance. [1776-08-24] . [S5-V1-p1131] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of the New-York Convention for removing the stock from the south and west parts Long-Island. [1776-08-23] . [S5-V1-p1537] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Philadelphia. [1776-08-27] . [S5-V1-p1181] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Woodhull to the New-York Convention: He is at Jamaica with less than one hundred men, will remain there as long as he can, in hopes of reinforcement. [1776-08-27] . [S5-V1-p1544] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Woodhull to the New-York Convention. [1776-08-27] . [S5-V1-p1546] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to General Washington: Enclosing copy of a letter from General Woodhull. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1196] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to Governour Trumbull: for one thousand men, or any greater force that can speedily be obtained. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1196] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to sundry Committees in Connecticut: requesting them to assist in removing the stock from Long-Island, where there are between eighty and one hundred thousand head of cattle, and as many sheep. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1196] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Woodhull to the New-York Convention: If no reinforcements are sent him he will have no men by tomorrow night, hopes the Convention does not expect him to make bricks without straw. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1548] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Joseph Drake to the New-York Convention. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to Several Towns in Connecticut: requesting their assistance in removing the inhabitants and the stock from Long-Island. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Convention to Governour Trumbull. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1553] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from James Lyon to the Massachusetts Assembly: Thinks Nova-Scotia worth annexing to our dominions, and proposes an expedition to subdue it. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1280] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ebenezer Dayton's Narrative of the Proceedings of the First Regiment in Suffolk County. [1776-08-30] . [S5-V1-p1234] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proclamation by General Carleton, Governour of Quebeck. [1776-08-30] . [S5-V1-p1240] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Committee of Safety (at the house of Mr. Odell, in Phillipse's Manor) to General Washington. [1776-08-31] . [S5-V1-p1560] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee of Guilford, Connecticut, agree to assist in removing the stock from Long-Island. [1776-08-31] . [S5-V1-p1279] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the New-York Committee of Safety. [1776-09-01] . [S5-V1-p1564] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The Proprietors of Poplar-Island, Tilghman's, Sharp's, Baron, and James's Islands, and the Islands from Hooper's to Cagre's Straits, required to remove from them immediately all the stock except such as are used for tillage. [1776-07-13] . [S5-V1-p1335] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Credentials of the Delegates from Tryon County, Credentials of the Delegates from the City and County of New-York, Depositions and Examinations taken by the Secret Committee, delivered by Mr. Morris, Style and title of the House changed from "The Provincial Congress of the Colony of New-York," to "The Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York," Committee to confer with the Commander-in- Chief, concerning the preservation of the stock on Long-Island, Recommendation of Congress to form a Government to be considered on Tuesday next. [1776-07-10] . [S5-V1-p1392] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of East and South Hampton, dated July 5, relative to the stock of cattle. [1776-07-10] . [S5-V1-p1394] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committees of East and South-Hampton. [1776-07-12] . [S5-V1-p1398] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Committee for Ulster County. [1776-07-16] . [S5-V1-p1404] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report on the Letter Read and Postponed. [1776-07-16] . [S5-V1-p1414] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The President Ordered to Absolve all the Members and the Secretaries from the oath of secrecy taken under the resolution of the 5th of June last, relative to dangerous and disaffected persons, Members added to the Committee on the horned cattle and live stock on Nassau-Island, Letter from David Matthews and application from John L. C. Rome, referred to the Committee appointed to deal with dangerous and disaffected persons, Report on the Rangers for the defence of the frontier Counties read and recommitted. [1776-07-16] . [S5-V1-p1415] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report on the Cattle on Naussau-Island: considered and postponed. [1776-07-18] . [S5-V1-p1416] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee relative to the cattle on Nassau-Island further considered. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p1418] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Consideration of the Report on the Horned Cattle and live stock on Nassau-Island resumed. [1776-07-19] . [S5-V1-p1420] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington, New-York, July 24. [1776-07-24] . [S5-V1-p1450] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington relative to the Militia called forth from the Counties of Dutchess, Ulster, Westchester, and Orange. [1776-08-08] . [S5-V1-p1487] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to General Washington. [1776-08-08] . [S5-V1-p1491] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Order for the Preservation of the Publick stores in New-York, where an attack is daily expected, Committee to repair to King's County and ascertain the truth of a report that the people there will not oppose the enemy. [1776-08-10] . [S5-V1-p1497] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to General Clinton on discharging the Orange County Troop. [1776-08-19] . [S5-V1-p1521] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Livingston of New-Jersey, to General Washington, August 21, Committee on General Livingston's letter. [1776-08-22] . [S5-V1-p1531] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions Reported by the Committee, consisting of members from Queen's and Suffolk, read and agreed to. [1776-08-24] . [S5-V1-p1533] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee appointed to reconsider a former report on General Livingston's letter, read and agreed to. [1776-08-23] . [S5-V1-p1537] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Mr. Hobart chosen Chairman. [1776-08-27] . [S5-V1-p1543] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Woodhull. [1776-08-27] . [S5-V1-p1546] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Woodhull, Committee to repair to General Woodhull, with power to impress horses, boats. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1548] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Joseph Drake. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Several Towns in Connecticut, requesting their assistance in removing the stock from Long-Island. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Gov. Trumbull on the same subject. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1553] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Reward to Mr. Flood for apprehending William Lounsbury. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V1-p1556] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington, dated August 30, requesting a body of Militia may be ready to prevent or retard the landing of the enemy east of Harlem River. [1776-08-31] . [S5-V1-p1560] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to General Washington. [1776-08-31] . [S5-V1-p1560] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington, September 1. [1776-09-01] . [S5-V1-p1563] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

July 17. [1776-07-17] . [S5-V1-p1581] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The Constitution of Pennsylvania. [1776-09-28] . [S5-V2-p0051] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Selectmen of Harpswell. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V2-p0732] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Josiah Bartlett to John Langdon: Prays him to send the Raleigh to sea as soon as possible. General Sullivan has arrived in Philadelphia, on his parole, with a verbal message from Lord Howe to the Congress. [1776-09-01] . [S5-V2-p0105] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to the New York Convention: impossible to give any assistance to prevent the cattle on Long Island from falling into the enemy's hands. Asks aid for the defence of the posts at King's Bridge. [1776-09-01] . [S5-V2-p0106] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from William Gilliland to General Arnold: Complains of the troops and sailors having wantonly committed great destruction on several of his plantations. [1776-09-01] . [S5-V2-p0112] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

John Bayley. [Undated] . [S5-V2-p0150] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Joseph Haynes. [1776-08-24] . [S5-V2-p0151] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ebenezer Rice. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V2-p0152] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Thomas Minor. [1776-08-24] . [S5-V2-p0152] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Edward Buckman. [1776-11-06] . [S5-V2-p0152] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

John Sanborn. [1776-08-26] . [S5-V2-p0153] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Joshua Howard. [1776-08-18] . [S5-V2-p0154] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Livingston to the Connecticut Council of Safety: Has not succeeded in his determination to prevent the inhabitants of East-Hampton supplying the Ministerial troops with live stock. [1776-09-07] . [S5-V2-p0225] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Abraham Gardiner to Governour Trumbull, communicating request of the Trustees of East-Hampton that the people of Connecticut may not come and take away their live stock and effects. [1776-09-07] . [S5-V2-p0225] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

William Gordon to the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts-Bay: On a form of Government. [1776-09-07] . [S5-V2-p0227] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Livingston to Governour Trumbull: The people of East and South Hampton have almost universally taken an oath of allegiance to the King. [Undated] . [S5-V2-p0252] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Massachusetts Assembly: To dislodge the enemy from Long-Island, and destroy the two ships and tenders in the Sound, might at one blow, in a great measure, relieve their bleeding country from impending danger. [1776-09-09] . [S5-V2-p0266] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition of Theodorus Van Wyck, Jun: Declarations of William Warne. [1776-09-10] . [S5-V2-p0681] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington: On the temporary appointment of Militia officers. [1776-09-10] . [S5-V2-p0278] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Livingston to Governour Trumbull: He has taken Colonel Abram Gardiner, who tendered the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of South and East-hampton. The whole attention of the enemy seems bent on New, York. [1776-09-10] . [S5-V2-p0281] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Order of General De Lancey to Colonel Fanning: Directing all the fat cattle and sheep that belong to people in Suffolk County who are in actual rebellion to be forced down for the refreshment of the King's troops. [1776-09-05] . [S5-V2-p0505] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Livingston to General Washington: Account of his proceedings on the east end of Long-Island. [1776-09-11] . [S5-V2-p0295] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petitions of Henry Chase and others, to the New-York Convention. [Undated] . [S5-V2-p0695] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from H. Glen to Walter Livingston. [1776-09-13] . [S5-V2-p0311] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Christopher Leffingwell to Governour Trumbull: Has brought from Long island two hundred head cattle and about five hundred sheep, several families, furniture, provisions, etc.. [1776-09-14] . [S5-V2-p0336] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Schuyler to Governour Trumbull: Intends to publish a narrative in justification of his conduct. [1776-09-12] . [S5-V2-p0341] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull: The enemy are recruiting a great number of men, and collecting large quantities of stock on Long-Island: General Clinton has been ordered to meet General Lincoln, to concert with him an expedition to the Island. [1776-09-20] . [S5-V2-p0416] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from "Incognito" to Governour Trumbull: Complaining of the orders for the removal of the stock and inhabitants from the east end of Long-Island. [1776-09-22] . [S5-V2-p0454] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of New-Windsor to General James Clinton. [1776-09-23] . [S5-V2-p0832] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of a General Court-Martial of the line, heM at Harlem, September 19: Trial of Ensign Macumber and Ebenezer Leffingwell. [1776-09-24] . [S5-V2-p0498] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Henry B. Livingston to General Washington: Is told that a reward of five hundred pounds is offered for his head by General De Lancey, is in great hopes of being even with him soon. [1776-09-24] . [S5-V2-p0504] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Account of the proceedings at Brook-Haven, on Long-Island. [1776-09-24] . [S5-V2-p0506] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Extract of a letter received in London from Mr. James Drewitt, on board the Mercury frigate at New-York. [1776-09-25] . [S5-V2-p0519] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Copy of a paper sent through the County of Suffolk, New-York, by order of Governour Tryon: All who had removed from Long-Island are deemed Rebels. [Undated] . [S5-V2-p0564] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Orders of John Morrison to seize the grain and forage of Rebels. [1776-09-27] . [S5-V2-p0565] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Blank order left with the Inhabitants of Suffolk County. [1776-09] . [S5-V2-p0565] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Cortlandt to General Gates. [1776-09-27] . [S5-V2-p0573] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address of Pennsylvania Convention to the Freemen of the Commonwealth. [1776-09-28] . [S5-V2-p0581] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Sales Deane to Robert Morris: To solicit arms, clothing, and tents, for thirty thousand men, and to be destitute of one shilling of ready money, has left him in a critical situation. [1776-09-30] . [S5-V2-p0601] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from. General Washington to General George Clinton, Directing him to concert with General Lincoln and others an expedition to Long-Island, for the purpose of siding the inhabitants in removing or destroying the stock, grain, etc.,. [1776-09-30] . [S5-V2-p0607] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull: Requesting him to afford every assistance he can for carrying into execution the expedition to Long-Island. [1776-09-30] . [S5-V2-p0609] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from A. De Wilt to Matthew Cantine: The inhabitants of Papaconck are in great fear of a rupture of the Indians. [1776-09-30] . [S5-V2-p0613] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Christopher Leffingwell to Governour Trumbull: Account of his proceedings in removing cattle,. etc., from Long-Island. [1776-09-30] . [S5-V2-p0623] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Depositions against Townsend and Scarborough. [1776-11-16] . [S5-V2-p0645] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Examination of John Wolley. [Undated] . [S5-V2-p0663] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Depositions of Roeloff Schenck, Theodorus Van Wyck, Jun., and Peter Horton ,as to the conduct and declarations of Mr. Warne, William Warne to be safely kept till tomorrow morning. [1776-09-10] . [S5-V2-p0681] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions for procuring flour, in pursuance of the letter of the Commissary-General. [Undated] . [S5-V2-p0700] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The President, with any five members, to have power to send for any member absent without leave, Isaac Ketchum ordered to be brought, manacled and under a proper guard, before the Convention, Two deserters to be sent to Fort Constitution. [Undated] . [S5-V2-p0711] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Aug 16, Petition of Jeremiah Colburn and Joshua Eayre, of Penobscot river. [1776-09-16] . [S5-V2-p0729] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Stephen Bussell and others, settlers on the east side of Penobscot river. [1776-8-19] . [S5-V2-p0729] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Aug 23, Petition of Jotham Bush, who was disarmed and confined to his homestead farm by the Committee of Shrewsbury. [1776-08-23] . [S5-V2-p0730] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Selectmen of Harpswell. [1776-08-28] . [S5-V2-p0732] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Reply of the Assembly. [1776-10-01] . [S5-V2-p0813] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General Howe's Orders for seizing grain, etc., on Long-Island, New-York. [1776-10-01] . [S5-V2-p0825] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

General Howe's Orders for seizing grain, etc., on Long-Island, New-York. [1776-10-01] . [S5-V2-p0825] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Extract of a letter from Head-Quarters at Bergen: Tomorrow they evacuate Bergen, a measure which will first be condemned, and afterwards approved of. [1776-10-04] . [S5-V2-p0867] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Silas Deane to the Secret Committee: The French Court, as well as several others in Europe, expected the United States to announce their independency to them in form, and ask their friendship, but a threee months' silence appears to them mysterious, and has more than once come near frustrating his whole endeavours. [1776-10-08] . [S5-V2-p0937] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington: A plan is forming by the noted Major Robert Rogers to make a sudden descent, with a battalion of Tortes, on Norwalk and other towns, to take the stores there, and to burn and destroy all before them. [1776-10-13] . [S5-V2-p1028] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Henry B. Livingston to the New-York Convention: Arrest of Colonel Fanning, Major Conkling, and George Howell, thought to be disaffected, but who profess themselves friendly. [1776-10-16] . [S5-V2-p1088] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Silas Deane to the Secret Committee: His distressed situation, totally destitute of intelligence or instructions since he left America. [1776-10-17] . [S5-V2-p1090] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Colonel Trumbull: His alarming situation on account of the state of the provisions. [1776-10-20] . [S5-V2-p1138] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Teach Tilghman to William Duer: To be obliged to follow an enemy whose route is a secret is not a little distressing, especially as there are not wagons enough to transport the baggage and provision. [1776-10-20] . [S5-V2-p1138] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Stephen Ward to Robert R. Livingston: Asking direction with regard to a resolve for purchasing hides. [1776-10-21] . [S5-V2-p1168] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Silas Deane to the Secret Committee: Must again urge them to hasten their remittances. Their silence since the 5th of June discourages him at times and well nigh distracts him. [1776-10-25] . [S5-V2-p1234] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

A Report of the Evidence taken at the Court of Enquiry, on the charge against Colonel Tyler, of cowardice and misbehaviour before the enemy on the 15th last. [1776-10-26] . [S5-V2-p1251] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Witherspoon to General Gates: Explains why he had not received an immediate and fully satisfactory answer to his letter to Congress relating to the dissolving the Court-Martial. [1776-10-30] . [S5-V2-p1293] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Proceedings of Convention of the Representatives from the several Counties and Towns of the New-Hampshire Grants, holden at Westminster. [1776-10-30] . [S5-V2-p1300] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Referred to the Board of War to Consider in what way Monsieur De Roche Fermoy may be employed in the service of the Continent, Colonel Hazen's Regiment to remain on its original establishment, and be recruited to its full complement in any of the thirteen United States. [1776-10-23] . [S5-V2-p1410] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Edward Fenwick, read and referred to a Committee. [1776-09-21] . [S5-V3-p0018] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report from the Committee to whom the Petition of Edward Fenwick was referred. [1776-09-24] . [S5-V3-p0022] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report of the Committee to whom Mr. Fenwick's Petition had been referred. [1776-09-26] . [S5-V3-p0029] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report from the Committee to whom the President's Message relative to erecting a Fort at Cheraw-Hill was referred. [1776-09-26] . [S5-V3-p0031] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Howe, containing his sentiments respecting the situation of the country, and measures necessary to place it in a proper state of defense. [1776-10-06] . [S5-V3-p0049] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Message to the President, sending a copy of the Report of the Committee on General Howe's Letter, desiring him to give such orders as shall appear most effectual for the defense of the back settlers, and requesting commissions for the Captains of the Watch Companies. [1776-10-19] . [S5-V3-p0080] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Time for the receipt and inspection of Tobacco at the publick Warehouses extended to the 10th day of November next. [1776-09-06] . [S5-V3-p0102] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Joseph Wheland to be confined in Jail until he make restitution to John White for his Sloop which he caused to be destroyed, John Evans, John Price, and Robert Howith, to give bond with security for their good behaviour, Certain Tobaccoes inspected by private inspectors permitted to be taken out of the Warehouse without publick inspection. [1776-09-12] . [S5-V3-p0110] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

The Inspector immediately to take possession of Robert Browne's Warehouse, by force if necessary. [1776-10-04] . [S5-V3-p0115] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Inspected Tobacco to be paid and received for publick dues until the 20th day of November next. [1776-10-04] . [S5-V3-p0115] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolution of 6th September relative to the inspection of Tobacco to continue in force until the General Assembly shall provide otherwise. [1776-11-08] . [S5-V3-p0164] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Circular Letter written to the Commanding Officers of the Battalions of Militia, earnestly requesting them to march their respective Battalions to Philadelphia immediately, The Board of War requested to send for Captain Strohbogh's Compnay of Artillery, lately sent to Fort Montgomery , in New-York, Colonel Bayard requested to get ready immediately as many of his Battalion as are necessary ro guard the State Prisoners to Lancaster and Reading, The Commodore ordered not to suffer any sea-vessel to pass through the chevaux-de-frise, An Armed Boat to be stationed at Gloucester-Point, and the utmost vigilance exerted in the preventing all shallops from passing down the river, Jacob Gerard Dyrcks, William Scull, and Matthew Henderson, appointed Captains in the Continental service, The owners of Cattle and other Stock near the river side to make the necessary preparations for removing the same at least five miles from the river, on the shortest notice. [1776-11-14] . [S5-V3-p0188] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions for purchasing all the Stock and Grain in Westchester County. [1776-10-14] . [S5-V3-p0245] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions relative to Hides. [1776-10-15] . [S5-V3-p0249] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Colonel Hay directed to prevent Stock falling into the hands of the enemy, One hundred Dollars advanced for carrying into execution the Resolve concerning the manufacture of Flax. [1776-10-16] . [S5-V3-p0251] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Mr. Ward authorized to purchase, on account of the State, all the Hides he can. [1776-11-09] . [S5-V3-p0304] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee to state the accounts due to inhabitants of Connecticut on account of expenses accrued in removing Stock and Poor Inhabitants from Long-Island. [1776-11-26] . [S5-V3-p0323] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report on the circumstances of part of Colonel Bradley's Regiment, Robert Livingston requested to confer with Generals Lee, Heath, and Clinton on the situation of the enemy within the State, The navigation of Hudson's River to be obstructed near Pollepel's Island, agreeable to the plan recommended by General James Clinton. [1776-11-26] . [S5-V3-p0324] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Order for the removal of Hay, Forage, and Grain, and the sale of the Stock on the farm of Thomas Barclay, who has gone over to the enemy. [1776-11-27] . [S5-V3-p0328] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Affidavit of John Marline. [1776-11-28] . [S5-V3-p0333] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Report from Committee to whom was recommitted a Letter from Mr. Hughes, respecting stock driven front lower part of Westchester County, by order of General Lee. [1776-12-02] . [S5-V3-p0345] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

William Miller appointed a Commissioner for disposing of the stock in Colonel McDaniel's pastures at Bedford. [1776-12-03] . [S5-V3-p0347] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to Colonel Henry B. Livingston, desiring him to transmit an account of the families, stock, and effects by him removed from Long-Island. [1776-12-03] . [S5-V3-p0352] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to General George Clinton, informing him that two Regiments have been sent to Westchester County to drive off Major Rogers and his Rangers. [1776-12-12] . [S5-V3-p0371] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolution authorizing the Governour and Council to lay an embargo. [1776-10] . [S5-V3-p0450] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from William Carmichael, at Amsterdam, to the Committee of Secret Correspondence. [1776-11-02] . [S5-V3-p0477] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Silas Dearie, Paris, to the Secret Committee: Two hundred pieces of brass cannon, arms, tents, and accoutrements for thirty thousand men, have been granted to his request. The rage for entering the American service increases. Plan of a French naval officer for constructing and regulating a Navy. [1776-11-06] . [S5-V3-p0538] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Committee of Guildord to New-York Convention. [1776-11-06] . [S5-V3-p0551] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Nov. 2. [1776-11-02] . [S5-V3-p0566] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to General Greene: Is inclined to think it will not be prudent to hazard the men and stores at Mount Washinton, but as Genral Greene is on the spot, leaves it with him to give such orders as to evacuating Mount Washington as he may judge best, and so far revoking the order given to Colonel Magaw to defend it to the last. [1776-11-08] . [S5-V3-p0602] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Livingston to General Washington: Thinks it so absolutely necessary to remove the grain, etc., that he has already begun to set the example. [1776-11-09] . [S5-V3-p0617] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of Miles Oakley to General Washington, for remuneration for injury done to his property by the American Army. [1776-11-09] . [S5-V3-p0620] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Jacob Hornbeck, Chairman of Rochester Committee, to New-York Convention: Application for salt. [1776-11-09] . [S5-V3-p0623] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address of the Committee of Essex County, New-Jersey, to the inhabitants of the County: Recommend to all who live near the water or the great roads to remove their stock, grain, etc., as soon as possible. [1776-11-10] . [S5-V3-p0629] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Hugh Hughes to the President of the New-York Convention. [1776-11-13] . [S5-V3-p0663] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

A Soldier to the Independent Sons of America. [1776-11-14] . [S5-V3-p0685] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Observations on the contest with America, by "A By-Stander," London. [1776-11-15] . [S5-V3-p0687] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Hugh Hughes, Assistant Quartermaster-General, to General Wooster. [1776-11-16] . [S5-V3-p0711] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Losses sustained in Canada by Udney Hay, (late of Quebeck, timber-merchant, now Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Northern American Army,) in the years '75 and '76. [1776-11] . [S5-V3-p0744] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Van Bibber & Harrison to Maryland Council of Safety. [1776-11-19] . [S5-V3-p0759] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Matthew Griswold to New-York Convention. [1776-11-22] . [S5-V3-p0815] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Committee. [1776-11-27] . [S5-V3-p0869] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Silas Deane to the Secret Committee. [1776-11-28] . [S5-V3-p0882] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel A. Hawkes Hay to John McKesson: Enclosing an account for sundries supplied the guards while the ships-of-war lay in the bay of Haverstraw and Nyack. [1776-08-21] . [S5-V3-p0896] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Pliarne, Penet, & Co., to the Secret Committee (original). [1776-11-30] . [S5-V3-p0610] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Translation of the above. [1776-11-30] . [S5-V3-p0612] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from William Rumsey to Maryland Council of Safety. [1776-11-30] . [S5-V3-p0915] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Henry Wisner to Pierre Van Cortlandt and William Duer. [1776-11-30] . [S5-V3-p0932] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Silas Deane to the Committee of Secret Correspondence: History of his proceedings. [1776-12-03] . [S5-V3-p1050] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Silas Deane to John Jay: Suggests destruction of Newfoundland fisheries. Could fill ten ships with passengers for America, copy of articles acknowledging the independence of the United States, which have been shown to him, and which have been seen by both the Courts of France and Spain. [1776-12-03] . [S5-V3-p1051] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Governour Trumbull to Massachusetts Council: What means that languor, inertion, and dispiritedness, that seems to overwhelm the New-England States? Suggests a meeting of the New-England States by their Commissioners, as soon as the enemy are retired into winter quarters, has a hiint of this in a late letter from General Lee. [1776-12-09] . [S5-V3-p1142] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Conduct of the British and Hessian troops in New-Jersey. [1776-12-12] . [S5-V3-p1188] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Rev. James Caldwell to General Lee: Intelligence of the enemy's motions. [1776-12-12] . [S5-V3-p1189] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Hendrick Wyckoff to New-York Committee of Safety: Wishes to know whether he must continue to act as Commissary. [1776-12-12] . [S5-V3-p1191] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Joseph Trumbull to General Washington. [1776-12-13] . [S5-V3-p1203] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolution of the House of Delegates of Virginia, recommending a prohibition of the exportation of beef, pork, and bacon. [1776-12-19] . [S5-V3-p1271] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from M. Malmedy to General Lee. [1776-12-20] . [S5-V3-p1322] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Robert Morris to the Commissioners in France: Detail of military affairs, depreciation of Continental currency, state of the Navy, privateering. [1776-12-21] . [S5-V3-p1332] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke. [1776-12-21] . [S5-V3-p1339] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Herchkeimer and others to New-York Convention: Appeal for relief in a case in which certain military proceedings in General Herchkeimer's brigade were taken before the County Committee, and countermanded. [1776-12-21] . [S5-V3-p1353] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from John Field to New-York Convention. [1776-12-23] . [S5-V3-p1381] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

An Address of the Convention of the Representatives of the State of New-York to their constituents. [1776-12-23] . [S5-V3-p1382] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Observations on the action at Trenton, written in England before the American account of it arrived. [1777-02] . [S5-V3-p1424] [Document Details][Complete Volume]