51 Documents
Field Officers chosen for New-Castle County, Delaware. [1775-03-20] . [S4-V2-p0172] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee for Chester County, Pennsylvania, direct each Member to use diligence in collecting money for Boston. [1775-03-20] Pennsylvania, Chester County Committee. [S4-V2-p0172] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Boston to Newport, R. I. The insolence of the British Soldiers at Boston, encouraged and headed by their Officers, makes it unsafe for people to walk the streets at noon-day. [1775-03-20] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0178] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Gentleman in the service of a Counsellor of State at Paris, to his friend in Rhode-Island. [1775-03-20] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0173] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by Lord Dunmore, for the sale of the King's vacant Lands in Virginia, and prohibiting Richard Henderson from taking possession of any Lands under a pretended purchase from the Indians. [1775-03-21] Dunmore, John, Governour of Virginia. [S4-V2-p0174] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the Committee of Norfolk, Virginia, to the Publick, declaring Captain Simpson a violator of the Association, and an enemy of American Liberty. [1775-03-21] Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Phripp, Matthew; Taylor, James; Hutchings, John; Lawrence, John; Ritson, Thomas; Boush, John; Taylor, Robert; Claiborne, T.; Inglis, Samuel; Davies, William. [S4-V2-p0174] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee for Talbot County, Maryland, direct two bales of Goods imported in the Ship Baltimore, in violation of the Continental Association to be sent back to Glasgow. [1775-03-21] Maryland, Talbot County Committee; Troupe, Charles. [S4-V2-p0175] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Albany, New-York, Committee appoint Deputies to the Provincial Congress. [1775-03-21] New-York, Albany Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection; Bleecker, John N.. [S4-V2-p0176] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Rensselaerwyck Manor -- Thanks to their Members of the General Assembly. [1775-03-21] New-York, Rensselaerwyck Manor Committee of Inspection; Lansing, Abraham J.. [S4-V2-p0176] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Liberty-Pole cut down at Poughkeepsie, in New-York, by the Sheriff of Dutchess County, attended by a Judge of the Inferiour Court, and two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace. [1775-03-23] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0176] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Fairfield Committee Proceedings. [1775-03-21] Connecticut, Fairfield Committee of Inspection; Burr, Thaddeus. [S4-V2-p0176] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Samuel Adams to Richard Henry Lee. Virginia from the beginning of the contest has distinguished herself in the cause of American Liberty: the People of Massachusetts, with some few exceptions, are firm and united. The conduct of the British Soldiers and Officers highly offensive to the citizens, the Officers endeavoured to create a disturbance on the 6th, when Dr. Warren delivered his Oration. [1775-03-21] Adams, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0176] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel E. Doolittle to John Hancock, suggesting the establishing of a Civil Constitution for the Province, to remedy the evils every where felt for want of a regular Government. [1775-03-21] Doolittle, Ephraim, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0177] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Arthur Lee, enclosing one received from the Lord Mayor of London, giving information of attempts to procure counterfeits of the Bills of Credit of the Colonies. [1775-03] Britannophilus (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0178] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Dr. Franklin to his son, giving a history of his private negotiations in London, for a settlement of the difficulties between the Colonies and Great Britain. [1775-03-22] Franklin, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0178] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Dr. Wheelock to Governour Trumbull. There are reports of an invasion from Canada, and the Indians, if not secured in our interests, will likely join on the other side. Several of their children, froth some of the most respectable tribes, are now at the Seminary, (Dartmouth,) and may be considered hostages, Mr. Dean, now among them, will probably bring more, this connection is our surest bulwark against an invasion. [1775-03-22] Wheelock, Eleazer. [Spelling variants of Eleazer include: Eleazar.] [S4-V2-p0210] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Boston to a Gentleman in New-York. Outrages of the British Officers and Soldiers in Boston. [1775-03-22] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0211] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from New-York to John Dickinson, reviewing and condemning his political conduct. [1775-03-23] Senex (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0211] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the Committee of Inspection for the City and County of New-York. Their censure of Mr. Rivington is arbitrary and tyrannical, and breathes a spirit of intimidation towards him. [1775-03-23] Anti-Tyrannicus (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0213] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of the Riots in Cumberland County, New-York. [1775-03-23] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0214] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Benjamin Hough to the Inhabitants of the City of New-York. [1775-03-23] Hough, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0215] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Statement of Benjamin Hough, under oath, of the indignities and violence he received from the Rioters in Cumberland County. [1775-03-23] Hough, Benjamin; Horsmanden, Daniel. [S4-V2-p0215] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
A relation of the proceedings of the People of the County of Cumberland, and Province of New-York. [1775-03-23] New-York, Cumberland County Committee. [S4-V2-p0218] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Gilbert to Captain Wallace of His Majesty's Ship Rose. Many threats have been made against those who have taken Arms in the King's name, and there is fear the Rebels will attack them. [1775-03-23] Gilbert, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0222] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Guilford, Connecticut, Committee, acquit Captain Griffin of an intentional violation of the Association in taking fourteen Sheep to Martinico. [1775-03-23] Connecticut, Guilford Committee; Landon, David. [S4-V2-p0222] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the Inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay, No 6, from the County of Hampshire. The question examined, Whether we are in truth a part of the British Empire, in such a sense as to be subject to her supreme authority in all cases whatsoever?. [1775-03-23] From the County of Hampshire (pseudo.). [This essay responds to a series of essays by Tory Daniel Leonard, writing as Massachusetensis. John Adams, as Novanglus wrote the most famous response. See Bernard Mason, ed., The American Colonial Crisis: The Daniel Leonard—John Adams Letters to the Press, 1774—1775 (New York, 1972), for texts of this debate. The document also mentions Thomas Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, without ever mentioning the name of the author.] [S4-V2-p0222] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Nansemond County, Virginia, publish the Rev. John Agnew, Rector of Suffolk Parish, for his opposition to the Association and the Provincial Congress. [1775-03-24] Virginia, Nansemond County Committee; Gregorie, John. [S4-V2-p0226] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Worcester (Massachusetts) Committee require punctual attendance of Members of the Committee. [1775-03-24] Massachusetts, Worcester Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p0228] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Thomas Wheeler to the Printers of the Massachusetts Gazette, explaining the reasons for resigning his commission, acknowledging his former errors, and avowing his firm attachment to the cause of Liberty. [1775-03-24] Wheeler, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0228] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Freeholder of the County of Worcester. The violence and misrepresentations of the Tory writers cannot injure the cause of Liberty. [1775-03-24] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0229] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Montreal. The Canadians were highly offended by the Address of the Congress to the People of England. [1775-03-24] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0229] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Remarks on Mr. Sullivan's Letter. The extraordinary spirit to acquire the use of Arms at this time of civil discords, marks strongly a disposition to employ our Arms against the Government. [1775-03-24] Nestor. [S4-V2-p0231] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Eden to Governour Penn. refusing to join in issuing a Proclamation, recalling that of November 2, 1774, respecting the Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. [1775-03-25] Eden, Robert, Governour of Maryland. [S4-V2-p0303] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Essex, New-Jersey, to D. C. The late news from England has strengthened the union of the Colonies. Not more than three Towns in the four New-England Provinces opposed to the measures of the Congress, in New-Jersey and the Southern Provinces the opposition is as small. Some few places in New-York are delinquent, but they appear to be returning to their duty. [1775-03-25] Essex (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0232] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Confession of Thomas Lilly, of Marblehead, that he has been guilty of purchasing Tea. [1775-03-25] Lilly, Thomas; Sparhawk, John; Massachusetts, Marblehead Committee of Inspection. [S4-V2-p0234] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Deposition of Simon Tufts, March 31st, that in purchasing Tea he had no intention of violating the Association. [1775-03-31] Tufts, Simon; Noyes, Belcher; Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Inspection. [S4-V2-p0234] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Orange County, Virginia, Committee, meet, and demand of the Rev. John Wingate the surrender of a number of Pamphlets containing reflections on the Continental Congress. The Committee obtain them after some difficulty and delay, and order them to be burnt. [1775-03-27] Virginia, Orange County Committee; Taylor, Francis. [S4-V2-p0234] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Plymouth, Massachusetts, Committee to the Committee of Safety. [1775-03-25] Massachusetts, Plymouth Committee of Correspondence; Torrey, John. [S4-V2-p0235] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by Lord Dunmore, requiring all Magistrates and Officers to use their endeavours to prevent the appointment of Deputies to the Continental Congress, and exhorting all persons within the Colony to desist from such an unjustifiable proceeding. [1775-03-28] Dunmore, John, Governour of Virginia. [S4-V2-p0236] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Remarks on Lord Dartmouth's Circular to the Governours of the Colonies, requiring them to do their utmost to prevent the choice of Deputies to the Continental Congress. [1775-03] Ignotus (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0236] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from an Englishman in New-York to the Committee of Correspondence for Philadelphia. Charges them with falsehood, hypocrisy and rebellion, condemns their whole proceedings, and asserts that the number of loyal subjects is increasing with a rapid progress. [1775-03-28] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0238] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee for Worcester, Massachusetts. [17775-03-28] Massachusetts, Worcester Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p0242] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Gentleman in London to his friend in North-Carolina. [1775-03-29] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0242] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee recommend to the Inhabitants to stop the exportation of Nails, and to withhold all Supplies, which are essential to hostilities, from the Troops at Boston. [1775-03-29] New-York Committee; Low, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0242] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from J. Brown to the Committee of Correspondence at Boston. The Canadians appear to be quite friendly towards the Colonies, but there is no prospect of Canada sending Delagates to the Continental Confess. The Fort at Ticonderoga must be seized should hostilities be committed by the King's Troops, the People on the New-Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business, and they are the most proper persons for the job. [1775-03-29] Brown, J.. [S4-V2-p0243] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, approve the conduct of George Ross for opposing, in the Assembly, the recommendation of the Governour to send a separate Petition to His Majesty. [1775-03-30] Pennsylvania, Lancaster County Committee of Observation; Michael, Eberhart. [S4-V2-p0245] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Chiefs of the Six Nations in consultation with Colonel Guy Johnson. [1775-03-30] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0245] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the Inhabitants of Massachusetts-Bay, No. 7, from the County of Hampshire. [1775-03-30] From the County of Hampshire (pseudo.). [This essay responds to a series of essays by Tory Daniel Leonard, writing as Massachusetensis, John Adams, as Novanglus wrote the most famous response. See Bernard Mason, ed., The American Colonial Crisis: The Daniel Leonard—John Adams Letters to the Press, 1774—1775 (New York, 1972), for texts of this debate.] [S4-V2-p0245] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Freeholders of Jamaica, on Long island, refuse to send Deputies to the Provincial Congress. [1775-03-31] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0251] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Portsmouth, New-Hampshire Assocation. [1775-01-17] New-Hampshire, Portsmouth Association. [S4-V2-p0251] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the Subscribers to an Association agreed to in January last, in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire. [1775-03-31] Spectator (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0251] [Document Details][Complete Volume]