62 Documents
Philadelphia Committee stop all Exportations from Philadelphia to Quebeck, Nova-Scotia, Georgia, and Newfoundland, until the Continental Congress shall give further orders therein. [1775-04-27] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence; Smith, Jonathan B.. [S4-V2-p0421] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Stephen Hopkins to the President of the Massachusetts Congress, informing them of the seizure and detention of Mr. John Brown, of Providence, and requesting them to make the King's Officers answerable for the treatment of Mr. Brown. Reprisals recommended by the Continental Congress, and sanctioned by the Colonies, are highly necessary to be put in practice. [1775-04-27] Hopkins, Stephen. [S4-V2-p0421] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Isaac Lee to Governour Trumbull. His Regiment is prepared with arms and ammunition, and ready to march at the shortest notice. [1775-04-27] Lee, Isaac, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0423] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Jedediah Huntington to Jonathan Trumbull, Jun. Great numbers of Troops, or rather armed men, are at Boxbury, in much confusion. It is expected that the Inhabitants of Boston will be permitted to come out this day, but many are suspicious that the General intends to deceive them, till he gets possession of their Arms. [1775-04-27] Huntington, Jedediah, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0423] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Selectmen of Boston. As soon as it is known what time the Inhabitants are permitted to leave Boston, those who wish to take refuge there shall go in. [1775-04-27] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0424] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Selectmen of Boston. It is reported that General Gage says the Provincials fired first upon his detachment. This report creates the greatest astonishment, as there is the clearest evidence it is untrue. [1775-04-27] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0424] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Boston Committee to the Committee of Safety, enclosing the Agreement concluded on this day between General Gage and the Committee. [1775-04-27] Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p0424] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Agreement concluded between General Gage and the Committee, enclosed in a Letter from the Boston Committee to the Committee of Safety. [1775-04-27] Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p0425] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Doctor Warren to Arthur Lee. The measures of the Administration have brought matters to a crisis. Lord Chatham and our friends must make up the breach immediately, or never. The next news from England must be conciliatory, or the connection between us ends, however fatal the consequences may be. [1775-04-27] Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0425] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Quebeck. The Governour's new Commission read there the 24th instant. [1775-04-27] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0425] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
People assembling at Fredericksburg, Virginia, to march to Williamsburgh to demand a restitution of the Powder taken by Lord Dunmore. [1775-04-28] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0426] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by Governour Franklin, calling a meeting of the Assembly of New-Jersey, on the 15th of May next. [1775-04-28] Franklin, William, Governour of New-Jersey. [S4-V2-p0426] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of Inhabitants at Perth Amboy, in New-Jersey. Deputies to the Provincial Congress, to meet on the 5th of May, appointed. [1775-04-28] New-Jersey, Perth-Amboy Committee. [S4-V2-p0426] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the New-York Committee to the Freeholder and Freemen of the City and County of New-York, recommending the election of a new Committee, to consist of one hundred Members, on Monday next, the first of May, and at the same time to choose Delegates to a Provincial Congress. [1775-04-28] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0427] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of New-York to the Committees of the several Counties in the Colony, urging the immediate election of Deputies to a Provincial Congress, to meet on the 22d of May. [1775-04-28] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0428] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
"An American" to the Inhabitants of New-York. Outrages of the British Troops on the 19th of April. Both the King and Ministry are determined, at all hazards, to destroy American liberty. There is nothing now left for us but to appeal to God, and use what strength we have in defence of our liberty. [1775-04-28] An American (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0428] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Thomas Brown to Colonel George Pitkin. General Gage has opened the gates, and given permission to the Inhabitants of Boston to leave the Town. [1775-04-28] Brown, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0429] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Congress of New-Hampshire. A powerful army on our side must be raised at once. The other Colonies, as well as this, are fully convinced, that by immediate and vigorous exertions they may establish their liberty and save their Country. [1775-04-28] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0429] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Cambridge to a Gentleman in Newport, Rhode-Island. Our countrymen swarm to our defence from all quarters. We are busily organizing our Troops, and shall soon have an army of thirty thousand in the field. We have some hopes the Inhabitants of Boston will be permitted to leave the Town this day. They delivered up their Arms yesterday. [1775-04-28] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0430] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Stephen Hopkins to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-04-28] Hopkins, Stephen. [S4-V2-p0430] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James Angell to the Massachusetts Congress. Will, on any alarm, furnish six hundred men from the three Battalions under his command in Providence, Rhode-Island. [1775-04-28] Angell, James. [S4-V2-p0431] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Providence, Rhode-Island, to the Massachusetts Congress. The Assembly passed an act for raising Men, but as they omitted to authorize enlistments, no Men can be raised under it. [1775-04-28] Andrews, Zephaniah; Freeman, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0431] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Stephen Hopkins. [1775-04-28] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0431] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Samuel Murray and two Officers of General Gage's Army will be sent to Providence, to be made use of for obtaining the liberty of Mr. Brown. [1775-04-28] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0432] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Stephen Hopkins, informing that the arrangement made with General Gage for the release of the Inhabitants of Boston prevents sending the hostages mentioned in their letter of yesterday. [1775-04-29] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0432] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Safety to the several Towns in Massachusetts, conjuring them by all that is sacred to give all assistance in forming the Army. [1775-04-28] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0433] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Newburyport Committee to the Committee of Safety, recommending Christian Febiger, a Dane, for an appointment in the Army,. [1775-04-28] Massachusetts, Newburyport Committee of Correspondence; Titcomb, Jonathan. [S4-V2-p0433] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Selectmen of Sandbornton to the New-Hampshire Congress. They are without Ammunition, and cannot obtain any. [1775-04-28] New-Hampshire, Sandbornton Selectmen. [S4-V2-p0433] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Gage. The People of Connecticut dread nothing so much as a civil war, but will defend their rights to the last extremity. [1775-04-28] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p0433] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Gage to Governour Trumbull, transmitting him a circumstantial account of the unhappy affair that happened on the 19th instants. [1775-04-29] Gage, Thomas, General. [S4-V2-p0434] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Circumstantial account of an Attack that happened on the 19th of April, 1775, on His Majesty's Troops, by a number of the People of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, transmitted by General Gage to Governour Trumbull. [1775-04-29] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0435] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of an Attack upon a body of the King's Troops, by a number of People on the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, on the 19th of April, 1775, transmitted by General Gage to Lord Dunmore. [1775-05-20] Gage, Thomas, General. [S4-V2-p0436] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of an Attack on the Inhabitants of Massachusetts, by the British Troops, acting under the orders of General Gage, on the 19th of April, 1775. [1775-05-03] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0437] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract from an intercepted Letter, written by a Soldier in the Army at Boston, of the Engagement on the 19th of April. [1775-04-28] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0439] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract from an intercepted Letter, written by a Soldier in the Army at Boston, of the Engagement on the 19th of April. [1775-04-28] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0440] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract from an intercepted Letter, written by a Soldier in the Army at Boston, of the Engagement on the 19th of April. [1775-04-30] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0440] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract from an intercepted Letter, written by a Soldier in the Army at Boston, of the Engagement on the 19th of April. [1775-04-25] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0441] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract from an intercepted Letter, written by a Soldier in the Army at Boston, of the Engagement on the 19th of April. [1775-05-02] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0441] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Serious admonition to the Inhabitants of Williamsburgh, Virginia, on the excitement caused by the removal of the Powder by Lord Dunmore. The Powder could only belong to the King, and none but him, or his representatives, could of right use it. [1775-04-29] Civis (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0441] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Officers of the Albemarle Volunteers to Colonel George Washington. They are ready to march to Williamsburgh, and compel the immediate delivery of the Powder taken by Lord Dunmore. [1775-04-29] Virginia, Albemarle County Volunteers. [S4-V2-p0442] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Determination of a Council of one hundred and two Members, at Fredericksburg, assembled in consequence of the seizure of the Powder at Williamsburgh by Lord Dunmore. [1775-04-29] Virginia, Fredericksburgh Committee. [S4-V2-p0443] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Dickinson to Arthur Lee. The impious war of tyranny against innocence has commenced in the neighbourhood of Boston. The Continent is preparing for a vigorous resistance. We are a united, a resolved People. Our Smiths and Powder-Mills are at work night and day. Supplies are continually arriving. [1775-04-29] Dickinson, John. [S4-V2-p0443] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
General Association signed by the Inhabitants of the City of New-York, and sent to all the Counties in the Province to be signed. [1775-04-29] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0471] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Oliver De Lancey, denying the authenticity of a Publication in an English Paper over the initials of his name. [1775-04-29] De Lancey, Oliver. [S4-V2-p0445] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
James Duane and John Jay on Mr. De Lancey's request. [1775-04-29] Duane, James; Jay, John. [S4-V2-p0446] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Recantation of Jonathan Fowler and George Cornwall, of Westchester, New-York. [1775-04-29] Fowler, Jonathan; Cornwell, George. [S4-V2-p0446] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Boston Committee to the Provincial Congress. [1775-04-29] Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence; Scollay, John; Goldthwait, Ezekiel; Marshall, Thomas; Austin, Samuel; Payne, Edward; Pitts, John. [S4-V2-p0446] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Committees of the several Towns in Massachusetts, urging them to send forward Men for the Army. [1775-04-29] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0446] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Safety to the Several Towns in Massachusetts. [1775-04-29] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0447] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Samuel Thompson to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. At the Eastward, all are for the Country but three, one of these has deserted, the other two are in irons. [1775-04-29] Thompson, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0447] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Recantation of Stephen Holland, of Londonderry, New-Hampshire. [1775-04-29] Holland, Stephen; Bell, John. [S4-V2-p0447] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Alexander Spotswood to Colonel George Washington. [1775-04-30] Spotswood, Alexander. [S4-V2-p0447] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of Jacobus Low to the Publick, contradicting the charge of the Ulster County Committee, that he is unfriendly to Liberty. [1775-04-30] Low, Jacobus. [S4-V2-p0448] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Sullivan, at New-York, to the Committee of Correspondence for Portsmouth, New-Hampshire. New-York is nearly unanimous, yesterday six or seven thousand declared for Liberty at all hazards. They have stopped the Custom-House, and seized the City Arms. All denominations are under Arms, and in high spirits. Rivington has made a Recantation. Cooper has decamped. The People with difficulty were prevented from taking the lives of some of the Traitors. [1775-04-30] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0448] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Theophilus Morgan to Governour Trumbull, requesting permission for his Vessel to sail for the West-Indies. [1775-04-30] Morgan, Theophilus. [S4-V2-p0449] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Request to Governour Trumbull to Grant a Permit to Theophilus Morgan. [1775-04-30] Connecticut, General Assembly. [S4-V2-p0449] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Boston Committee, transmitting a Vote of the Provincial Congress. [1775-04-30] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0449] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, to the Massachusetts Congress. The Messenger with the Despatches for Gen. Gage passed through Northampton yesterday. [1775-04-30] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0450] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Benedict Arnold to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, giving the number of Cannon, and c., at Ticonderoga. [1775-04-30] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0450] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the New-York Committee, informing them that it has been proposed to take Ticonderoga, but will not infringe on the rights of New-York. [1775-04-30] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0450] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings in relation to Capt. Charles Alexander. [1775-05-01] Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Davies, William. [S4-V2-p0527] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Freeholders of King William County, Virginia. Deputies to the Convention chosen. One hundred and seventy-five Pounds contributed for the relief of the sufferers in Massachusetts. [1775-04-30] King William County, Virginia, North America. [S4-V2-p0450] [Document Details][Complete Volume]