79 Documents
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr. William Small. [1775-05-07] Jefferson, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0523] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Committee of Albany, New-York. [1775-05-07] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0523] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to Col. James Scammon. It is understood that it would be agreeable to the people of York that Johnson Moulton should have the command of the Regiment to be raised there, and therefore request Colonel Scammon to give way for him. [1775-05-07] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0524] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Order of Admiral Graves to Lieutenant Graves, to seize a Vessel at Marblehead, and bring her into Boston. [1775-05-07] Graves, Samuel, Admiral. [S4-V2-p0525] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolution of the Common Council of Williamsburgh, Virginia, on the breaking into the Magazine and taking thence the Fire-Arms. [1775-05-08] Virginia, Williamsburgh Committee; Davenport, Matthew. [S4-V2-p0525] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Sussex County, Virginia, Committee. Declare the Letter of Lord Dunmore to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated December 24, 1774, to be fraught with calumny, falsehoods and illiberal reflections against the People of Virginia. Direct Troops to be raised, Officers appointed, and Ammunition furnished. -- Committee of Intelligence and Correspondence appointed. [1775-05-08] Sussex County, Virginia, North America. [S4-V2-p0525] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Freeholders of Mecklenburgh County, Virginia. Appoint a Committee to secure a due observance of the Continental Association, and every member of the Committee required to exert his endeavours to enlist Volunteers, as required by the late Provincial Convention. [1775-05-08] Virginia, Mecklenburgh County Committee. [S4-V2-p0526] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of Mecklenburgh County Committee. [1775-05-13] Virginia, Mecklenburgh County Committee; Holmes, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0527] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of Prince George, Virginia, Committee. Every person importing any Goods into this County must, before they are landed, produce a Certificate from the Committee whence they were reshipped, that they were imported into this Colony before the 1st day of February last. Committee of Intelligence appointed. [1775-05-01] Virginia, Prince George County Committee. [S4-V2-p0527] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings in relation to Capt. Charles Alexander. [1775-05-08] Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Davies, William; Virginia, Prince George County Committee. [S4-V2-p0527] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings in relation to Capt. Charles Alexander. [1775-05-08] Alexander, Charles; Virginia, Prince George County Committee. [S4-V2-p0528] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings in relation to Capt. Charles Alexander. [1775-07-03] Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Davies, William; Virginia, Prince George County Committee. [S4-V2-p0528] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings in relation to Capt. Charles Alexander. [1775-05-22] Alexander, Charles; Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Raines, Hartwell. [S4-V2-p0528] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Louisa County, Virginia, Committee. Thanks to Captain Patrick Henry and the Hanover Volunteers, for procuring satisfaction for the Gunpowder taken by Lord Dunmore. [1775-05-08] Virginia, Louisa County Committee; Walker, Thomas; White, William; Dabney, James; Barrett, Charles; Ragland, Samuel; Pettus, William; Thompson, Waddy; Minor, Garritt; Johnson, Thomas, Jr.; Johnson, Thomas, Sr.; Anderson, Nathaniel; Crutchfield, John; Anderson, Robert; Smith, Charles; Garritt, Henry. [S4-V2-p0529] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Freeholders of Westchester County, New-York. Deputies to the Provincial Congress appointed. The Committee then signed the Association, and appointed Sub-Committees to superintend the signing of it throughout the County. [1775-05-08] New-York, Westchester County Meeting; Van Cortlandt, James. [S4-V2-p0529] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
All persons importing Arms or Ammunition required to deliver them to the Committee in ten days, and all persons prohibited from disposing of any in any other manner. [1775-05-08] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0529] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Motion by Mr. Smith and Mr. Clarkson. [1775-05-08] Smith, Thomas; New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0530] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee directed to report a Resolution for the regulation of such vessels as shall depart with Provisions Committee appointed to have the Muskets fitted with steel Rammers, Thanks to Mr. Sharpe for delivering a number of Arms gratis. [1775-05-09] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0530] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to prepare a Letter to the Delegates in Congress, requesting the advice of the Continental Congress with respect to the conduct to be observed towards any Troops that may arrive here, Address to the Lieutenant-Governour read and approved of. [1775-05-10] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0531] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee appointed to convey the earliest intelligence to the Counties in this Province, Physicians requested to abstain from inoculating for the Small-Pox. [1775-05-11] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0531] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee appointed to present the Address of the Committee to the Lieutenant-Governour. No inhabitant to be treated as an enemy to the Country but by order of the Continental or Provincial Congress, or this Committee. [1775-05-12] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0532] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Correspondence directed to write to the neighbouring Committees to prevent the Man-of-War in the Harbour from being supplied with Provisions for the Troops at Boston, from New-Jersey or Staten-Island. [1775-05-14] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0532] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the Committee to Lieutenant-Governour Colden. [1775-05-11] New-York Committee; Remsen, Henry. [S4-V2-p0533] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
His Honour's Answer. [1775-05-13] Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York. [S4-V2-p0534] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from the Inhabitants of Ridgebury, in the Township of Ridgefield, to Gov. Trumbull. [1775-05-08] Colby, Daniel; Rockwell, David; Keeler, Isaac; Bennet, Samuel; Keeler, Samuel, Jr.; Stearns, Zachariah; Northrup, Samuel; Weed, Bartholomew; Northrup, Matthew; Frost, Thomas, Jr.; Birchard, Isaiah; Benedict, Timothy; Stevens, Nathan; Foster, Jonah; Stevens, Nathaniel; Gray, Abraham; Foster, Nathan; Forester, William; Hurlbert, Azor; Birchard, Jeremiah; Rockwell, Abijah. [S4-V2-p0536] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Malden and Chelsea order their suspicions, of Doctor Samuel Danforth's attachment to the Country, to be communicated to General Ward. [1775-05-08] Massachusetts, Chelsea Committee of Correspondence; Massachusetts, Malden Committee of Correspondence and Inspection; Dexter, John. [S4-V2-p0536] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Constitutional Post-Office is now rising on the ruins of the Parliamentary one. [1775-05-08] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0536] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
List of the Post-Offices established. [1775-05-08] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0537] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Mr. Holt's Post-Office in New-York. [1775-05-08] Holt, John. [S4-V2-p0537] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to the Selectmen of the Town of Hopkinton. A violation of the natural right of an individual to remove his person and effects wherever he pleases, would ill become those who are contending for the inalienable right of every man to his own property, and to dispose of it as he pleases. It is hoped that Mr. Barret's example will not become infectious. [1775-05-08] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0791] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to the Committee from Portsmouth, New-Hampshire. [1775-05-08] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0792] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to General Ward, directing him to apprehend certain named persons, and bring them before the Committee of Safety for examination. [1775-05-08] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0794] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Samuel Mather to the Massachusetts Congress, enclosing General Gage's circumstantial account of the engagement on the 19th of April. [1775-05-08] Mather, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0538] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Selectmen of Worcester to the Massachusetts Congress. Samuel Paine and William Campbell sent to Watertown, as persons disaffected to the Country. [1775-05-08] Massachusetts, Worcester Selectmen; Bigelow, Joshua. [S4-V2-p0538] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Deposition of Gardner Chandler. [1775-05-09] Chandler, Gardner; Goddard, Robert. [S4-V2-p0539] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Committee, approve of the Proceedings of Captain Patrick Henry, concerning the Powder taken from the Magazine by Lord Dunmore. [1775-05-09] Virginia, Spottsylvania County Committee; Dick, Alexander. [S4-V2-p0539] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Orange County, Virginia, Committee, declare the removal of the Powder by Lord Dunmore was fraudulent, that the reprisal made by the Hanover Volunteers merits the approbation of the publick, and present an Address of thanks to Captain Patrick Henry. [1775-05-09] Virginia, Orange County Committee; Madison, James; Taylor, James; Burnley, Zachariah; Madison, James, Jr.; Walker, James; Scott, Henry; Barbour, Thomas; Thomas, Rowland; Moore, William; Taliaferro, Lawrence; Bill, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0539] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Hanover County, Virginia, Committee. Report of the Proceedings of the Hanover Volunteers in making reprisals for the Powder seized by Lord Dunmore, Patrick Henry's receipt for three hundred and thirty Pounds, as a compensation for the Powder taken from the Magazine in Williamsburgh, by order of Lord Dunmore. [1775-05-04] Henry, Patrick, Jr.; Virginia, Hanover County Committee. [S4-V2-p0540] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Patrick Henry to Robert Carter Nicholas, informing him that the affair of the Powder is settled, and offering a guard for the Treasury. [1775-05-04] Henry, Patrick, Jr.; Virginia, Hanover County Committee. [S4-V2-p0540] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Answer from Mr. Nicholas. [1775-05-09] Virginia, Hanover County Committee. [S4-V2-p0541] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Note on Patrick Henry. [1775-05-12] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0541] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Gentleman in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to his friend in Philadelphia. Several Towns of the County have begun to form Military Associations. [1775-05-09] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0541] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the Convention in January, approved. Inhabitants of the Towns in the County recommended to associate to improve in the Military Art. Delegates to a Provincial Convention appointed. [1775-05-08] Pennsylvania, Bucks County Committee. [S4-V2-p0542] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Committee. Military Associations to be formed throughout the County immediately, Powder and Lead to be furnished. If any person shall refuse to enrol himself in some Company, he shall not he permitted to have any dealing, by buying or selling, or borrowing or lending, with any Inhabitant of the County. [1775-05-09] Pennsylvania, Bedford County Committee; Espy, David. [S4-V2-p0542] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Ulster County, New-York, to a Gentleman in the City of New-York. A great revolution has taken place in this County. At a meeting yesterday those who have hitherto opposed the Committees agreed to unite in support of their measures. [1775-05-09] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0543] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Joel Clark to Governour Trumbull. Recapitulates his former services, and now makes a tender of them. [1775-05-09] Clark, Joel. [S4-V2-p0544] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Thomas Howell to Governour Trumbull. Thanks him for the appointment he has received, but believing it will conduce to the peace of the Town, (New-Haven,) resigns, and recommends Jonathan Fitch. [1775-05-09] Howell, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0544] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Sheffield, Massachusetts, Committee, on an investigation of the charges against Job Westover, resolve that he is an enemy of American Liberty, and that it is the duty of all friends of freedom to break off all dealings with him. [1775-05-09] Massachusetts, Sheffield Committee of Observation. [S4-V2-p545 ] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Sheffield, Massachusetts, Committee. [1775-05-12] Massachusetts, Sheffield Committee of Observation. [S4-V2-p0545] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Gentleman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to an Officer of the Connecticut Forces, at Cambridge. The Stockbridge Indians are willing to join the Colonies, and will be of great service if Gage marches out of Boston. There are but twelve Soldiers at Crown Point, and about two hundred at Ticonderoga, they are much alarmed with our expedition. [1775-05-09] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0546] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from Cohasset to the Committee of Safety, praying permission to raise a Company for their defence. [1775-05-09] Lincoln, Isaac; Kent, Abel; Lathrop, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0547] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Lynn to the Committee of Safety, with Josiah Martin, charged with having acted as an enemy to the Province. [1775-05-10] Massachusetts, Lynn Committee of Correspondence; Mansfield, John. [S4-V2-p0546] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Josiah Martin to the Committee of Safety. [1775-05-11] Martin, Josiah. [S4-V2-p0546] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from London to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. It is believed here that not withstanding your seeming firmness and hostile preparation, you will submit to any thing rather than contend with us. [1775-05-10] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0547] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Thanks of the Williamsburgh, Virginia, Volunteers to the Volunteers who offered their assistance on the late alarm. [1775-05-10] Virginia, Williamsburg Volunteer Company; Brown, John. [S4-V2-p0547] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from New-York to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. [1775-05-10] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0547] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Freeholders of Goshen Precinct, in Orange County, New-York, appoint Delegates to the Provincial Congress. [1775-05-10] New-York, Goshen Freeholders; Clowes, Peter; De Heart, Balthazar. [S4-V2-p0831] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the Publick, by the Ulster County, New-York, Committee, correcting the mis-representations of Mr. Jacobus Low. [1775-05-10] New-York, Ulster County Committee; Sleght, Johannes. [S4-V2-p0548] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of War for the expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, to the Massachusetts Congress. Ticonderoga was taken this morning, and the Committee have given the command to Colonel Ethan Allen. Arnold claims the command, but did not enlist a man for the expedition. [1775-05-10] Easton, James; Bull, Epap.; Mott, Edward; Phelps, Noah. [S4-V2-p0556] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Town Meeting at Providence, Rhode-Island. Committee to examine into the state of the Arms of the Town. [1775-05-10] Rhode-Island, Providence Town Meeting; Cooke, Nicholas. [S4-V2-p0549] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to General Gage, remonstrating against his violation of the Agreement with the Selectmen of Boston. The People have complied with it, and surrendered their Arms, and though a number of days have elapsed, very few have been permitted to leave the Town. [1775-05-10] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0798] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Thomas to the Committee of Safety. [1775-05-10] Thomas, John, General. [S4-V2-p0549] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee and Selectmen of Bristol to the Massachusetts Congress. The Town of Bristol has three Companies, of sixty Men each, most of whom have Guns, but they are out of Ammunition, and cannot procure a supply. [1775-05-10] Massachusetts, Bristol Town Meeting. [S4-V2-p0549] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Timothy Pickering, Jun., to the Committee of Safety. [1775-05-10] Pickering, Timothy, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0550] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Enoch Freeman to Samuel Freeman. The threats of Colonel Thompson to take the Canceaux, in the Harbour of Falmouth, has thrown the Town in confusion, they can make no defence against a Man-of-War. [1775-05-10] Freeman, Enoch. [S4-V2-p0550] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-Kent County, Virginia, Committee, declare the charges against the Inhabitants of Virginia, in Lord Dunmore's Proclamation of the 3d instant, is an unjust reflection upon them, and has no foundation in truth. [1775-05-11] Virginia, New-Kent County Committee; Smith, William. [S4-V2-p0551] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Somerset County, New-Jersey, Committee, choose Delegates to the Provincial Congress, and instruct them to agree in arming and supporting the Militia. [1775-05-11] New-Jersey, Somerset County Committee; Frelinghuysen, Frederick. [S4-V2-p0551] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of Committees of the several Towns and Precincts in Ulster County, New-York. Names of the Committees of the several Towns. Deputies to the Provincial Congress chosen. [1775-05-11] New-York, Ulster County Committees; De Witt, Charles. [S4-V2-p0832] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Ethan Allen to the Albany Committee, informing them that he has taken the Fortress of Ticonderoga, and apprehensive that Governour Curieton will make an effort to retake it, asks for re-enforcements. [1775-05-11] Allen, Ethan. [S4-V2-p0606] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Recantation of P. Bailey, of Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire. [1775-05-11] Bailey, P.. [S4-V2-p0552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Recantation of James McMaster, of Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire. [1775-05-11] McMaster, James. [S4-V2-p0552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Recantation of Thomas Achincloss, of Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire. [1775-05-22] Achincloss, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to General Thomas. [1775-05-11] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Falmouth, Massachusetts, to a Gentleman at Watertown. Account of the Proceedings at Falmouth, in consequence of the capture of Captain Mowatt, of the Canceaux, by Colonel Thompson. [1775-05-11] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0552] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Deer-Island to the Massachusetts Congress. The Inhabitants are out of Powder, Ball and Provisions, and request assistance. [1775-05-11] Massachusetts, Deer Island Committee; Dow, Nathan; Haskell, Francis; Babidge, Covitney; Thomson, Thomas; Nason, Robert; Rayner, Samuel; Crockett, Isaiah. [S4-V2-p0555] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the New-York Committee. Two Men-of-War, with Troops on board, sailed yesterday for New-York, it is supposed they have orders to seize the Ammunition and Military Stores in the Fort there. [1775-05-11] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress Committee; Gerry, Elbridge; Warren, James; Lincoln, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0556] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Ethan Allen to the Massachusetts Congress. Ticonderoga taken yesterday morning by one hundred Green Mountain Boys, and fifty Soldiers from Massachusetts, the latter were under the command of Col. Easton. [1775-05-11] Allen, Ethan. [S4-V2-p0556] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Benedict Arnold to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. Account of the capture of Ticonderoga, and the state of affairs there. Allen, who has assumed the command, is a proper man to head his own wild People, but entirely unacquainted with military service, and every thing is in confusion. [1775-05-11] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0557] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Edward Mott, Chairman of the Committee of War, to the Massachusetts Congress. Account of planning the Expedition against Ticonderoga, and of the capture of that Fortress. The Committee have given the command to Colonel Allen, to the exclusion of Arnold, who claimed it after the surrender of the Fort. [1775-05-11] Mott, Edward. [S4-V2-p0557] [Document Details][Complete Volume]