80 Documents
New-York Committee. [1775-05-15] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0603] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address from the Captains of six Companies, offering their services to co-operate in carrying into effect the Continental Association. [1775-05-15] New-York Committee; Lasher, John; Ritzma, Rodol.; Stockholm, Andrew; Banker, Christopher; Fleming, Edward; Lott, Abraham P.. [S4-V2-p0604] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Copies of the General Association of New-York, left in the several Wards of the City for signature, all persons recommended to sign it as speedily as possible. [1775-05-15] New-York Committee; Low, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0605] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from New-York Committee to the Continental Congress, enclosing copies of Letters, with authentick intelligence of the capture of Ticonderoga. [1775-05-15] New-York Committee; Low, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0605] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Newburgh, New-York, Committee. A number of persons having neglected or refused to sign the Association, they are requested to do so, such as do not sign it on or before the 29th instant, to be considered enemies to the Country, and no person shall have any dealings with them. [1775-05-15] New-York, Newburgh Committee of Correspondence and Observation; Ecker, Wolver. [S4-V2-p0606] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Inhabitants of Cornwall Precinct, in Orange County, New-York, choose Deputies to the Provincial Congress. [1775-05-15] New-York, Cornwall Freeholders; Woodhull, Jesse. [S4-V2-p0834] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Providence, Rhode-Island,Town Meeting. Committees authorized to purchase Arms for all able-bodied Men not able to purchase themselves, and the Town stock of Powder and Lead to be made up into Cartridges. [1775-05-15] Rhode-Island, Providence Town Meeting. [S4-V2-p0607] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Worcester, Massachusetts. [1775-05-24] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0608] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Newport, Rhode-Island. Two Sloops at Bedford taken by Capt. Lindsay, of the Falcon, sloop-of-war, retaken by the People of Bedford, one of the enemy was killed, two were wounded, and thirteen made prisoners. [1775-05-10] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0608] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Recantation of the Rev. Samuel Dana, of Groton, Massachusetts. [1775-05-10] Dana, Samuel; Massachusetts, Groton Committee of Correspondence; Prescott, Oliver; Prescott, james; Sartell, Josiah; Farnsworth, Isaac; Child, Moses. [S4-V2-p0608] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. [1775-05-15] Gage, Thomas, General. [S4-V2-p0609] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from several Towns in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, to the Committee of Safety, requesting the appointment of Colonel Lemuel Robinson, of Dorchester. [1775-05-15] Bent, William; Vose, Elijah; Turner, Seth; Vinton, John; Wild, Silas; Gould, Jacob; Trefont, Joseph; Loring, Jotham; Lincoln, James; Cushing, Job. [S4-V2-p0609] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of John Boice and Hugh McLean to the Massachusetts Congress, requesting that certain enlisted Soldiers, who are Paper Makers, may be discharged. [1775-05-15] Boice, John; McLean, Hugh. [S4-V2-p0609] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Committee at Berwick to the Committee of Safety, objecting to the appointment of one Alexander Scammell, who lives in New-Hampshire. [1775-05-15] Prime, Joseph; Hamilton, Jonathan, Jr.; Pray, Joseph, Jr.; Lord, Mark. [S4-V2-p0610] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Jedediah Preble to the Committee of Safety, objecting to the raising of two Regiments in the County of Cumberland. [1775-05-15] Preble, Jedediah. [S4-V2-p0610] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Eastern Indians. [1775-05-15] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0610] [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]
Letter from the Committee and Selectmen of Marlow, New-Hampshire, to the Provincial Committee. They are not able to support a Delegate to the Provincial Congress, but with their lives and interests will assist in defence of the Colonies. [1775-05-15] New-Hampshire, Marlow Committee of Correspondence; Guftin, Samuel; Hadley, Nathaniel; Lewis, Elias. [S4-V2-p0612] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Town of Alstead, in New-Hampshire, to the Delegates of the Province, now sitting at Exeter. Cannot support a Delegate to the Congress, but will abide by all its decisions. [1775-05-15] New-Hampshire, Alstead Committee of Correspondence; Prentiss, Nathaniel. [S4-V2-p0612] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Inhabitants of Augusta County, Virginia, on the West side of Laurel Hill, at Pittsburgh, appoint a Committee for the District. The Committee resolve to support all the American measures, make provision for embodying the Militia, procuring Arms and Ammunition, and for cultivating a friendship with the Indians. [1775-05-16] Virginia, Augusta County Committee; Berwick, James. [S4-V2-p0612] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Instructions to John Harvie and George Roote, Delegates from the People West of Laurel Hill, to the Virginia Convention. [1775-05-16] Virginia, Augusta County Committee; Berwick, James. [S4-V2-p0614] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Dr. Franklin to Dr. Priestley. [1775-05-16] Franklin, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0615] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Inhabitants of the County of Westmoreland, in Pennsylvania. It is the indispensable duty of every American, by every means which God has put in his power, to resist and oppose the system of tyranny and oppression attempted to be exercised by the Parliament and Ministry of Great Britain. Association of the Inhabitants of Westmoreland County, in Pennsylvania. [1775-05-16] Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County Meeting. [S4-V2-p0615] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Council of Pennsylvania, Eight Indians, who arrived in Philadelphia on the 14th, brought before the Council, Speech of one of the Indians to the Governour. [1775-05-16] Pennsylvania Council. [S4-V2-p0616] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
The Indians sent for, and the Governour began delivering a Speech in reply to them, but having a bad translator, it was postponed to the 20th instant. [1775-05-18] Pennsylvania Council. [S4-V2-p0617] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Speech of the Governour in reply to that of the Indians. The Indians receive three hundred Dollars, and signed a receipt for it on the back of the Deed executed at Fort Stanwix, in 1768. [1775-05-20] Pennsylvania Council. [S4-V2-p0617] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee. The Ward Companies of Militia recommended to enrol their Men in the different Beats, to be in readiness to take their tour of duty as a Military Night Watch. [1775-05-16] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0617] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee. The Ward Companies of Militia recommended to enrol their Men in the different Beats, to be in readiness to take their tour of duty as a Military Night Watch. [1775-05-17] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0618] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Delegates from New-York in the Continental Congress, to the New-York Committee, enclosing a Resolution of the Congress of the 15th, recommending to the Inhabitants, in the event of the arrival of any Troops, to act on the defensive, so long as may be consistent with their safety and security. [1775-05-15] Continental Congress; Duane, James; Lewis, Francis; Jay, John; Morris, Lewis; Livingston, Philip; Alsop, John; Thomson, Charles. [S4-V2-p0618] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Dutchess County, New-York, Committee, certify the election of Deputies to the Provincial Congress. [1775-05-16] New-York, Dutchess County Committee; Hopkins, Roswell; Robinson, Beverly; Smith, James; Bockner, Abraham; Humphrey, Cornelius; Cooper, Ananias; Swartwout, Jacob; Lewis, Jonathan; Benson, Egbert. [S4-V2-p0834] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut to the Massachusetts Congress. The expedition against Ticonderoga was set on foot by some private persons in Connecticut, and carried into effect without the aid of those afterwards sent from Massachusetts, but as it was done for the common cause, they will not contend for the precedency. [1775-05-16] Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence; Wolcott, Erastus; Williams, William; Bishop, Samuel; Parsons, Samuel H.. [S4-V2-p0618] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee. [1775-05-16] Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0619] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, representing the dangerous situation of affairs there without a regular Government, and asking their advice about taking up and exercising the powers of Government: they also request the Congress to take the general direction of the Army. [1775-05-16] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Warren, Joseph; Freeman, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0620] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Henry Young Brown to the Massachusetts Congress. Communicates his suspicions that the Indians are about to take sides with Canada. There are but ten Guns, twenty pounds of Powder, and half a hundred of Lead, in the Town of Brownfield. Applies to the Congress for assistance. [1775-05-16] Massachusetts, Brownfield Committee; Brown, Henry Young. [S4-V2-p0621] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Middlesex County, Virginia, Committee. Thomas Haddin, having reviled the Continental Association, and refused to sign it, is held forth to the publick as an enemy to American Liberty. [1775-04-17] Virginia, Middlesex County Committee. [S4-V2-p0668] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Cumberland County, Virginia, Committee, approve of the Resolution of Maryland to stop Exportations to Quebeck, and c., and in consequence of the alarming situation of American affairs, especially in the Province of New-York, recommend a Colony Convention be immediately called. [1775-05-17] Virginia, Cumberland County Committee; Carrington, George. [S4-V2-p0622] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of Cumberland County to the Inhabitants of the lower parts of Virginia, offering protection and support to their Wives and Children, in case of an invasion of the Colony by sea. [1775-05-17] Virginia, Cumberland County Committee; Carrington, George. [S4-V2-p0622] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Cecil County, Maryland, Committee. Charles Gordon having maliciously aspersed the Continental Congress and the Provincial Convention, is declared an enemy to the Country, and as such none are to have dealings or communications with him. [1775-05-17] Maryland, Cecil County Committee; Veazey, James, Jr; Veazey, John, III; Smith, David. [S4-V2-p0622] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
John Brown arrived at Philadelphia from Ticonderoga, an Express to the General Congress, with an account of the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and of an attempt made by the British to find a passage for an Army from Canada to Boston. [1775-05-20] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0623] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colonel Easton at the Provincial Congress in Watertown, with an account of the Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. [1775-05-18] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0624] [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]
Votes in First Company of Brookhaven, with the Poll Lists, for the choice of a Deputy to the Provincial Congress of New-York. [1775-05-17] Woodhull, Nathan; Thompson, Jonathan; Roe, Nathaniel; Woodhull, Richard; Thompson, Samuel; Strong, Selah, Jr.; Brewster, Caleb; Roe, Nathaniel, Jr.; Roe, Philip; Roe, John; Smith, Thomas; Hawkins, Alexander; Hawkins, David; Hawkins, Simeon; Hawkins, Alexander, Jr.; Hawkins, Jacob; Smith, Edmund; Davis, Samuel; Hawkins, Joseph; Davis, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0835] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Votes in Second Company of Brookhaven, with the Poll Lists, for the choice of a Deputy to the Provincial Congress of New-York. [1775-05-17] Sill, Wissell; Miller, Ebenezer; Brown, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0835] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Votes in Third Company of Brookhaven, with the Poll Lists, for the choice of a Deputy to the Provincial Congress of New-York. [1775-05-17] Smith, William; Woodhull, Nathaniel; Smith, Josiah. [S4-V2-p0835] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Votes in Fourth Company of Brookhaven, with the Poll Lists, for the choice of a Deputy to the Provincial Congress of New-York. [1775-05-16] Dayton, Ebenezer; Woodhull, John; Smith, William. [S4-V2-p0836] [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]
Letter from the Congress of Massachusetts to the Assembly of Connecticut, suggesting the propriety of having the Cannon at Ticonderoga and Crown Point removed immediately to the Camp at Cambridge, and the appointing of Colonel Arnold to take charge of them down, with all possible haste, to prevent disputes between him and other officers. [1775-05-17] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0808] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committees of Correspondence for the several Towns and Districts of Worcester County, in Massachusetts, requested to meet at the Court-House on Wednesday next, May 24th. [1775-05-24] Massachusetts, Worcester County Committee; Young, William. [S4-V2-p0700] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letters of Governour Hutchinson, lately discovered, show what a slave he has been to the Ministry. Copy of one from him to General Gage, enclosing one from Bernard, in 1771. [1775-05-17] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0632] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Northborough to General Ward, charging Ebenezer Cutler, late of Groton, as an enemy to his country. [1775-05-17] Massachusetts, Northborough Committee of Correspondence; Bass, Gillam. [S4-V2-p0632] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Committee, to the Provincial Congress. Request to know if a Vessel may load with Masts. [1775-05-17] New-Hampshire, Portsmouth Committee of Correspondence; Wentworth, H.. [S4-V2-p0632] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Declaration by the Grand Jury of Newcastle, Delaware. [1775-05-18] Delaware, Newcastle Committee; Monroe, George; Morton, Morton; Hemphill, William; Kean, Thomas; Evans, George; Anderson, William; James, John; Kirkwood, Robert; Howell, David; Hyatt, John; Taylor, John; Read, William; Clark, William; Jones, John; Evans, John; Cooch, Thomas; Finney, David; Latimer, James; Cantwell, R.; Malcolm, John; Craghead, George; Stapler, John; Patterson, William; Patterson, Samuel; McKim, Thomas; McKinley, John. [S4-V2-p0633] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Arthur St. Clair to Joseph Shippen, Jun., enclosing Letter of James Cavet, dated May 13th. Yesterday a County Meeting, in Westmoreland, passed Resolutions to arm and discipline the Militia, and formed an Association. [1775-05-18] St. Clair, Arthur. [S4-V2-p0633] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
General Committee of Association for Newark, in New-Jersey, stop all Exportations to Quebeck, Nova-Scotia, Georgia, and Newfoundland. [1775-05-18] New-Jersey, Newark General Committee of Association; Ogden, Lewis. [S4-V2-p0634] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Instructions to the Deputies elected to represent the Town of Newark, in Essex County, in the Provincial Congress of New-Jersey. [1775-05-18] New-Jersey, Newark General Committee of Association; Ogden, Lewis. [S4-V2-p0634] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee. Committee appointed to institute a Military Night Watch. [1775-05-18] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0636] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Committee to the Governour of Connecticut, thank him for the kindness of Connecticut in sending Troops to their assistance, but request he may direct their encampment on the Western frontiers of Connecticut. [1775-05-18] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0636] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Directions for a Military Night Watch in the City of New-York. [1775-05-18] New-York Committee; Brasher, Abraham; Fleming, Edward; Lasher, John; McDougall, Alexander. [S4-V2-p0636] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Directions for a Military Night Watch in the City of New-York -- May 19. [1775-05-19] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0637] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Directions for a Military Night Watch in the City of New-York -- May 20. [1775-05-20] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0637] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Palatine District, Tryon County, New-York, to the Albany Committee. [1775-05-18] New-York, Palatine District Committee. [S4-V2-p0637] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Guy Johnson to the Committee of Schenectady, New-York. [1775-05-18] Johnson, Guy, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0638] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Authentick Account of the taking of the Fortresses at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, by a party of Connecticut Forces. [1775-05-18] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0638] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Ethan Allen to James Morrison and the Merchants that are friendly to the cause of Liberty in Montreal, soliciting their immediate assistance, in Provisions, Ammunition, and Spirituous Liquors, not as a donation, for he is ready to pay for them. [1775-05-18] Allen, Ethan. [S4-V2-p0639] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Camp at Cambridge. Information from Halifax, that the People destroyed a quantity of Hay, purchased and ready to be shipped for the Dragoons at Boston. [1775-05-18] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0639] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel John Stark to the Provincial Congress of New-Hampshire. [1775-05-18] Stark, John, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0639] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the New-Hampshire Congress to Governour Wentworth. The British Troops being sent to America to enforce Acts of Parliament by fire, sword, and famine, request to know from him the truth of a statement that he has made application for two Regiments, to be stationed at Portsmouth. [1775-05-18] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0640] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Caroline County, Virginia, Committee. Resolutions on Lord Dunmore's Letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated December 24, 1774, his Proclamation of the 3d of May last, and on Captain Montague's Letter to Thomas Nelson, threatening to burn the Town of York. [1775-05-19] Virginia, Caroline County Committee; Hawes, Samuel, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0640] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the Inhabitants of Virginia, on the conduct of Lord Dunmore, and in defence of Patrick Henry. [1775-05-19] Brutus (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0641] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the Inhabitants of the Manor of Cortlandt, in New-York, on the efforts of the Tories to obtain the ascendancy in the Manor, and their attempt to commit the People to "The Loyalist's Test" last winter. [1775-05-19] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0644] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Committee of Supplies. [1775-05-19] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0645] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Benedict Arnold to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. Surprised and took St. John's, with the King's Sloop of seventy tons, on the 18th instant. Allen is about to keep possession of St. John's, with eighty or a hundred men, this is a wild, impracticable scheme, if it could be carried into execution. A thousand or fifteen hundred men will be necessary to repair and keep Ticonderoga this summer, List of Cannon taken at Crown Point, List of Cannon taken at Ticonderoga. [1775-05-19] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0645] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Return of Ordnance Stores found at Ticonderoga. [1775-05-13] Romans, B.; Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0646] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress, urging the immediate settlement of the Regiments, "if we would save our Country,". [1775-05-19] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p0647] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James Russell to Joseph Warren, President of the Provincial Congress. [1775-05-19] Russell, James. [S4-V2-p0647] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Abijah Brown to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. He has removed the Cannon from Waltham to Watertown, and is ready to march to Cambridge. [1775-05-19] Brown, Abijah. [S4-V2-p0647] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Benjamin Thompson, of Concord, in New-Hampshire, to the Committee of Safety. Requests a thorough examination into the charges against him, of being inimical to the liberties of this Country. [1775-05-19] Thompson, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0647] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-05-19] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0648] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-05-23] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0648] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. Orders to Winborn Adams, and nine others, each to enlist one Company of sixty-two able-bodied Men: form of enlistment. [1775-05-24] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0648] [Document Details][Complete Volume]