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Committee of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The application of Mr. Weems, for permission to purchase an Anchor and Cable of Captain Carcaud, of the Ship Industry, rejected. No person can purchase or receive them consistent with the Continental Association. [1775-05-20] Maryland, Anne Arundel County Committee. [S4-V2-p0659] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Field-Officers chosen for Newcastle County, Delaware. [1775-05-20] Delaware, Newcastle County Captains and Subaltern Officers. [S4-V2-p0660] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-Jersey Assembly to their Delegates in the Continental Congress. [1775-05-20] New-Jersey, Provincial Congress; Smith, Richard. [S4-V2-p0661] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Petition of James Rivington to the Continental Congress. [1775-05-20] Rivington, James. [S4-V2-p0836] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Town Meeting in Brooklyn, King's County, New-York. Their reasons for uniting with the other Counties of the Colony in support of their rights, choose Deputies to the Provincial Congress, and pledge themselves to abide by the directions of the Congress. [1775-05-20] New-York, Brooklyn Town Meeting; Lefferts, Leffert. [S4-V2-p0837] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Col. Guy Johnson to the Magistrates and others of Palatine, Canajoharie, and the upper Districts in Tryon County, New-York, has had repeated accounts that a body of New-Englanders were to come to seize him. If the Indians find their Superintendent disturbed they will take dreadful revenge. [1775-05-20] Johnson, Guy, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0661] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Colonel Guy Johnson to the Magistrates and Committee of Schenectady, and Mayor of Albany. [1775-05] Johnson, Guy, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0661] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Act of the Rhode-Island Assembly, prohibiting the Oath of Office being administered to Governour Wanton. [1775-05-20] Rhode-Island, General Assembly. [S4-V2-p0662] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts to General Preble, at Falmouth. [1775-05-20] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0663] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Massachusetts Congress, from the Committee appointed to confer with the Congress of New-Hampshire. [1775-05-20] Gerrish, Joseph; Sawyer, Ebenezer. [S4-V2-p0664] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of the New-Hampshire Congress for raising and equipping two thousand Men. [1775-05-20] New-Hampshire, Provincial Convention; Thornton, Matthew. [S4-V2-p0664] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Rev. William Gordon to Joseph Warren. If the Committee will send him Hutchinson's loose Letters, he will examine them, and mark whatever appears to be important to the Publick. [1775-05-20] Gordon, William. [S4-V2-p0664] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the Oneidas from the Mohawks, written at Guy Johnson's. [1775-05] Kannenzaron, Aren (Mohawk); Tegarihoge, Johannes (Mohawk); Deyagodeaghnaweagh (Mohawk); Brant, Joseph, Thayendanegea (Mohawk). [S4-V2-p0664] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Resolutions of the Committee of Tryon County, New-York, on the Letter of Colonel Guy Johnson, of May 20, and on the Letter from the Mohawks to the Oneidas. [1775-05-21] New-York, Tryon County Committee. [S4-V2-p0665] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Palatine District, Tryon County, to the Albany Committee. The communication with Albany is entirely stopped by Colonel Johnson, who has five hundred men to guard his house, which he has fortified. There is not fifty pounds of Powder in the District, they have an open enemy before them, and treacherous friends at their backs. [1775-05-21] New-York, Palatine District Committee. [S4-V2-p0665] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Boston to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. General Gage has broken his engagement with the People of Boston, after they had delivered up their Arms. [1775-05-21] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0666] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-21] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p0666] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from James Sullivan to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-21] Sullivan, James. [S4-V2-p0667] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. [1775-05-21] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0667] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Norfolk, Virginia, Committee, to the Committee for Prince George County, with an examination of Captain Charles Alexander. [1775-05-22] Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Davies, William. [S4-V2-p0528] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Prince William County, Virginia, Committee. Condemn the conduct of Lord Dunmore in regard to the Powder. Justify Patrick Henry in demanding satisfaction for it, as, in their opinion, the violent proceedings of the Troops in Massachusetts would have justified reprisals of a much greater magnitude. [1775-02-22] Virginia, Prince William County Committee; Williams, Evan. [S4-V2-p0667] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Buckingham County, Virginia, Committee. Offer to receive the Wives, Children and Slaves of such of the Inhabitants of the lower Counties as may be driven from their habitations, and will give them Lands to cultivate, and let their Cattle feed with their own. [1775-05-22] Virginia, Buckingham County Committee; Eldridge, Rolfe. [S4-V2-p0667] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Meeting of Inhabitants of Charles County, in Maryland. Appoint Deputies to the General Convention of the Province. [1775-05-22] Maryland, Charles County Inhabitants; Gwinn, John. [S4-V2-p0667] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia to his Friend in Williamsburgh, Virginia. There has been a complete revolution in New-York. The Province is arming, the Governour dare not call his Assembly to receive Lord North's Plan, the Tory leaders have been obliged to fly. [1775-05-22] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0668] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, from their Delegates in the Continental Congress. The Congress have ordered the Forts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point to be demolished, and the warlike Stores to be removed to the south end of Lake George. All the Colonies in Congress are firmly united, and preparing for the worst. [1775-05-22] New-Hampshire Delegates, Continental Congress; Sullivan, John; Langdon, John. [S4-V2-p0669] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

New-York Committee. Motion by Mr. McDougall for a Committee to confer with the Deputies of the County of Albany, now in New-York, whether Albany can furnish Men to garrison Ticonderoga, rejected on motion of Mr. De Lancey. [1775-05-22] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0670] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the New-York Committee to Governour Trumbull, enclosing a copy of the Resolution of Congress for removing the Military Stores from Ticonderoga and Crown Point to the south end of Lake George. [1775-05-22] New-York Committee; Remsen, Henry. [S4-V2-p0671] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deputies for Queen's County to the New-York Provincial Congress chosen by the Freeholders. [1775-05-22] New-York, Queen's County Freeholders. [S4-V2-p0838] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Delegates to the Provincial Congress chosen in King's County, New-York. [1775-05-22] New-York, Kings County Committees; Lott, Abraham E.. [S4-V2-p0838] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Corporation of Albany to Colonel Guy Johnson. If he studies the welfare of his Country he need not be apprehensive of any injury to his person or property. There has been no intention of taking him captive, or offering him any indignity, these reports are only propagated to rouse the Indians to take up arms against the Americans. [1775-05-22] New-York, Albany Mayor and Aldermen. [S4-V2-p0671] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Albany Committee to Colonel Guy Johnson. [1775-05-23] New-York, Albany Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection. [S4-V2-p0672] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Benedict Arnold, Commander at Ticonderoga, to the Albany Committee. On the 13th captured the Garrison at St. John's, and took a King's Sloop of seventy tons, on his return he met one Colonel Allen, with a party for St. John's, who were attacked and defeated by the Regulars. Requests Seamen and Powder may be sent him. [1775-05-22] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0839] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Narrative of the Excursions and Ravages of the King's Troops, under the command of General Gage, on the 19th of April, 1775, together with the Depositions taken by order of Congress to support the truth of it. [1775-05-22] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Freeman, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0673] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Depositions No. 1 to No. 21. [1775-05-22] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0674] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition No. 21. [1775-05-11] Brown, Zachariah; Davis, Thomas, Jr.; Ingraham, Duncan; Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0674] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition No. 22. [1775-05-17] Adams, Hannah; Hastings, Jonathan; Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0674] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Deposition No. 23. [1775-05-19] Cooper, Benjamin; Cooper, Rachel; Dix, Jonas; Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0674] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Ravages of the King's Troops, Damages sustained in Lexington, Damages sustained in Concord. [1775-05-22] Fuller, Abraham; Goodwin, Ichabod; Whitney, Oliver. [S4-V2-p0675] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Samuel Bullard to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-22] Bullard, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0675] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Committee of Supplies to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, complaining of ungenerous treatment from Gen. Ward. [1775-05-22] Massachusetts, Committee of Supplies; Cheever, David. [S4-V2-p0675] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Provincial Congress, with the Letter from Captain Benedict Arnold, of May 11, requesting the Congress to take such measures as they deem necessary. [1775-05-22] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; Palmer, J.. [S4-V2-p0676] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Benedict Arnold. As the affairs of the Expedition began in Connecticut, that Colony has been written to, to take the whole under their direction until the advice, of the Continental Congress can be had. [1775-05-22] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0676] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Governour Tryon. The King received the Petition of the New-York Assembly with the most gracious expressions of regard. The Memorial to the Lords, and Representation to the Commons contained claims which made it impossible for Parliament, consistent with its dignity, to receive them. [1775-05-23] Legge, William, Earl of Dartmouth. [S4-V2-p0677] [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]

Letter from William Hooper, at Philadelphia, to Samuel Johnston, in North-Carolina. The strict secrecy which Congress enjoins upon its Members prevents his communicating any information of their Proceedings. The most perfect harmony subsists among its Members. The character of New-York is no longer suspicious, they take an active share in the opposition. Government has sent them the Asia, Man-of-War, to give spirit to the Tories. -- North-Carolina will probably be called on for Money, and a Provincial Convention should be immediately called. [1775-05-23] Hooper, William. [S4-V2-p0679] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Address of Williamsburgh Volunteers to Peyton Randolph. [1775-05-25] Virginia, Williamsburgh Volunteers. [S4-V2-p0680] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Mr. Randolph's Answer. [1775-05-25] Randolph, Peyton. [S4-V2-p0680] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Westmoreland County, Virginia, Committee. Resolutions on Lord Dunmore's Speech in Council, on the 2d of May, and his Proclamation of the 3d of May. [1775-05-23] Virginia, Westmoreland County Virginia; Davenport, James. [S4-V2-p0681] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Talbot County, Maryland, Committee of Observation. Proceedings in relation to the Ship Johnston, belonging to Mr. Gildart, of Liverpool, loaded with Salt and Dry Goods, and bound to the Chesapeake Bay. [1775-05-23] Maryland, Talbot County Committee; Wilson, Robert. [S4-V2-p0682] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Robert Hanna, James Cavet and Thomas Scott, at Pittsburgh, to Governour Penn, complaining of their treatment from the authorities of Virginia. [1775-05-23] Hanna, Robert; Cavet, James; Scott, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0683] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Aeneas Mackay and others, at Pittsburgh, to Governour Penn. They are treated by the Officers under Virginia like degraded beings, not entitled to the common rights of mankind, the very name of a Pennsylvanian is sufficient to render a man odious there. [1775-05-23] Hanna, Robert; Cavet, James; Smith, Devereux; Mackay, Aeneas; Scott, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0684] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from a Committee of the Assembly of Connecticut to the Speaker. The New-York Committee will supply Provisions to the Connecticut Forces at Ticonderoga. St. Luke La Corne has sent Belts to all the Northern Tribes of Indians, to engage them to take up Arms against the New-England Colonies. It is supposed the Plebeians of the Canadas will not willingly engage against the Colonists, but the Nobles are their bitter enemies. [1775-05-23] Wales, Nathaniel, Jr.; Burr, Thaddeus; Edwards, Pierpont. [S4-V2-p0685] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from the Albany Committee to the Committee of Palatine District, in Tryon County. [1775-05-23] New-York, Albany Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection. [S4-V2-p0841] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Speech of the Mohawks to the Magistrates and Committee of Schenectady, and the Mayor and Committee of Albany, delivered by Little Abraham, May 20. [1775-05-20] Abraham (Mohawk); Kirkland, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0841] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Answer to Little Abraham's Speech by the Magistrates and Committee of Albany and Schenectady, May 20. [1775-05-20] New-York, Schenectady Committee; New-York, Albany Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection. [S4-V2-p0842] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Reply of the Mohawks to the Answer of the Magistrates, and c., of Albany and Schenectady. [1775-05-25] Abraham (Mohawk); New-York, Schenectady Committee; New-York, Albany Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection; Marselis, Gysbert; Schuyler, Peter P.; Visher, John; Roseboom, John; Yates, Christopher; Johnson, Guy, Colonel; Claus, Daniel, Colonel; Allen, William. [S4-V2-p0842] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Benedict Arnold to the General Assembly of Connecticut. Defeat of Colonel Allen at St. John's, there are four hundred Regulars there, making preparation to cross the Lake, with the design of retaking Crown Point and Ticonderoga. [1775-05-23] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0840] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Benedict Arnold, Commander-in-Chief at Crown Point, to Captain Noah Lee, at Ticonderoga. Preparations of the Regulars and Indians for retaking Ticonderoga and Crown Point, requests every man within fifty miles of Skenesborough may be sent to Ticonderoga with Powder and Provisions. [1775-05-23] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0841] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Letter from Ticonderoga to a Gentleman in Hartford, Connecticut, giving a Journal of Military operations from the 11th to the 19th of May. [1775-05-23] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0685] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Committee from Connecticut to New-York Congress. [1775-05-21] Wales, Nathaniel; Burr, Thaddeus. [S4-V2-p0838] [Document Details][Complete Volume]