619 Documents
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the New-York Congress. Colonel Hinman with one thousand Men ordered to Ticonderoga, for the protection of that Post and Crown Point. [1775-05-30] Great Britain, Secretary of State. [S4-V2-p0848] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Remarks on this Official paragraph, (Note). [1775-06-01] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0848] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Arthur Lee, contradicting the statement in the London Gazette, and informing those who wish to see the original affidavits which confirm the account, that they are deposited with the Lord Mayor of London, for inspection. [1775-05-30] Lee, Arthur. [S4-V2-p0848] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel James Easton to the provincial Congress, Committee of Safety, and Council of War, in Cambridge and Watertown. The necessity of protecting Ticonderoga, Connecticut will furnish Men for its defence, but expects Massachusetts to organize and pay them. Offers to take the command of a Regiment, and recommends other persons for appointments. [1775-05-30] Easton, James. [S4-V2-p0849] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the New-York Congress, from their Delegates in the Continental Congress. The proceedings of the Provincial Congress approved by the Continental Congress, they are requested to come to a speedy determination on the Paper Currency. Further suggestions for their consideration. [1775-05-30] Duane, James; Alsop, John; Clinton, George; Morris, Lewis; Livingston, Robert, Jr.; Livingston, Philip. [S4-V2-p0850] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, enclosing Report on Paper Currency: it is sent to show their opinion of what ought to be done, and not to be laid before the Continental Congress. [1775-06-30] . [S4-V2-p1264] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Albany Committee. One thousand Men ordered to proceed to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, expects the Provincial Congress of New-York will forward Provisions. [1775-05-30] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p0850] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Jonathan Parsons, Jun., at St. John's, Newfoundland, to the New-York Committee of Safety. Hatred of the People there towards the Americans, for their opposition to the British Government, yet, if they are short of Provisions, they will probably petition the Continental Congress for a supply of Bread and Flour. [1775-05-30] Parsons, Jonathan, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0851] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Declaration of John Nutting and others, of their reasons for signing the Address to Governour Hutchinson. [1775-05-30] Nutting, John; Goodale, N.; Dalgleish, Andrew; Barnard, Thomas; Holyoke, E. A.; Pynchon, William; Putnam, Ebenezer; Cabot, Francis; Sparhawk, N.; Dabney, Nathaniel; Pickman, William; Pickman, C. Gayton; Turner, John. [S4-V2-p0852] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Declaration of John Nutting declared satisfactory by the Committee of Salem. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Salem Committee of Safety and Correspondence; Derby, Richard, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0852] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Joshua Upham to the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Brownfield: explanation of his conduct. [1775-05-20] Upham, Joshua. [S4-V2-p0852] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Joshua Upham voted satisfactory by the Committee. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Brookfield Committee of Correspondence; Dodge, Joshua. [S4-V2-p0853] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts to the Town of Sudbury. Have examined and dismissed Ezra Taylor. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0853] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Selectmen of Hopkinton to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Hopkinton Selectmen. [S4-V2-p0853] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Committee for Salem. Expects an attack this night from the British Forces in Boston. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Manchester Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p0854] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Committee for Salem. Expects an attack this night from the British Forces in Boston. [1775-05-29] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p0854] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
John Baker to the Committee of Correspondence in Newburyport. [1775-05-30] Baker, John, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0854] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Newburyport Committee to Hampton Committee. [1775-05-30] Massachusetts, Newburyport Committee of Correspondence; Greenleaf, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0854] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from London to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. Account of the defeat of the British Troops on the 19th of April has been received. The intelligence has panick-struck the Administration and their Tory dependants, who have daily denounced the Americans as cowards. [1775-05-31] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0854] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee for Mecklenburgh County, North-Carolina. Resolutions declaring all Laws and Commissions derived from the authority of the King or Parliament null and void, and the Civil Constitutions of the Colonies wholly suspended, and that no Legislative or Executive power exists in the Colonies, other than the Provincial Congresses, under the direction of the Continental Congress. [1775-05-31] North-Carolina, Mecklenburgh Committee. [S4-V2-p0855] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
The Declaration of Independence by the Citizens of Mecklenburgh County, North-Carolina, on the twentieth day of May, 1775, with the accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1775-05-20] North-Carolina, Mecklenburgh Committee. [S4-V2-p0855] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
The Declaration of Independence by the Citizens of Mecklenburgh County, North-Carolina, on the twentieth day of May, 1775, with the accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1775-05-20] North-Carolina, Mecklenburgh Committee. [S4-V2-p0856] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1819-05-20] McKnitt, J.. [S4-V2-p0856] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1830-11-25] Henderson, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0858] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1819-12-07] Jack, James; Weston, Job; Oliver, James. [S4-V2-p0858] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1830-11-29] Alexander, Alphonso; Alexander, Amos; McKnitt, J.. [S4-V2-p0859] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1819-11-16] Cummins, Francis. [S4-V2-p0859] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1775-10-04] Graham, J.. [S4-V2-p0859] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [Undated] Hunter, Humphrey. [S4-V2-p0861] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1820-02-18] Graham, George; Hutchinson, William; Clark, Jonas; Robinson, Robert. [S4-V2-p0862] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1820-01-20] Simeson, John. [S4-V2-p0863] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1830-10-08] Alexander, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0863] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [Undated] Wilson, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0864] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1830-10-05] Davidson, John. [S4-V2-p0864] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1830-10-01] Ramsey, J. G. M.. [S4-V2-p0864] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1827-10-11] Johnson, James. [S4-V2-p0864] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [1830-10-04] Johnson, Elijah; Wilhite, James. [S4-V2-p0864] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Documents, published by the Governour, under the authority and direction of the General Assembly of North-Carolina, (Note). [Undated] Force, Peter, editor. [S4-V2-p0864] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Association recommended by the Committee of Chester County, Pennsylvania, to the People of the County. [1775-05-31] Pennsylvania, Chester County Committee; Johnson, Francis. [S4-V2-p0859] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter addressed to Lord Sandwich, on his charge of Cowardice against the Americans. [1775-05-31] An Expectant (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0861] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Col. George Washington to George William Fairfax, in England, with an account of the Engagement between the Ministerial Troops and the People of Massachusetts-Bay. [1775-05-31] Washington, George. [S4-V2-p0865] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Col. Henshaw to Benedict Arnold. Connecticut has ordered Colonel Hinman to take command at Ticonderoga, with one thousand Men, and to repair and defend that Post. [1775-05-31] Henshaw, Joseph, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0721] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Worcester, Massachusetts, Convention, appoint a Committee to draw up a Remonstrance to the Provincial Congress, against persons having seats there who do not vote away their own money for publick purposes, in common with others, and also to consider the right of persons inimical to the Country to vote in Town-Meetings. [1775-05-31] Massachusetts, Worcester Convention. [S4-V2-p0865] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Representation of Robert Temple to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. [1775-05-31] Temple, Robert. [S4-V2-p0866] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Stephen Nye, at Sandwich, to Nathaniel Freeman. Relation of Captain Lindsey's proceedings at the Islands. [1775-05-31] Nye, Stephen. [S4-V2-p0866] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Selectmen of the Town of Scarborough to the Massachusetts Congress. Their reasons for not choosing a Representative. [1775-05-31] Massachusetts, Scarborough Selectmen; Fogg, Reuben; Libbee, Peter; Fabyan, Joshua. [S4-V2-p0867] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Selectmen of Edgartown to the Massachusetts Congress. They are firmly attached to the cause of their Country, yet the peculiar circumstances in which they are placed renders it inexpedient for them to elect a Member to the Congress. [1775-05-31] Massachusetts, Edgartown Selectmen; Cooke, Thomas; Smith, Ebenezer. [S4-V2-p0867] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Inhabitants of Berwick to the Massachusetts Congress. The Towns along the sea-coast are exposed to the ravages of the enemy, and for want of Arms and Ammunition, the People cannot defend their Wives and Children against the King's Troops: they, therefore, pray for assistance. [1775-05-31] Massachusetts, Berwick Freeholders; Marshall, Nahum. [S4-V2-p0867] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Selectmen of Bedford to the Massachusetts Congress. The Town has declined to send a Member to the Congress, but will freely comply with all their wise and salutary measures. [1775-05-31] Massachusetts, Bedford Selectmen; Davis, Stephen. [S4-V2-p0868] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Congress to General Ward, requesting Colonel Stark may be sent to them. [1775-05-31] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0868] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Congress to Colonel Stark, requesting him to repair to Exeter without loss of time. [1775-05-31] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0868] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Committee, to the Provincial Congress, suggesting measures of defence against an expected attempt to burn the Town by a British Ship-of-War. [1775-05-31] New-Hampshire, Portsmouth Committee of Correspondence; Wentworth, H.. [S4-V2-p0868] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Meshech Weare to the New-Hampshire Congress. Recommending measures of defence on the Sea-Coast. [1775-05-31] Weare, Meshech. [S4-V2-p0869] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Captain Winborn Adams to the New-Hampshire Congress. Waits for the direction of the Congress before he complies with a request from Portsmouth, to go there and assist in destroying the Men-of-War in the Harbour. [1775-05-31] Adams, Winborn. [S4-V2-p0869] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the New-Hampshire Congress, from Charles Johnston, Clerk to the Committee of the Northern Regiment, in the County of Grafton. Preparations in Canada for invading the Provinces. Four or five hundred Indians collected, and Governour Carleton enlisting Men in Canada. The Inhabitants are in want of Ammunition, Arms, and assistance. [1775-05-31] New-Hampshire, Grafton County Committee of the Northern Regiment; Johnston, Charles. [S4-V2-p0869] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from London to a Gentleman in Watertown. The Ministry are in great consternation since the intelligence by Captain Derby. They wait for General Gage's Despatches, to determine what they will do. [1775-06-01] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0870] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York. State of publick opinion in England on the arrival of the news of the defeat and retreat of the Detachments under Lord Percy and Colonel Smith. [1775-06-01] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0870] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from W. Jones, at Savannah, to the Committee of Donations, Boston. The unhappy divisions in Georgia have hitherto prevented their contributing to the support of the Poor of Boston, but they now send sixty-three barrels of Rice, and one hundred and twenty-two Pounds sterling, in Specie, and expect soon to send another token of their regard. [1775-06-01] Jones, W.. [S4-V2-p0871] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Independent Company of Albemarle, Virginia, to the Williamsburgh Volunteers. The landing any armed force in the Colony will justify opposition. [1775-06-01] Virginia, Albemarle Independent Company; Lewis, Charles, Captain; Gilmer, George, Lieutenant; Marks, John, Lieutenant. [S4-V2-p0872] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Easton, Pennsylvania, to Richard Henry Lee. Suggesting offers to be made by the Continental Congress to the King, for a reconciliation. [1775-06-01] Philopatria (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0872] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, transmitting important intelligence just received from Albany, Watertown, and Hartford. They have no Money nor Powder, and cannot have Money until they receive the directions of the Congress, who ought to assign the several quotas of Men and Money to each of the Colonies. [1775-06-01] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0873] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Memorial of John Sparding, living at Ticonderoga Landing, to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-01] Sparding, John. [S4-V2-p0873] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Sub-Committee of the City and County of Albany. New-York being unable to garrison Ticonderoga, Crown Point, or Fort George, applied to the Eastern Colonies for assistance: and Connecticut has sent one thousand Men there, under Colonel Hinman. There is no Powder in New-York. [1775-06-01] . [S4-V2-p1269] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Camp, near Boston, to a Gentleman in New-York. Account of the attack on the Provincials by the King's Troops at Noddle-Island and Hog-Island. [1775-06-01] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0874] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Declaration of Alexander Walker, one of the signers of the Address to Governour Hutchinson. [1775-06-01] Walker, Alexander; Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; Derby, Richard, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0875] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
An Address to the Americans. They are called upon by the providence of God to fight for their Liberties. [1775-06-01] An American (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0875] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the Pastors of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts to the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-01] Langdon, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0875] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolution of the Convention of Congregational Ministers, offering their services to officiate as Chaplains to the Army. [1775-06-01] Massachusetts, Convention of Ministers; Adams, Amos. [S4-V2-p0876] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Selectmen of Lunenburgh to the Massachusetts Congress, requesting to be excused from furnishing two half barrels of Powder from their Town stock for the Army, as it will leave them but thirty pounds for their own defence. [1775-06-01] Massachusetts, Lunenburgh Selectmen; Kimball, George. [S4-V2-p0876] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of William Tallman and others, to the Massachusetts Congress, requesting the Vessels they have fitted out at great expense for Whaling Voyages, may be permitted to proceed to sea. [1775-06-01] Talman, William; Church, G.; Williams, John; Jarvis, Leonard; Howland, John; Maxfield, Zadock; Ray, Uriah, Jr.; Howland, Isaac; Alden, John; Russell, Joseph; Shepherd, David; Claghorn, William; Smith, Abraham; Williams, Lemuel; Russell, Joseph, Jr.; Russell, Barnabas; Russell, Seth; Maxfield, Patrick; Smith, Daniel. [S4-V2-p0876] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Col. Benedict Arnold, highly approving the acquisitions he has made at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, on the Lake, and c., they regret his repeated requests to send some one to succeed him in the command, and request him to continue until New-York or Connecticut shall take the charge of maintaining the Posts. [Undated] . [S4-V2-p1382] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the New-Hampshire Congress, requesting them to unite in the defence and security of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. [1775-06-01] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0876] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Assembly of Connecticut. Maintaining a Post at Ticonderoga or Crown Point is of the utmost importance. New-York does not intend to dismantle these Posts entirely, but only to supply from them such Fortifications as may be erected at the south end of Lake George. [1775-06-01] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0877] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Massachusetts Congress. The Provincial Congress of New-York are desirous to maintain the important Posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and Albany will afford their utmost assistance for securing these Posts for the common defence. [1775-06-01] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p0877] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Joseph Kelly, of Nottingham-West, to the New-Hampshire Congress. [1775-06-01] Kelly, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0878] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the President of the Continental Congress to the New-York Congress, enclosing a Resolution of May 31, and requesting their immediate compliance with it, so far as respects the furnishing Batteaus, Provisions, Stores, and c., at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. [1775-05-31] . [S4-V2-p1271] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
An Old Man's Company formed in Reading, Pennsylvania. It consists of eighty Germans, of the age of forty and upwards. The person who led them at their first assembling under arms is ninety-seven years of age. [1775-06-002] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0878] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
List of the Committees for the several Districts in Tryon County, New-York. [1775-06-002] New-York, Tryon County Committee. [S4-V2-p0878] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee for Tryon County to Colonel Guy Johnson. The People have quietly assembled, signed the General Association, and appointed a Committee. It is their determination to do what they can to save their Country, and will, if called upon, be the foremost to take the field. They request him to dissuade the Indians from interfering in the dispute between the Mother Country and the Colonies. [1775-06-02] New-York, Tryon County Committee. [S4-V2-p0879] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to John Holt, approving of his publishing and putting his name on the Address against unlawful Standing Armies. [1775-06-02] A Club of Congressionists (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0880] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
No Standing Army in the British Colonies: or an Address to the Inhabitants of the Colony of New-York, against unlawful Standing Armies. [1775-06-02] An Anti-Despot (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0881] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter of Robert and John Murray to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-02] Murray, Robert; Murray, John. [S4-V2-p0887] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Memorial of Robert and John Murray to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-02] Continental Congress; Thomson, Charles; Murray, Robert; Murray, John. [S4-V2-p0887] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Memorial of Robert and John Murray, Merchants of the City of New-York, to the Continental Congress. [1775-05] Murray, Robert; Murray, John. [S4-V2-p0889] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers accompanying the Memorial. [1774-09-07] Murray, Robert; Murray, John. [S4-V2-p0890] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers accompanying the Memorial. [1774-10-05] Murray, Robert; Murray, John. [S4-V2-p0890] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers accompanying the Memorial. [1775-02-20] Murray, Robert; Murray, John; Sansom, Philip; Bussell, William M.. [S4-V2-p0890] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Lamb to the New-York Congress, offering his services in the Artillery Department. [1775-06-02] Lamb, John, Captain. [S4-V2-p0891] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Ethan Allen, at Crown Point, to the New-York Congress. Importance of the Posts on Lake Champlain, which have been taken, and the necessity of retaining them. With fifteen hundred Men he can take Montreal, and it would be no difficult matter to take Quebeck, this object should be accomplished, though it required ten thousand Men to do it. If it is thought premature to push an Army into Canada, he proposes to make a stand at Isle-au-Noix. [1775-06-02] Allen, Ethan. [S4-V2-p0891] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the New-York Provincial Congress to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebeck. [1775-06-02] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0893] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Albany to the Provincial Congress of New-York, requesting them to furnish Provisions, except Flour, for the thousand Men sent by Governour Trumbull to Ticonderoga. They desire full instructions as to what is expected of them, and also what disposition to make of the Prisoners taken at St. John's. [1775-06-02] . [S4-V2-p0127] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Greene to Jacob Greene. [1775-06-02] Greene, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V2-p0893] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Inhabitants of Georgetown, on Kennebeck River, to the Massachusetts Congress, for one or two barrels or half-barrels of Powder, as they have but thirty pounds, and are in daily expectation of being plundered by the British armed vessels. [1775-06-02] Lithgow, William. [S4-V2-p0894] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Gridley to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. [1775-06-02] Gridley, Richard, Colonel; Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; White, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0894] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Nathaniel Shaw, at New-London, to the New-Hampshire Congress. Has ordered a large quantity of Powder, but, from its not arriving, fears the Cruisers in the British Channel, or the negotiations between Great Britain and the States of Holland, have prevented it. [1775-06-02] Shaw, Nathaniel, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0894] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress. Circumstances appear daily more and more alarming: the Men-of-War stop all Provision Vessels coming to Portsmouth: Arms and Gun-powder must be procured, if possible, in the Southern Governments, it is indispensable that some plan be adopted by the Continental Congress for a Paper Currency, or some other to meet the present urgent necessity. [1775-06-02] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress; Thornton, Matthew. [S4-V2-p0894] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Congress to the Continental Congress, remonstrating against the abandonment of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and removing the Cannon to the south end of Lake George. [1775-06-02] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress; Thornton, Matthew. [S4-V2-p0895] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Congress to the New-York Congress. The Fortress of Ticonderoga is important to the welfare of all the Northern Colonies, and particularly so to New-Hampshire, where the thoughts of its demolition casts a damp on the spirits of the People, they trust the order for its abandonment will be reconsidered by the Continental Congress, but are determined to abide by the determination of that body. [1775-06-02] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress; Thornton, Matthew. [S4-V2-p0895] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, to the Provincial Congress. Request the Congress will regulate all future movements of any bodies of armed men from one Town to another. [1775-06-02] New-Hampshire, Portsmouth Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p0896] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Provincial Congress of South-Carolina earnestly recommend to their Constituents the promotion of union and harmony. [1775-06-03] South-Carolina Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0896] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Provincial Congress of South-Carolina earnestly recommend to their Constituents the promotion of union and harmony. [1775-06-07] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Timothy, Peter. [S4-V2-p0897] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Association unanimously agreed to in the Provincial Congress of South-Carolina. [1775-06-03] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Laurens, Henry, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0897] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Norfolk, Virginia, Committee. Order the immediate return of the Ship Molly, Captain Mitcheson, lately arrived from Great Britain, laden with a large quantity of Goods, in violation of the Association. [1775-06-03] Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Davies, William. [S4-V2-p0897] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Norfolk, Virginia, Committee. Order the immediate return of the Ship Molly, Captain Mitcheson, lately arrived from Great Britain, laden with a large quantity of Goods, in violation of the Association. [1775-06-04] Virginia, Norfolk Borough Committee; Davies, William. [S4-V2-p0897] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Delegates in the Continental Congress to the Provincial Congress. They are much pleased with the New-York plan for raising Money, but doubt of its being adopted by the Continental Congress. As General Officers will, in all probability, be appointed soon, they wish to know who would be most acceptable to them, to take command of the Continental Army in the Province, which is to be maintained at the general charge. [1775-06-03] Duane, James; Livingston, R. R., Jr.; Schuyler, Philip; Alsop, John; Lewis, Francis; Floyd, William; Boerum, Simon; Wisner, Henry. [S4-V2-p0898] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Inhabitants of Tryon County, urging them, for their own reputations' sake, the love of their Country, their regard for the welfare of the whole Continent, and of millions yet unborn, not to separate from their brethren upon this momentous occasion, but to unite with the rest of the Colony, and send Deputies to the Provincial Congress. Perhaps this will be the last application, as the time has almost come when we should be able to know our enemies. [1775-05-30] . [S4-V2-p1274] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Congress of New-York to Colonel Guy Johnson. They will discountenance every attempt against his person and property, and expect he will not counteract any measures recommended by the Continental or Provincial Congress, or by the Committees formed, or to be formed. The dispute has become so serious that they cannot silently suffer their plan to be frustrated by their own Countrymen. [1775-06-03] . [S4-V2-p1275] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee. Mr. George Folliot declines taking his seat in the Provincial Congress, and Isaac Sears is nominated in his place. [1775-06-03] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0898] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by Lieutenant-Governour Colden, further proroguing the Meeting of the Assembly to the 5th of July next. [1775-06-03] Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York; Bayard, Samuel, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0899] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James Rivington to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-02] Rivington, James. [S4-V2-p0899] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Committee to the Continental Congress, referring to their decision in the case of James Rivington. [1775-06-02] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0899] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Post-Master and Post-Rider appointed by the Committee of Providence, Rhode-Island, to be under their direction until the Assembly of the Colony, or the Continental Congress, shall make other regulations and appointments. [1775-06-03] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0900] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Henry Gardner, requiring him to proceed immediately to sign Bills for the payment of the Troops, to prevent their returning home. [1775-06-03] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Freeman, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0900] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of the Town of Arundel, in Massachusetts, to the Provincial Congress. They have seized a Vessel from Boston, with a number of the King's Arms on board, and send the persons and papers seized, to be disposed of by the Congress. [1775-06-03] Massachusetts, Arundel Committee; Durrell, Benjamin; Burnham, James; Wiswall, Thomas; Stone, Jonathan; Hovey, John. [S4-V2-p0900] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Deposition of Samuel Smith. [1775-06-09] Smith, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0901] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
To Mr. Ephraim Perkins. [1775-05-30] Goldthwait, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0901] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Orders from William Sherriff, dated Boston, May 30, to Josiah Jones, to proceed to Windsor, in Nova-Scotia. [1775-05-30] Sherriff, William. [S4-V2-p0901] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from William Sheriff dated Boston, May 30, to Day and Scott, at Windsor, Nova-Scotia. [1775-05-30] Sherriff, William. [S4-V2-p0901] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from William Sheriff, dated Boston, May 29, to Thomas Williams, Storekeeper of Ordnance at Annapolis Royal. [1775-05-29] Sherriff, William. [S4-V2-p0902] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Loammi Baldwin to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-03] Baldwin, Loammi, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0902] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Congress to the Massachusetts Congress. Having undoubted intelligence of the attempts of the British Ministry to engage the Canadians and Indians in their interest, they have raised and sent three Companies for the protection of the frontier settlements. [1775-06-03] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress; Thornton, Matthew. [S4-V2-p0902] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Gentleman in London to his friend in Philadelphia. The duplicity of New-York will ever render them suspected. The many assurances given to the Ministry by their leaders, justify a suspicion, which the conduct of some of their Merchants confirms, that they would adopt any means to break through the Association. [1775-06-04] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0903] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee of Observation for Anne Arundel County, Maryland. [1775-06-04] Maryland, Anne Arundel County Committee; Wallace, Charles; Duvall, G.. [S4-V2-p0903] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Philip Schuyler to the New-York Congress. He has been appointed by the Continental Congress to settle the Accounts of the People employed in the reduction of Ticonderoga. [1775-06-04] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p0904] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Ethan Allen, at present the principal commander of the Army at Ticonderoga, to our worthy and respectable countrymen and friends, the French People of Canada. [1775-06-04] Allen, Ethan; Easton, James. [S4-V2-p0904] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Elbridge Gerry to the Massachusetts Delegates in the Continental Congress. Government is so essential that it cannot be too soon adopted. Every day's delay will make the task more arduous. A regular General is wanted to assist in disciplining the Army, the pride of the People would prevent their being led by any General not American, yet General Lee could be of great service. The New-England Generals would acquiesce in the appointment of Colonel Washington as Generalissimo. [1775-06-04] Gerry, Elbridge. [S4-V2-p0905] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward and the Chairmen of the Committees of Safety and Supplies, to the Continental Congress. The Army at Cambridge is so entirely destitute of Powder that they are in danger of falling a prey to their enemies for want of the means of defence, they earnestly beseech that whatever can be spared in the other Colonies may be sent for their relief. [1775-06-04] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p0906] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Mrs. Bowdoin to the Massachusetts Congress, enclosing Depositions relating to the plundering and abuse of the Inhabitants of the Elizabeth Islands, by Captain Lindsey, of the Falcon Sloop-of-War. [1775-06-04] Bowdoin, Elizabeth. [S4-V2-p0906] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Deposition of Elisha Nye. [1775-06-04] Nye, Elisha; Smith, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0907] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Deposition of John Tucker, Jeremiah Robinson, Elisha Robinson and Ebenezer Meigs. [1775-05-31] Tucker, John; Robinson, Jeremiah; Robinson, Elisha; Meiggs, Ebenezer. [S4-V2-p0908] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Statement of Daniel Egry. [1775-05-10] Egry, Daniel. [S4-V2-p0909] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Political Observations on the Rebellion in America. Their wealth is the source of their Rebellion, and the Ministry have wisely begun to reduce them to reason by lessening it. If they persist in their Rebellion, all the calamities that arise from it will, in the sight of God and man, lie at their door. [1775-06-05] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0909] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Association entered into at Savannah, in Georgia. [1775-07-13] . [S4-V2-p1551] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Philadelphia Committee, prohibit the landing or selling of Goods without a certificate from the Committee whence they are sent, that they were imported within the rules of the Congress. [1775-06-05] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence; Smith, Jonathan B.. [S4-V2-p0909] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to General Burgoyne, from a Pennsylvanian. [1775-06-05] A Pennsylvanian (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0910] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from William Duer to the New-York Congress, representing the Disturbances and Riots in the New-Hampshire Grants. [1775-06-05] Duer, William. [S4-V2-p0910] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Guy Johnson to the Committee for Tryon County, New-York. [1775-06-05] Johnson, Guy, Colonel. [S4-V2-p0911] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Hartford to a Gentleman in New-York. Robert Temple, a high-flying Tory, taken at Plymouth, and sent to Cambridge, with his papers. [1775-06-05] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0912] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James Curgenven to Governour Trumbull, informing him of his appointment of Collector of the Customs for the Port of New-Haven. [1775-06-05] Curgenven, James. [S4-V2-p0912] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Oath of Office he had taken before the Board of Customs, and requesting to be informed if he will administer to him the usual Oath taken by Officers of the Crown. [1775-06-09] Curgenven, James. [S4-V2-p0913] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Soldiers in Captain Drury's Company to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-05] Stone, Windsor; Ordway, Samuel; Stow, Simon; Bent, Josiah; Stow, Francis; Brown, Joseph; Stow, Joseph; Abbot, Abijah; Stacy, John; Eaton, Brigham; Clark, William; Rogers, Simeon; Jennings, Joseph; James, Ebenezer; White, Josiah; Walker, Azariah; Gates, Amos; Sabin, Peter; Waite, David; Gates, George; Goynit, Joseph; Clark, Benjamin; Seaver, Joseph; Everdean, Samuel; Heminway, Isaac; Gates, Henry; Wright, Nehemiah. [S4-V2-p0914] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Captains in Colonel Scammons's Regiment to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-05] Hubbard, Philip; Dorman, Jesse; Bragdon, Joshua; Hill, Jeremiah; Fernald, Tobias, Jr.; Sayer, Samuel; Leighton, Samuel; Darby, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0914] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Town Meeting in Conway, New-Hampshire. Committee appointed, and empowered to inquire into the conduct of obnoxious persons, and refugees from other Towns. [1775-06-05] New-Hampshire, Conway Town Meeting; Eastman, Richard. [S4-V2-p0914] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the Minister. His (Lord North's) policy has driven the Americans to resistance. [1775-06-06] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0915] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Intelligence for Charlestown,South-Carolina, to the New-York Congress. The apprehension of a defection in New-York gave inexpressible anxiety to all America, and at the same time encouraged the Ministry to proceed in all their measures, they are happy to find this apprehension was unjustly formed. [Undated] . [S4-V2-p1323] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee appointed to receive the signatures of the Inhabitants of Charlestown to the Association adopted by the Provincial Congress of South-Carolina, on the 3d instant. [1775-06-06] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Timothy, Peter. [S4-V2-p0915] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Proceedings on the charge against William Moore, that he is inimical to the Liberties of America. [1775-06-06] Pennsylvania, Chester County Committee; Moore, William; Gronow, Lewis. [S4-V2-p0916] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to Governour Trumbull. The supply of Powder in the Colony is so insufficient that they cannot contribute in the least towards supplying Ticonderoga and Crown Point with it. [1775-06-06] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0916] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Frederick Weissenfels. [1775-06-06] Weissenfels, Frederick; Willett, Marinus; Mott, Gershom; Johnson, John; Roorback, Garret; Wynkoop, Jacobus; Alner, James; Quackenbos, John. [S4-V2-p0917] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Pierpont Edwards to the New-York Congress. Request the fullest information of the measures they have adopted, that he may communicate them to the Assembly of Connecticut. [1775-06-06] Edwards, Pierpont. [S4-V2-p0917] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Jacobus Low to the Ulster County, New-York, Committee, making concessions for his opposition to the Resolves of the Continental Congress. [1775-06-06] Low, Jacobus. [S4-V2-p0917] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee for the Town of Kingston, in Ulster County, New-York. Mr. Low having made reasonable satisfaction, is recommended as a friend to the rights and liberties of British America. [1775-06-06] New-York, Kingston Committee; Sleght, Johannes. [S4-V2-p0917] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Jacobus Low. [1775-06-06] Low, Jacobus. [S4-V2-p0917] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Captain Henry B. Livingston to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-06] Livingston, Henry B., Captain. [S4-V2-p0918] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of Delegates from the several Towns in the County of Cumberland, New-York. They will resist and oppose the acts of Parliament for raising a Revenue in America, and adopt the Association entered into at New-York. They have many brave Soldiers, but nothing to fight with, and request a supply from the Congress. [1775-06-06] New-York, Cumberland County Committee; Hazeltine, John. [S4-V2-p0918] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James Easton, at Crown Point, to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-06] Easton, James. [S4-V2-p0919] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Concession of Silvanus Whitney to the Committee of Observation for Stamford, Connecticut. [1775-06-06] Connecticut, Stamford Committee of Observation; Hait, John, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0920] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Concession of Silvanus Whitney to the Committee of Observation for Stamford, Connecticut. [1775-06-06] Whitney, Silvanus. [S4-V2-p0920] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Narrative of the destruction of the Tea, delivered up by Silvanus Whitney. [1775-06-06] Connecticut, Stamford Committee of Observation. [S4-V2-p0920] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Exchange of Prisoners at Charlestown. [1775-06-06] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0920] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Declaration by John Prentice, of his reasons for signing the Address to Governour Hutchinson. [1775-06-06] Prentice, John. [S4-V2-p0921] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Subscription of One Hundred Pounds, by the Constitutional Society, London, for the relief of the Widows and Orphans of those who were inhumanly murdered by the King's Troops at Lexington and Concord, in April last. [1775-06-07] Constitutional Society. [S4-V2-p0921] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Importation Report. [1775-06-07] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0921] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
The Association of the Provincial Congress of South-Carolina, signed universally by the Inhabitants of Charlestown, two persons only treated it with contempt. [1775-06-08] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0922] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Michael Hubart to the Committee of Correspondence at Charlestown, complaining of his treatment by Laughlin Martin and John Dealy. [1775-06] Hubart, Michael. [S4-V2-p0922] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of the punishment of Martin and Dealy, (Note). [1775-06] Drayton, William Henry. [S4-V2-p0923] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from North-Carolina to a Gentleman in New-York. The Governour has sent his family to New-York, and has taken up his residence in Fort Johnston, at the mouth of Cape-Fear River. [1775-06-07] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0924] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee of Worcester County, Maryland. Acknowledge their allegiance to the King, an affection for his person, and zeal for the support of his crown and dignity, will do all in their power to oppose the detested Ministerial plan for enslaving their Country, and will cheerfully contribute to assist their suffering brethren in Boston. [1775-06-07] Maryland, Worcester County Committee. [S4-V2-p0924] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Dixon Quinton. [1775-06-01] Quinton, Dixon; Maryland, Worcester County Committee. [S4-V2-p0924] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Dixon Quinton and Thomas Lambden declared enemies of their Country, by the Worcester, Maryland, Committee. [1775-06-07] Maryland, Worcester County Committee; Dennis, Robert. [S4-V2-p0924] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Delaware Assembly declare they will be chargeable with their share of the expense incurred in the defence of the lives and liberties of the People of the Twelve United Colonies, and of the Parish of St. John's, in Georgia. [1775-06-05] Delaware, General Assembly. [S4-V2-p0925] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Delaware Assembly declare they will be chargeable with their share of the expense incurred in the defence of the lives and liberties of the People of the Twelve United Colonies, and of the Parish of St. John's, in Georgia. [1775-06-07] Delaware, General Assembly. [S4-V2-p0925] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Charles Lee to General Burgoyne. [1775-06-07] Lee, Charles, General. [S4-V2-p0925] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Philadelphia Committee examine the complaint against Captain Robert Torrans, for having imported and sold some Irish Linens about the first of May last, and resolve that he has wilfully and knowingly violated the Continental Association. [1775-06-07] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence; Torrans, Robert; Bryan, George. [S4-V2-p0928] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Philadelphia Committee examine the complaint against Captain Robert Torrans, for having imported and sold some Irish Linens about the first of May last, and resolve that he has wilfully and knowingly violated the Continental Association. [1775-06-09] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p0928] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, enclosing the Report of a Committee appointed on erecting Fortifications at King's Bridge. The ground is so irregular on the Northern part of Manhattan Island that no Fortifications can be constructed there so as to be tenable for any length of time. No part of the Island is adapted for a Magazine or place of Arms, with an enemy superiour in the field, and with the command of both Rivers. [1775-06-07] . [S4-V2-p1278] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committee of Albany. Highly approve of their zeal and activity in raising Troops, but request them to proceed no further without orders, the two Companies raised may be sent to Ticonderoga. The Prisoners taken at St. John's should remain at liberty, and be supported out of the Colony Provisions. [1775-06-07] . [S4-V2-p1280] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, calling their attention to the necessity of immediately providing Money, without which it will be impossible to comply with their further requests. Their attention is particularly called to the situation of New-York, with respect to the Indians on their Northern Frontiers, whom policy will teach the British Ministry to set upon them, that they may be driven for protection to embrace their terms of slavery, this evil may be remedied by the appointment of a Continental Superintendent of Indian affairs, instead of leaving the management of Indian affairs in the hands of Crown Officers. The appointment of a General is left to the wisdom of the Continental Congress. [1775-06-07] . [S4-V2-p1281] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, recommending Colonel Philip Schuyler and Captain Richard Montgomery to the offices of Major and Brigadier-General. [1775-06-07] . [S4-V2-p1282] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. They are fully aware of the dangerous consequences that await them, either from supineness, or a confidence in the honour of the avowed instruments of Ministerial vengeance. [1775-06-07] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0928] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Donald McLeod, late from Scotland, to the New-York Committee, asking for a Commission. [1775-06-07] McLeod, Donald. [S4-V2-p0929] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Benjamin Lindsay to the New-York Committee, asking permission to take on board a parcel of Flour for the Poor of Boston. [1775-06-07] Lindsay, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0929] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Benjamin Lindsay to New-York Congress. [1775-06-11] Lindsay, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0929] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Application of the Selectmen of the Town of Lancaster to the Massachusetts Congress, to know what shall be done with the Estates of those who have gone to General Gage. [1775-06-07] Massachusetts, Lancaster Selectmen; Allen, Ebenezer; Fairbank, Cyrus; Thurston, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0930] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Committee of Belfast, and c., to the Massachusetts Congress, representing the defenceless condition of the Towns they represent. [1775-06-07] Massachusetts, Belfast, Majabigwaduce, and Benjamin's River Committee; Goldthwait, Thomas; Tufts, John; Buck, Jonathan; Moores, Edmund; Shute, Benjamin; Crary, Oliver. [S4-V2-p0930] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Davis and Coverly to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-07] Davis; Coverly. [S4-V2-p0931] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Hanover, Virginia, Volunteers, declare they will risk their lives to aid and assist in protecting the Liberties of their Country, and approve of the reprisals on the King's property for the Powder taken by Lord Dunmore. [1775-06-08] Virginia, Hanover Volunteers; Overton, James. [S4-V2-p0931] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Three Battalions of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, the Artillery Company, a Troop of Light-Horse, several Companies of Light-Infantry, Rangers, and Riflemen, in all above two thousand Men, reviewed by the Members of the Continental Congress. [1775-06-08] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0931] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Abraham Clark, of Elizabethtown, New-Jersey, to the New-York Congress. Forward six quarter casks and two half barrels of Gunpowder, to be sent on to the Camp near Boston. [1775-06-08] Clark, Abraham. [S4-V2-p0931] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Continental Congress, enclosing a Letter from General Ward, Joseph Warren, and Moses Gill, dated Camp, June 4, 1775. [1775-06-08] New-York, Congress; Douw, Volkert P.. [S4-V2-p0931] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the Provincial Congress of New-York, from General Ward, Dr. Warren President of the Committee of Safety, and Moses Gill Chairman of the Committee of Supplies, of Massachusetts, informing them of their distressed condition for want of Powder, and urging them in the strongest terms to assist them with a supply. [1775-06-04] Ward, Artemas, General; Warren, Joseph; Gill, Moses. [S4-V2-p0932] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Donald McLeod, late from Scotland: can raise a Company of Scottish Highlanders, to enter the service of the Colonies, and requests an answer to his application for a Commission. [1775-06-08] McLeod, Donald. [S4-V2-p0932] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee. Isaac Sears elected a Deputy to the Provincial Congress, in place of George Folliot. Committee appointed to examine the cargo of any Vessel which arrives, suspected of having on board Goods not admissible. [1775-06-08] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0933] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of Freeholders of Brookhaven, in Suffolk County, New-York, choose a Committee of Observation. [1775-06-08] New-York, Brookhaven Committee; Woodhull, John. [S4-V2-p0933] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Cumberland County, New-York, to the Provincial Congress. Will support all the American measures in opposition to the arbitrary, tyrannick, and sanguinary measures of the British Parliament. [1775-06-08] New-York, Cumberland County Committee; Hazeltine, John. [S4-V2-p0934] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Senior Class of Rhode-Island College to the President. [1775-06-08] Rhode-Island College, Senior Class, 1775; Read, Josiah; Law, Andrew; Fulton, James. [S4-V2-p0935] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Answer of the President to the Petition of the Senior Class. [1775-06-09] Manning, James; Hoell, David. [S4-V2-p0936] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-08] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p0236] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Captain Solomon Uhhaunnauwaunmut, Chief Sachem of the Moheakonnuck Tribe of Indians, at Stockbridge. [1775-06-08] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Freeman, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0937] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Committee, to the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-08] New-Hampshire, Portsmouth Committee of Correspondence; Hart, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0937] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee appointed by the New-Hampshire Congress to demand of George Jaffrey, Treasurer of the Colony, the Money in his hands. [1775-06-08] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0937] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
The Provincial Congress of South-Carolina have determined to raise two Regiments of Foot and one of Horse immediately, and to put the Militia on a respectable footing. [1775-06-09] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0938] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Volunteer Company of Lancaster County, Virginia. Thank Captain Patrick Henry for his spirited conduct in the late expedition, and will defend him and the Delegates, and all other friends to America, whom the abandoned tools of Administration may dare to attack. [1775-06-09] Virginia, Lancaster County Volunteers. [S4-V2-p0938] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Commander-in-Chief, at Ticonderoga. [1775-06-09] . [S4-V2-p1288] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Commissioners at Albany, appointed to superintend the removal of the Stores from Ticonderoga. [1775-06-09] . [S4-V2-p1288] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from William Williams, Benjamin Waite, and Joab Hoisington, to the New-York Congress, requesting to be appointed Field-Officers. [1775-06-09] Williams, William; Waite, Benjamin; Hoisington, Joab. [S4-V2-p0938] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Ethan Allen to the Massachusetts Congress. Two or three thousand Men, conducted by intrepid commanders, would at this juncture make a conquest of Canada. Such a plan would make a diversion in favour of the Massachusetts-Bay, who have been too much burdened with a calamity that should be more general. [1775-06-09] Allen, Ethan. [S4-V2-p0939] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by General Guy Carleton, Governour of the Province of Quebeck. Rebels from the neighbouring Colonies, having made incursions into the Province, making prisoners of a number of His Majesty's Troops, and are at present invading the Province in a traitorous manner, it is necessary to suspend the ordinary course of civil law, and martial law will henceforth be executed throughout the Province. [1775-06-09] Carleton, Guy, General; Cramahe, H. T.. [S4-V2-p0940] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Reverend Samuel Kirkland, Missionary among the Oneida Indians, to the Committee of Albany. Colonel Johnson has orders from Government to remove the dissenting Missionaries from the Six Nations, till the difficulties between Great Britain and the Colonies are settled: he has forbid Mr. Kirkland to speak one word to the Indians, and threatened him with imprisonment if he transgresses, because he translated the proceedings of the Continental Congress for the Indians, at their request. [1775-06-09] . [S4-V2-p1309] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Continental Congress. Has made provision for the defence of Ticonderoga, Col. Hinman is appointed to the command of the Troops there, consisting of one thousand Men from Connecticut, well armed, and furnished with one pound of Powder and three pounds of Ball to each man. [1775-06-09] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p0940] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Abiathar Angel to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-09] Angel, Abiathar. [S4-V2-p0941] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition and Remonstrance of Abiathar Angel, of Lanesborough, in the County of Berkshire, to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-09] Angel, Abiathar. [S4-V2-p0941] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Lane, at Fort Pownall, to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-09] Lane, John. [S4-V2-p0942] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Journal of John Lane, from Watertown to Penobscot, to treat with the Eastern Indians. [May 22, 1775-June 6, 1775] Lane, John. [S4-V2-p0942] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Elisha Hewes, dated at Penobscot River, to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-09] Hewes, Elisha. [S4-V2-p0943] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Joseph Hawley to Joseph Warren. Urges reasons why the Posts on Lake Champlain should not be abandoned, but should be maintained at all events. [1775-06-09] Hawley, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0944] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of what passed on the 19th of April last, between a Detachment of the King's Troops, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, and several parties of the Rebel Provincials, published officially in the London Gazette. [1775-06-10] London Gazette. [S4-V2-p0945] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Return by General Gage of the Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers, Rank and File, Killed, Wounded, Prisoners and Missing, on the 19th of April, 1775Return by General Gage of the Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers, Rank and File, Killed, Wounded, Prisoners and Missing, on the 19th of April, 1775. [1775-04-19] Gage, Thomas, General; London Gazette. [S4-V2-p0946] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Remarks on the Gazette account of the Action of the 19th of April. [1775-06-12] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0947] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Strictures on the Gazette account of the Action between the Provincials and the Regulars, near Boston. [1775-06] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0948] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the People of England, on the Gazette account of the Attack of His Majesty's Troops on the Provincials in Massachusetts. [1775-06] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0952] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Falmouth, in England, to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. The hostilities commenced in America, between the King's Troops and the Provincials, will be attended with fatal consequences to both parties. [1775-06-10] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0953] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract of a Letter from Charlestown, South-Carolina, Dated June 19, 1775. [1775-06-10] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0953] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Officers of the First and Second Regiments of Infantry, and of the Regiment of Horse Rangers, appointed by Provincial Congress of South-Carolina. [1775-06-10] South-Carolina General Assembly. [S4-V2-p0953] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Hancock, President, to the New-York Congress, enclosing a Resolution requesting them to purchase and forward to the Army at Boston, with the utmost expedition and secrecy, five thousand barrels of Flour. [1775-06-10] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p0954] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the New-York Congress, from their Delegates in the Continental Congress. The emission of Paper Money will be discussed on the 12th. Indian affairs, which are of the highest importance to New-York, will be duly considered by the Congress. The Indians will not be disposed to engage in our unhappy quarrel, unless deceived by misrepresentations, and this, with care on our part, can be prevented. [1775-06-10] New-York Delegates, Continental Congress; Livingston, Philip; Duane, James; Lewis, Francis; Floyd, William; Alsop, John. [S4-V2-p0954] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from President Hancock to the Massachusetts Congress, enclosing a Resolution of the Congress advising the assumption of Civil Government by Massachusetts, Gen. Gage having levied War against His Majesty's peaceable Subjects of that Colony. [1775-06-10] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p0955] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolution of the Congress advising the assumption of Civil Government by Massachusetts, Gen. Gage having levied War against His Majesty's peaceable Subjects of that Colony. [1775-06-09] Continental Congress; Thomson, Charles; Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p0955] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Thomas Cushing to Elbridge Gerry. [1775-06-10] Cushing, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0955] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry. [1775-06-10] Paine, Robert Treat. [S4-V2-p0956] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from President Hancock to the New-Hampshire Congress, enclosing Resolutions of the Congress of this day. [1775-06-10] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p0956] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress. A Vessel, suspected of having on board Provisions for the British Army at Boston, has been detained to get the opinion of the Continental Congress whether she should be permitted to proceed. [1775-06-10] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p0956] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to Governour Trumbull. Have procured six hundred and fifty pounds of Powder from New-Jersey for Massachusetts, which will be forwarded immediately. [1775-06-10] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0957] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Robert Boyd to the New-York Congress, informing them he can make Muskets, and requesting an advance of one hundred Pounds, to provide the necessary Machinery. [1775-06-10] Boyd, Robert, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0957] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Officers at Crown Point and Ticonderoga to the Continental Congress. Recommend Ethan Allen, Seth Warner and Remember Baker for appointments. [1775-06-10] Elmer, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0957] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Elisha Hewes, at Fort Pownall, to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-10] Hewes, Elisha. [S4-V2-p0958] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Conway, New-Hampshire, to Matthew Thornton. All the young men are enlisted in the Army. The old men are not able to carry on farming: they are in want of Arms and Ammunition, and, expecting an attack from the Indians, apply to the Provincial Congress for assistance. [1775-06-10] New-Hampshire, Conway Committee; McMullen, Andrew. [S4-V2-p0958] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Tryon County, New-York, Committee, appoint Delegates to the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-11] New-York, Tryon County Committee; Herkimer, Nicholas; Finck, Andrew, Jr.. [Spelling variants of Herkimer include: Herchkeimer and Herckheimer.] [S4-V2-p0959] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Continental Congress. The embarrassments in executing every undertaking are so many that they cannot be enumerated. This is chiefly to be attributed to the want of a Civil Government: on which the immediate advice of the Congress is requested. [1775-06-11] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Hawley, Joseph; Freeman, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0959] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from London to a Gentleman in Virginia. Since the confirmation of the news brought by Captain Derby, the Americans bear the greatest applause here of any people in the world. [1775-06-12] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0960] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the People of England, on the Disturbances in America. [1775-06-12] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0961] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Provincial Congress of South-Carolina. Resolve that any person who refuses obedience to the authority of the Congress shall be advertised as an enemy to the Liberties of America, and an object of the resentment of the Publick. [1775-06-12] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Timothy, Peter. [S4-V2-p0962] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Provincial Congress of South-Carolina. Resolve that any person who refuses obedience to the authority of the Congress shall be advertised as an enemy to the Liberties of America, and an object of the resentment of the Publick. [1775-06-12] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Timothy, Peter. [S4-V2-p0962] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Some Thoughts on the Constitution of the British Empire and the Controversy between Great Britain and the American Colonies. [1775-06-12] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0962] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Merchants of Canada. [1775-06-13] . [S4-V2-p1294] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee. Direct the removal of some Soldiers' Wives and their Children, infected with the Small-Pox, out of the City. [1775-06-12] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p0965] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committees of the Precincts of New-Marlborough, New-Windsor and Newburgh, in Ulster County, New-York, to the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-12] New-York, New-Marlborough Committee; Carpenter, Benjamin; New-York, New-Windsor Committee; Brewster, Samuel; New-York, Newburgh Committee of Correspondence and Observation; Belknap, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0966] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Alexander McDougall to the Massachusetts Congress. Some Powder has been obtained, which will be forwarded this night, accompanied by a Guard, They are directed to travel always in the night, and to put up in the day, to avoid any parade on the road which might lead to a conclusion that the Powder is much wanted by the Army. [1775-06-12] McDougall, Alexander. [S4-V2-p0966] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Alexander McDougall to Joseph Warren. [1775-06-12] Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0967] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Alexander McDougall to the Committee for Greenwich, Connecticut, requesting them to forward the Powder. [1775-06-12] McDougall, Alexander. [S4-V2-p0967] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Alexander McDougall to the Committee for Greenwich, Connecticut, requesting them to forward the Powder. [1775-06-13] Connecticut, Greenwich Committee. [S4-V2-p0967] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
June 12, Newport, Rhode-Island. [1775-06-12] Rhode-Island, General Assembly; Ward, Henry. [S4-V2-p0967] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Official notice of advices received by the Earl of Dartmouth, from Gen. Gage, to this date. [1775-07-18] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0968] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. A plan for a Rebellion has been long conceived, and the People's minds ripened for it. [1775-06-12] Gage, Thomas, General. [S4-V2-p0968] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. A plan for a Rebellion has been long conceived, and the People's minds ripened for it. [1775-05-17] Warren, Joseph; Washington, George. [S4-V2-p0968] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by General Gage, declaring the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in a state of actual Rebellion, offering pardon to all who lay down their Arms, excepting only from the benefit of pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, suspending the Civil Law, and establishing Martial Law throughout the Province. [1775-06-12] Gage, Thomas, General; Flucker, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0968] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Continental Congress. Taking and keeping possession of Ticonderoga was necessary for the preservation of the Liberties of America, but in so doing there was no intention to disturb the People of Canada, and they request that means may be taken to remove the false impressions made upon the minds of the Canadians on this subject. [1775-06-12] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0970] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Memorial of Henry Howell Williams to the Massachusetts Congress, setting forth the losses he has sustained from a number of armed Troops, commonly called Provincials, on Noddle-Island and Hog-Island, in Boston-Bay, and praying relief. [1775-06-12] Williams, Henry Howell. [S4-V2-p0971] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Declaration of John Worthington to Committee for Springfield, Massachusetts, of his determination to support the measures of the Continental Congress, and of his willingness to defend the Rights and Liberties of America. [1775-06-12] Worthington, John. [S4-V2-p0971] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee for Springfield, in Massachusetts. Recommend John Worthington to the favourable opinion of the Publick, and to the treatment and respect due to a friend to the Country. [1775-06-12] Massachusetts, Springfield Committee of Correspondence; Brewer, Nathaniel. [S4-V2-p0972] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Acknowledgment of Timothy Brown, of Tewksbury, suspected as an enemy to his Country. [1775-06-12] Brown, Timothy. [S4-V2-p0972] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committees for Chelmsford, Billerica and Tewksbury. Satisfied with Timothy Brown's Acknowledgment. [1775-06-12] Massachusetts, Chelmsford, Billerica, and Tewksbury Committee of Correspondence; Spalding, Simeon. [S4-V2-p0972] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Town of Kittery to the Massachusetts Congress. Their supplies of Provisions are cut off, and their Town is threatened to be beat down by the Captains of the Scarborough and the Canceaux Men-of-War, being reduced to the alternative, either to fight or perish by famine, they choose the first, and request supplies of Powder and Ball. [1775-06-12] Massachusetts, Kittery Committee of Safety; Chauncy, Charles, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0972] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Elisha Phelps to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. [1775-06-12] Phelps, Elisha. [S4-V2-p0972] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Newfoundland to a Gentleman in New-York. The People are suffering for bread, they curse New-York, which was the only place they depended on for assistance in subjugating the Americans, and propose the most inhuman proceedures if any of the Continental Congress should fall into their hands. [1775-06-12] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0973] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from London. [1775-06-13] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0974] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Martin of North-Carolina, to Henry White of New-York, requests him to send a Royal Standard, and Furniture for a Colonel's Tent. [1775-06-13] Martin, Josiah, Governour of North-Carolina. [S4-V2-p0974] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from one of the Virginia Delegates in the Continental Congress to a friend in Williamsburg. Colonel Skene has just arrived from London, charged with a power from the Administration to influence the Members of Congress, by arguments drawn on the Treasury. He has been made a Prisoner, and is on his parole, to remain within eight miles of Philadelphia. [1775-06-13] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0974] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Caroline County Committee. [1775-06-13] Virginia, Caroline County Committee; Hawes, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0974] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from D. Cross, of Glasgow, in Scotland, to James Dunlop, Merchant, Port-Royal, Virginia. [1775-06-08] Cross, D.. [S4-V2-p0975] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from D. Cross to James Dunlop and Patrick Kennan, Merchants, on Rappahannock, Virginia. [1775-06-13] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0975] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Baltimore to a Gentleman in Virginia. Lord Dunmore left Williamsburgh, and went on board a Man-of-War, on Friday, the 8th instant, and refused to return on an invitation from the Assembly. [1775-06-13] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0975] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, enclosing a Report of a Committee appointed to examine the Highlands. [1775-06-13] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0975] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Benedict Arnold, Crown Point, to the Continental Congress. Has learned from a Messenger he sent among the Indians, that they are determined not to assist the King's Troops. Governour Carleton has not succeeded in raising more than twenty Canadians, if the Congress think proper to take possession of Montreal and Quebeck, it can be done with two thousand Men, it would be more advantageous to take and keep possession of Quebeck than to rebuild Ticonderoga. [1775-06-13] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0976] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Benedict Arnold to Governour Trumbull. [1775-06-13] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p0977] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Palmer, Quartermaster General, to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. [1775-06-13] Palmer, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0978] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Palmer, Quartermaster General, to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. [1775-06-13] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; White, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p0978] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the New-York Congress, informing them that they have requested the Continental Congress to quiet the apprehensions of the Canadians, that hostile preparations are making against them in some of the Colonies, and to counteract the evil effects of the malevolent misrepresentations of Colonel Guy Johnson to the Six Nations. [1775-06-13] . [S4-V2-p1319] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Instructions of the Massachusetts Congress to Walter Spooner, Jedediah Foster, and James Sullivan, a Committee appointed to proceed to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, by the road through the settlements called the New-Hampshire Grants, giving them full power to do every thing in behalf of Massachusetts, for the effectual securing and maintaining those Posts, which they shall judge necessary. [Undated] . [S4-V2-p1407] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Lemuel Prescott, of Boston, to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-13] Trescott, Lemuel. [S4-V2-p0978] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-13] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0979] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Safety for New-Hampshire to the Committee of Conway. They have sent twenty-five pounds of Powder, can spare no more, and can supply no Arms. [1775-06-14] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p0979] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from one of the Virginia Delegates in Congress to his friend in Williamsburgh. Colonel Washington has been pressed to take supreme command of the American Troops at Roxbury, and will probably accept the appointment. Ten thousand Men will be kept up in Massachusetts, and five thousand in New-York, at the expense of the Continent. [1775-06-14] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0979] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the Inhabitants of New-Jersey. [1775-06-14] A Jersey Farmer (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0980] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from William Duer to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-14] Duer, William. [S4-V2-p0981] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from William Geddard to the New-York Congress, enclosing papers which are explanatory of a design formed by the friends of Freedom for annihilating the old Parliamentary and Ministerial Post-Office in this Country. [1775-06-14] Goddard, William. [S4-V2-p0981] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-12] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0982] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-15] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0982] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-18] New-Hampshire, Provincial Congress; Thornton, Matthew. [S4-V2-p0982] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-30] Rhode-Island, Providence Committee; Angell, James. [S4-V2-p0982] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-31] Rhode-Island, Newport Committee; Bumneil, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0982] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-05] Connecticut, Stamford Committee; Wait, John, Jr.. [S4-V2-p0983] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-07] Connecticut, Norwalk Committee; Gruman, Samuel; Betts, Thaddeus; Lockwood, Eliphalet. [S4-V2-p0983] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-07] Hosmer, Titus. [S4-V2-p0983] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-05-07] Connecticut, Hartford Committee; Wyllys, Samuel; Wadsworth, Samuel. [S4-V2-p0983] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Papers from Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, approving of the plan for establishing a Post-Office. [1775-06-06] Connecticut, New London Committee of Correspondence; Shaw, Nathaniel, Jr.; Deshon, John. [S4-V2-p0983] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Continental Congress. [1775-06-14] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0983] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Enclosed copy of the Resolution directing the purchase of Flour for the Army. [1775-06-12] New-York, Congress; McKesson, John. [S4-V2-p0984] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress, communicating information just received of the sailing of Troops from Ireland for Boston and New-York. [1775-06-14] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p0984] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Information given by Captain Thompson to the New-York Congress of the embarkation of Troops for America. [1775-06-13] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p0984] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Wooster, requesting him to take charge of Angus McDonald. [1775-06-14] . [S4-V2-p1299] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from M. S. Mumford to Jonathan Trumbull, Jun. A ship from London, with Major Skene and a quantity of Arms, arrived at Philadelphia, have been secured by the Congress. [1775-06-14] Mumford, M. S.. [S4-V2-p0985] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Cooke to Captain Wallace, of His Majesty's Ship Rose, at Newport. Remonstrating against his interrupting the People of Rhode-Island in their lawful Trade, and seizing their persons and property, demands his reasons for doing so, and also demands the immediate return of the Vessels he has taken. [1775-06-14] Cooke, Nicholas, Governour of Rhode-Island. [S4-V2-p0985] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Capt. Wallace to Governour Cooke. Supposes he writes in behalf of some body of People, and desires to know whether or not Governour Cooke, or the People for whom he writes, are not in open Rebellion against their lawful Sovereign. [1775-06-14] Wallace, James, Captain. [S4-V2-p0986] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Newport, Rhode Island, Committee, to the Committee for East-Hampton, New-York. [1775-06-14] Rhode-Island, Newport Committee; Otis, Jonathan. [S4-V2-p0986] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Falmouth to the Massachusetts Congress. No provision having been made for the support of the Men enlisted to guard the Sea-Coasts, they cannot continue to do duty. Four Indian Chiefs have arrived at Falmouth, with Captain Lane, from the Penobscot Tribe. [1775-06-14] Massachusetts, Falmouth Committee of Correspondence; Preble, Jedediah; Freeman, Enoch. [S4-V2-p0986] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Instructions of the Massachusetts Congress to the Gentlemen Chosen to Repair to Ticonderoga. [1775-06-14] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p0986] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Josiah Jones and Jonathan Hicks to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-14] Jones, Josiah; Hicks, Jonathan. [S4-V2-p0988] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Machias Committee to the Massachusetts Congress. Account of the capture at that place of two Sloops and a British Tender. [1775-06-14] Massachusetts, Machias Committee; Stillman, George. [S4-V2-p0988] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Appeal to the Publick, by Charles Gordon, of Cecil County, Maryland, against a publication by the Committee for Charlestown Hundred. [1775-06-15] Gordon, Charles. [S4-V2-p0990] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Reply of the Committee. [1775-06] Maryland, Charlestown Hundred Committee; Hamilton, Patrick; Ramsey, Nathaniel; Hamilton, John; Hughes, Thomas. [S4-V2-p0990] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings of the Committee of Cecil County, at Elk-Ferry, on the 16th of May, 1775, in relation to Charles Gordon, who is declared an enemy to his Country. [1775-05-16] Maryland, Cecil County Committee; Veazey, John, III. [S4-V2-p0991] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings of the Committee of Cecil County, at Elk-Ferry, on the 24th of May, 1775, in relation to Charles Gordon, who is declared an enemy to his Country. [1775-05-17] Maryland, Cecil County Committee; Smith, David; Veazey, John, III. [S4-V2-p0991] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
"Memento" to Lord North. [1775-06-15] Memento (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p0992] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Address of Montford Browne, Governour of the Bahama Islands, inviting settlements in Louisiana and Mississippi. [1775-06-15] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p0992] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Governour Browne's reasons, as presented to the King, for an immediate Civil Government in the British Dominions adjoining to the River Mississippi, in North America. [1775-06] Browne, Montford. [S4-V2-p0993] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Mr. John Durade. [1770-02] Durade, John. [S4-V2-p0994] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
To Governour Browne. [1769-1770?] Rouchon, Pierre; Lagautrais, H.; Metulick, Gerome; Durade, Jaques; Durade, Jean; D'Oraioire; Bernard, E.; Timmermans; Rouchon, P.; Lagoutry; Bichie; La Combs, Vincent; Du Faud, Dennis; Boulomois, B.; Milon, Joseph; Cornillieu, Jean Baptiste; Fourdas; Blanchard, Charles; Lagoutrey; Monsanto; Line; Milhet, D.; Vincent, J.; Delapommeraye, Locquet; Corona, Vicenzo; Aostion, P.; Olis, Baptiste; Hochoit, P.; Monsanto, J.. [S4-V2-p0995] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract of a Report Made to Government by Engineer Cambell. [1769-1770?] Cambell. [S4-V2-p0995] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from President Hancock to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-15] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p1000] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Wooster, enclosing a Resolution requesting him to march with his Troops from Connecticut, to the distance of five miles from the City, to be subject to the orders of the Continental Congress. [1775-06-15] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p1000] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolution requesting him to march with his Troops from Connecticut, to the distance of five miles from the City, to be subject to the orders of the Continental Congress. [1775-06-15] New-York, Congress; McKesson, John. [S4-V2-p1000] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Adonijah Strong to the Albany Committee. [1775-06-15] Strong, Adonijah. [S4-V2-p1000] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Albany Committee on the Letter from Adonijah Strong. [Undated] . [S4-V2-p1001] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Wooster, at Greenwich, Connecticut, to the New-York Congress. He has received and will secure Angus McDonald. Regrets they have to send their Prisoners so far, and would be much better pleased to receive them nearer the City, especially as four Regiments from Ireland are expected so soon. [1775-06-15] Wooster, David, General. [S4-V2-p1001] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Wooster to Governour Trumbull, requests he may be ordered to New-York. [1775-06-15] Wooster, David, General. [S4-V2-p1001] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Isaac Sears to General Wooster, informing him of a motion made in the Provincial Congress to ask him to march there with his Troops. [1775-06-14] Sears, Isaac. [S4-V2-p1002] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Continuing Letter, General Wooster to Governour Trumbull. [1775-06-15] Wooster, David, General. [S4-V2-p1002] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Answer to a Speech sent by the Stockbridge Indians to the Caughnawagas, or Canadian Tribes of Indians, near Montreal. [1775-06-15] Sergeant, John. [S4-V2-p1002] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Worcester, Massachusetts, Committee, enclosing an Order for the removal of Samuel Murray from the Jail in Worcester to his father in Rutland. [1775-06-15] Ward, Artemas, General; Ward, Joseph; Young, William. [S4-V2-p1003] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the New-Hampshire Congress. [1775-06-15] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p1003] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from William Stoddard, Boston, to Capt. James Littlefield, Watertown. [1775-06-15] Stoddard, William. [S4-V2-p1003] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
"Sydney" to the Soldiers and Seamen serving in the British Fleet and Army in America. [1775-06-15] Sydney (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1004] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Rev. Samuel Langdon to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-15] Harvard College, Corporation and Board of Overseers; Langdon, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1004] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to Dr. Joseph Warren, President of the Massachusetts Congress. Recommending the employment by the Colony of some Armed Vessels, to protect their Towns and Coasting Trade from British Vessels-of-War. [1775-06-15] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1005] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of Falmouth to the Massachusetts Congress Mr. Lane is on his way to Watertown, with four Indian Chiefs of the Penobscot Tribe. [1775-06-15] Massachusetts, Falmouth Committee of Correspondence; Preble, Jedediah. [S4-V2-p1005] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Read to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-06-15] Read, James, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1005] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Read to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, Orders from General Ward. [1775-06-12] Ward, Artemas, General; Read, James, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1006] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Read to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-06-15] Read, James, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1006] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Read to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, recommending Andrew Colburn for an appointment. [1775-06-08] Read, James, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1006] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Services done by Andrew Colburn in the last War. [1775] Colburn, Andrew, Captain. [S4-V2-p1006] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colonel James Read's Regimental Orders for the New-Hampshire Troops under his command. [1775-06-14] Read, James, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1007] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colonel James Read's Regimental Orders for the New-Hampshire Troops under his command. [1775-06-15] Read, James, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1007] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Joseph Habersham to Philotheos Chiffelle. Efforts of Mr. Stuart and Mr. Cameron to engage the Southern Indians on the side of the British Government. [1775-06-16] Habersham, Joseph. [S4-V2-p1007] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Pennsylvanian to Gen. Burgoyne. [1775-06-16] A Pennsylvanian (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1008] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of the Province Stores at Albany, New-York. [1775-06-16] Bleecker, John N.. [S4-V2-p1009] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Wooster to Governour Trumbull, requesting his instructions about complying with the request from New-York to march his Troops there, and place them under the direction of the Continental Congress. [1775-06-16] Wooster, David, General. [S4-V2-p1010] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from an Officer in the Navy at Boston to his friend in England. Sixteen of the Transports ordered from England to New-York are, by the General, ordered to Boston. Expects to hear of bloody work soon, as the Troops are determined to lay the Country waste as they go, with Fire and Sword. [1775-06-16] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1010] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. [1775-06-16] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1011] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Selectmen of Edgartown to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-16] Massachusetts, Edgartown Selectmen; Cook, Thomas; Smith, Ebenezer. [S4-V2-p1018] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Israel Gilman to the New-Hampshire Congress. The Regulars are expected soon to make a push for Bunker's Hill or Dorchester Neck. [1775-06-16] Gilman, Israel, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1013] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the People of England. [1775-06-17] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1013] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Provincial Congress of South-Carolina direct the election of a new Congress. [1775-06-17] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Timothy, Peter. [S4-V2-p1016] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
To the Committee of the City of Philadelphia. Calling their attention to the injury that may be done, if the Officer lately arrived from the Army in Boston, and says he has sold out, should prove to be a Spy for General Gage. [1775-06-17] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1016] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James Duane to the New-York Congress. The Continental Congress has ordered an emission of Two Millions of Dollars, in Paper Currency. Have agreed to raise, at the Continental expense, a body of fifteen thousand Men, and have appointed Col. George Washington Captain-General of all the Forces raised and to be raised in the common cause. [1775-06-17] Duane, James. [S4-V2-p1016] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress. [1775-06-17] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p1017] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Wooster. [1775-06-17] . [S4-V2-p1304] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Wooster to the New-York Congress. Has sent their Letter of the 15th to the Governour, and holds himself in readiness to march as soon as he receives the Governour's orders. [1775-06-17] . [S4-V2-p1306] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Supplies to the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts. Exclusive of thirty-six half barrels of Powder received from Connecticut, there are only in the Magazine twenty-seven half barrels. [1775-06-17] Massachusetts, Committee of Supplies; Cheever, David. [S4-V2-p1017] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee for Machias to the Massachusetts Congress. Both of Captain Jones's Sloops, taken with the Margaretta, one of the King's Tenders, were in the King's service. [1775-06-17] Massachusetts, Machias Committee; Lyon, James. [S4-V2-p1017] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of an Engagement at Charlestown, in Massachusetts, between about three thousand of the King's Regular Forces and about half that number of Provincials, on Saturday, the 17th of June, 1775. [1775-06-17] Hide, Elijah, Captain. [S4-V2-p1018] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Wentworth, at Castle William and Mary, in Portsmouth Harbour, to Theodore Atkinson. Captain Barclay has seized a Vessel from Newbury, Massachusetts, for breach of Acts of Trade, and directs that she may be forthwith libelled in the Court of Admiralty. [1775-06-17] Wentworth, John, II, Governour of New-Hampshire. [S4-V2-p1019] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from President Hancock to Elbridge Gerry. Colonel Washington is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and he will depart in a few days for Cambridge. Ten Companies of Riflemen, from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, are ordered immediately to proceed to your Army. [1775-06-18] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p1019] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Adams to Elbridge Gerry. General Washington has been chosen Comander-in-Chief, General Ward First Major-General, and General Lee Second, and Major Gates Adjutant-General. The virtuous attachment of our countrymen to their own officers presented an objection to the appointment of Lee and Gates, which was overcome by the earnest desire of General Washington to have their assistance. [1775-06-18] Adams, John. [S4-V2-p1019] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
General Wooster to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-18] . [S4-V2-p1306] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Wooster to Governour Trumbull, enclosing a Letter, dated yesterday, from New-York. [1775-06-18] Wooster, David, General. [S4-V2-p1020] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Wooster, informing him of the change in the destination of the Troops, a Ship-of-War is off Sandy Hook, to direct the Transports to proceed to Boston. [1775-06-17] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p1020] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from an Officer of the British Army at Boston to a Gentleman in London. Account of the Battle of Bunker's Hill, the Provinces were defeated, but the victory has cost us very dear, and we do not enjoy one solid benefit from it, we have learned one melancholy truth, which is, that the Americans, if equally well commanded, are as good Soldiers as ours. [1775-06-18] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1021] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
London, July 27, 1775. [1775-06-27] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1021] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Thomas to the Massachusetts Congress, recommending the appointment of an Adjutant and Quartermaster-General. [1775-06-18] Thomas, John, General. [S4-V2-p1021] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Supplies to the Committee of Safety. [1775-06-18] Massachusetts, Committee of Supplies; Cheever, David. [S4-V2-p1022] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Circular Letter from the Committee of Supplies to the several Towns in Massachusetts, urging them to forward Provisions for the Army. [1775-06-18] Massachusetts, Committee of Supplies; Cheever, David. [S4-V2-p1022] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Bartlett to General Folsom, with intelligence of the Battle yesterday, and the burning of Charlestown. [1775-06-18] Bartlett, Josiah, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1022] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee for the County of Prince Edward, Virginia. Resolutions on the seizure of the Powder by Lord Dunmore, and approving the conduct of Captain Patrick Henry in making reprisals for it. [1775-06-19] Virginia, Prince Edward County Committee; Lawson, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1023] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Frederick County, Virginia, Committee. Resolutions on the seizure of the Powder by Lord Dunmore, and the Address from the Council to the People of Virginia. [1775-06-19] Virginia, Frederick County Committee; Heth, William. [S4-V2-p1023] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Queen Anne County, Maryland, Committee. Prohibit the dealing with any Merchant in the County who does not produce satisfactory evidence that his Goods were imported agreeable to the Association. [1775-06-19] Maryland, Queen Anne County Committee; Downes, Edward, Jr.. [S4-V2-p1024] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Brook Watson to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-19] Watson, Brook. [S4-V2-p1025] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the New-York Congress. Has ordered seventeen hundred Men, under the command of Major-General Wooster, to march immediately within five miles of the City of New-York, subject to the orders of the Continental Congress and Provincial Congress of New-York. [1775-06-19] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1025] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-19] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1026] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to Benedict Arnold. The invasion of Canada should be moved by the Continental Congress, the Army at Boston, and the prospect of one arriving at New-York, forbid our thinking of an Expedition to Canada. [1775-06-19] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1026] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Speech of the Chiefs and Warriors of the Oneida Tribe of Indians to the four New-England Provinces, directed to Governour Trumbull. [1775-06-19] Sunoghsis, William (Oneida); Watshaleagh, Viklasha (Oneida); Kanaghquassea, William (Oneida); Thayehcase, Peter (Oneida); Tegayavher, Germine (Oneida); Ahsechose, Nickhes (Oneida); Yoghtanawca, Thomas (Oneida); Ohonwano, Adam (Oneida); Agwerondongwas, Quedellis (Oneida); Tegahpreahdyen, Handerchicko (Oneida); Skeanender, Johnks (Oneida); Teorddeatha, Thomas (Oneida); Kirkland, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1116] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Town Meeting at Providence, Rhode-Island. Authorize Cartridges to be delivered out to the Inhabitants. [1775-06-19] Rhode-Island, Providence Town Meeting; Cooke, Nicholas, Governour of Rhode-Island. [S4-V2-p1027] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Providence, Rhode-Island, Packet, seized by the British, and retaken, near Connecticut. [1775-06-19] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1027] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation by General Gage, requiring all the Inhabitants of Boston to deliver up their Fire-Arms, and declaring all who omit to do so enemies to His Majesty's Government. [1775-06-19] Gage, Thomas, General; Flucker, Thomas. [S4-V2-p1027] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-19] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1028] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Joseph Ward to the Massachusetts Congress, requesting the Troops to be furnished with Blankets, and Spears or Lances. [1775-06-19] Ward, Joseph. [S4-V2-p1028] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Provincial Congress, requesting that measures may be taken to obtain the names and places of abode of all who were Killed or Wounded in the Battle of Lexington, and at any time since, and of such as may be Killed or Wounded at any future time, in the contest between Great Britain and the Colonies. [1775-06-19] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; White, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1028] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolution of the Provincial Congress, for carrying into effect the foregoing request. [1775-06-21] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1028] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel John Stark to the New-Hampshire Congress. Account of the engagement on the 17th instant. [1775-06-19] Stark, John, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1029] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James McGregore to the Committee of Safety of New-Hampshire. [1775-06-19] McGregore, James. [S4-V2-p1029] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Arrival of Governour Lord William Campbell at Charlestown, South-Carolina. [1775-06-20] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1030] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Association adopted and signed by the Committees of the District of Wilmington, in North-Carolina. [1775-06-20] North-Carolina, Wilmington District Committees; Rowan, Robert; Nowland, Maurice; Evans, Theophilus; De Lesline, Joseph; Overler, John; Terrell, Micajah; Wilson, John; Rae, Thomas; Emmitt, James; Varden, Aaron; West, Oners; Fletcher, George; Pearl, James; Barge, Lewis; Leonard, Martin; Moody, Thomas; Council, Arthur; Shephard, David; Messer, Peter; Cabein, Thomas; Douse, Daniel; Dick, James; Stephenson, John; Bathgate, William; Stevens, Charles; Parker, John; Murray, Walter; Gillespie, William; Herin, Philip; Varner, Robert; Elwell, John; Dunn, David; Bandy, Simon; Greer, Robert; Hadley, Joshua; Blocker, William; Hollingsworth, Samuel; Glendenin, John; Carver, William; Edmunds, James; Carraway, John; Herin, William; Evans, David; Gee, James; Elwell, Benjamin; White, William; Greer, Joseph; White, Thomas; Jones, John; Council, Robert; Giffy, James; Carver, Robert; Carver, Samuel; Barnes, George. [S4-V2-p1030] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee of Accomack County, Virginia, requiring Masters of all Vessels bringing Goods for sale to bring certificates that the Goods were imported agreeable to the Continental Association. [1775-06-20] Virginia, Accomack County Committee; Henry, James; Powell, John. [S4-V2-p1031] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Washington to the Independent Companies of Fairfax County, Virginia, informing them of his appointment to the command of the Continental Army. [1775-06-20] Washington, George. [S4-V2-p1031] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Washington to John Augustine Washington. Has been chosen to the command of the Continental Army, by the partiality of Congress, joined to a political motive, and will set out tomorrow for Boston. [1775-06-20] Washington, George. [S4-V2-p1031] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee for the new County proposed to be formed in Delaware, at Broad Creek: bind themselves and constituents, by every thing sacred, collectively and separately, to enforce and carry into execution whatever measures have or may be recommended, for the preservation of the Liberties of America. [1775-06-20] Dagworthy, John, Colonel; Jones, John; Tennant, John; Collins, John; Kollock, Simon; Holland, William; Slosse, Samuel; Polk, Joshua; Bayley, Clement; Polk, William; Mitchell, John; Hubbard, Peter; Cannon, Elijah. [S4-V2-p1032] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Philadelphia to a Gentleman in London. Two propositions which Congress intend to make to the British Government. [1775-06-20] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1032] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Philadelphia to a Gentleman in London. Colonel George Washington is, at the particular request of the People of New-England, and with the unanimous consent of Congress, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Forces. [1775-06-20] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1033] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from President Hancock to the New-Hampshire Congress, enclosing a Resolve passed yesterday for re-enforcing the Army before Boston. [1775-06-20] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p1034] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Enclosed Resolve passed yesterday for re-enforcing the Army before Boston. [1775-06-19] Continental Congress; Thomson, Charles. [S4-V2-p1034] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Delegates at Philadelphia to the Provincial Congress. The greatest unanimity prevails in the Congress, one and all being determined to defend our rights to the last. [1775-06-20] New-Hampshire Delegates, Continental Congress; Sullivan, John; Langdon, John. [S4-V2-p1035] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to Governour Trumbull, enclosing a Resolution of the Continental Congress of the 16th instant. A small supply of Gunpowder has been lately received, and half a ton of it will be forwarded to General Wooster for the Provincial Army at Boston. [1775-06-20] . [S4-V2-p1306] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Provincial Congress of New-York to General Wooster, in reply to his Letters of the 17th and 18th instant. [1775-06-20] . [S4-V2-p1307] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Continental Congress. Has sent fifty barrels of Powder with the greatest secrecy and despatch to the American Army before Boston, and will send ten barrels more, which is all that can be supplied, as none can be obtained in the Colony. [1775-06-20] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1035] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Gentleman in Providence, Rhode-Island, to his friend in New-York. Account of the Battle of Bunker's Hill on the 17th instant. [1775-06-20] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1036] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Governour and Committee of War for Connecticut. [1775-06-07] Connecticut, Committee of War; Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut; Griswold, Matthew, Deputy Governour of Connecticut; Huntington, Jabez; Williams, William; Wales, Nathaniel; Elderkin, Jedediah; West, Joshua; Huntington, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1037] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Governour and Committee of War for Connecticut. [1775-06-17] Connecticut, Committee of War; Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut; Griswold, Matthew, Deputy Governour of Connecticut; Huntington, Jabez; Williams, William; Wales, Nathaniel; Elderkin, Jedediah; West, Joshua; Huntington, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1037] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Governour and Committee of War for Connecticut. [1775-06-19] Connecticut, Committee of War; Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut; Griswold, Matthew, Deputy Governour of Connecticut; Huntington, Jabez; Williams, William; Wales, Nathaniel; Elderkin, Jedediah; West, Joshua; Huntington, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1038] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Governour and Committee of War for Connecticut. [1775-06-20] Connecticut, Committee of War; Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut; Griswold, Matthew, Deputy Governour of Connecticut; Huntington, Jabez; Williams, William; Wales, Nathaniel; Elderkin, Jedediah; West, Joshua; Huntington, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1039] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Continental Congress. Account of the Battle of Bunker's Hill. [1775-06-20] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Warren, James; Freeman, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1039] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to General Ward. [1775-06-20] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1041] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Selectmen of the Town of Townshend, in Massachusetts, to the Provincial Congress. Are out of Powder, and ask for an order on the Town of Ashby for one of the two barrels they have. [1775-06-20] Massachusetts, Townshend Selectmen; Hosley, James. [S4-V2-p1041] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Richard Derby, Jun., to Capt. James Kirkwood. [1775-06-20] Derby, Richard, Jr.. [S4-V2-p1041] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of Edward Bucknam and Seth Wales, to Colonels Bailey and Heard, of the information gained from the Indians on the Canada Frontiers, by two Scouts, sent for that purpose. [1775-06-20] Bucknam, Edward; Wales, Seth. [S4-V2-p1041] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Secret Committee of South-Carolina to Colonel Moultrie. Furnish him with Powder for the two Regiments of Infantry. Recommend to him the greatest caution and prudence, and to permit no Soldier to stand sentry over the Powder, but such as are known friends to the Liberties of America. [1775-06-21] South-Carolina, Secret Committee; Drayton, William Henry. [S4-V2-p1042] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Deputation of the Provincial Congress of South-Carolina, to present an Address to the Governour, Lord William Campbell. [1775-06-21] South-Carolina Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1048] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address and Declaration of the Provincial Congress to the Governour. [1775-06-20] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Laurens, Henry. [S4-V2-p1048] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Answer of the Governour. [1775-06-21] Campbell, William, Lord, Governour of South-Carolina. [S4-V2-p1048] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Provincial Congress of South-Carolina, to testify their resentment of the base and cruel conduct of the Inhabitants of Poole, a Seaport in the English Channel, refuse to hold any communication with that People, or carry on any transactions with them, or employ any shipping belonging to that Port, or to any Inhabitant of the place. [1775-06-21] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Timothy, Peter. [S4-V2-p1044] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Observation for Frederick County, Maryland. Committees of Correspondence for each District in the County appointed. Two Companies of Riflemen raised, in compliance with a Resolution of the Continental Congress, Officers of the Companies appointed, and their pay established. [1775-06-21] Maryland, Frederick County Committee. [S4-V2-p1044] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Observation for Frederick County, Maryland. Committees of Correspondence for each District in the County appointed. Two Companies of Riflemen raised, in compliance with a Resolution of the Continental Congress, Officers of the Companies appointed, and their pay established. [1775-06-21] Maryland, Frederick County Committee. [S4-V2-p1044] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Observation for Frederick County, Maryland. Committees of Correspondence for each District in the County appointed. Two Companies of Riflemen raised, in compliance with a Resolution of the Continental Congress, Officers of the Companies appointed, and their pay established. [1775-06-21] Maryland, Frederick County Committee. [S4-V2-p1045] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Provincial Congress to the Committee for the City and County of New-York, requesting them immediately to purchase all the Saltpetre in the City and County, and to inform the Congress what quantity of Brimstone and Sulphur may be purchased in the City. [1775-06-21] . [S4-V2-p1310] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New-York Committee. Letter received, dated May 30, from Jonathan Parsons, Jun., Newfoundland, informing of the arrival there of the Ship Sally, Captain Taverner, from this Port. [1775-06-21] New-York Committee. [S4-V2-p1046] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Inquiry by a Committee into facts of Captain Taverner's Voyage. [1775-06-21] New-York Committee; Walton, William; Broome, John; Fleming, Edward; Lamb, John. [S4-V2-p1046] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Deposition of Theophilact Bache, that Captain Taverner was ordered to proceed directly to Falmouth, or some other Port in Great Britain, and that he had no agency in causing the Ship Sally to stop at Newfoundland. [1775-06-21] Bache, Theophilact; Matthews, D.. [S4-V2-p1046] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Joseph Johnson, a licensed Preacher of the Gospel amongst seven different Tribes of New-England Indians, and the Oneidas, to the Provincial Congress of New-York. [1775-06-21] Johnson, Joseph (Mohegan). [S4-V2-p1047] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Gentleman in New-York to his friend in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a gross calumny to say we are aiming at Independency. Our political principles are the same that raised the House of Hanover to the Throne, and were your Ministers to adopt these principles we would lay down our arms. [1775-06-21] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1047] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Albany, New-York, Committee, to the Continental Congress. Certain information received of the hostile intentions of Governour Carleton, who was daily giving presents to Caughnawaga Indians, they having agreed to take up the hatchet. The Troops at Ticonderoga are much in want of Powder. The Frontier Inhabitants are not half supplied with Arms or Powder, and they request some may he forwarded with all the despatch possible. [1775-06-21] New-York, Albany Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection; Stringer, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1048] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Captain Chapman, an officer in General Gage's Army at Boston, to a friend in Ireland. The Army of the Rebels consists of at least fifteen thousand, and is daily increasing, the Pulpits and the Publick Meetings breathe nothing but sedition, the People are in the most slavish subjection to the Priests and Demagogues, the Resolves of the Congress are mostly inflammatory, they have tried and passed sentence on several who have dared to contravene their inquisitorial decrees, their aim is Independency. [1775-06-21] Chapman, Benjamin, Captain. [S4-V2-p1049] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts from seven Stockbridge Indians, soldiers enlisted in the Provincial Army. [1775-06-21] Naunuptauk, Jehoiakim (Stockbridge); Koukpoot, Abraham (Stockbridge); Auhhheckhurinauhoot, Moses (Stockbridge); Paupoumham, Cornelius (Stockbridge); Natauksen, William (Stockbridge); Oasauwampummunk, John (Stockbridge); Naunaumpretaunkey, Abraham (Stockbridge); Waunnehuaumel, Benjamin (Stockbridge); Wauyumpskeynunnaunt, Daniel (Stockbridge); Astoksim, Jehoiakim (Stockbridge); Squintrop, Samuel (Stockbridge); Shackheakauwoh, Joseph (Stockbridge); Tusnuk, Jacob (Stockbridge); Hickimmun, Thomas (Stockbridge); Naunawnecknauck, David (Stockbridge); Notauksen, Bill (Stockbridge); Shepaunerwaunkun, John (Stockbridge). [S4-V2-p1049] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Thomas Twining to the Massachusetts Congress, in behalf of himself and the Association of Eastham, against Amos Knowles, a Member of the Congress, who is charged with being an opposer of the common cause of the Country, with sundry accompanying papers. [1775-06-21] Twining, Thomas. [S4-V2-p1050] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-06-12] Crocker, Job; Mayo, Nathaniel; Paine, Thomas; Gould, Thomas; Higgins, Eliakim; Davis, John. [S4-V2-p1050] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-06] Doane, Jonathan; Knowles, Edward; Doane, Samuel, Jr.; Linnel, Jonathan, Jr.; Myrick, William, Jr.. [S4-V2-p1051] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-02-20] Massachusetts, Eastham Freeholders; Baty, Gideon; Massachusetts, Eastham Committee of Correspondence; Sparrow, Isaac; Cole, Joseph; Davis, John; Twining, Thomas. [S4-V2-p1051] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-02-24] Massachusetts, Eastham Assocation; Linnel, Thomas; Young, Elkanah; Twining, Jonathan; Cole, John; Arey, Oliver; Higgins, Jesse; Twining, Barnabas; Rogers, Judas; Linnel, Thomas, III; Snow, Stephen; Snow, Edmund; Mayo, Nathaniel; Higgins, Elkanah; Crocker, Job; Freeman, Prince; Cole, Joshua; Rogers, Thomas, Jr.; Kenny, Jesse; Hopkins, Joseph; Cole, Elkanah; Higgins, Gideon; Cole, Isaac; Twining, Elijah; Nickerson, Yates; Young, Philip; Higgins, Sylvanus; Higgins, Freeman; Remick, Christian, Jr.; Cook, Richard; Hurd, Joseph; Mayo, Theophilus, Jr.; Snow, Elnathan; Higgins, Solomon; Rogers, Prince; Gould, John; Knowles, Samuel; Mayo, Theophilus; Young, Isaac; Higgins, Isaac; Hopkins, Isaac; Rogers, James; Sparrow, Isaac, Jr.; Atwood, John; Higgins, Zaccheus; Freeman, Gideon; Rogers, Samuel; Snow, Prince; Linnel, John; Mayo, Joseph, Jr.; Snow, Jonathan; Gould, Joshua; Knowles, Joshua; Remick, Christian; Higgins, Simeon, Jr.; Higgins, Eliakim; Cole, Reuben; Davis, John; Paine, Nathaniel; Rich, David; Pepper, Joseph; Linnel, Enoch; Cole, Daniel, Jr.; Paine, Thomas; Higgins, Isaiah; Twining, Thomas; Freeman, Edmund; Mayo, Asa; Linnel, Jonathan; Rogers, Thomas; Higgins, Moses; Cole, Gershom; Doane, Joshua; Cole, Joseph; Brown, Thomas; Sparrow, Isaac; Linnel, Jonathan, III; Linnel, Heman; Arey, Thomas; Higgins, David; Freeman, Eleazer, Jr.; Rogers, Solomon; Rogers, Jonathan; Mayo, Joshua; Knowles, Josiah; Twining, Prince; Crosby, Joshua; Martin, Bryan; Higgins, Seth; Paine, Isaac; Cole, Nathaniel; Nickerson, Asa; Smith, Joseph, III; Higgins, Zaccheus, Jr.. [S4-V2-p1052] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-05-26] Massachusetts, Eastham Committee of Correspondence; Sparrow, Isaac; Cole, Joseph; Paine, Thomas. [S4-V2-p1052] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-05-26] Massachusetts, Eastham Committee of Correspondence; Sparrow, Isaac; Cole, Joseph; Massachusetts, Eastham Assocation; Twining, Thomas; Freeman, Gideon. [S4-V2-p1053] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-06-16] Linnel, Jonathan; Greenough, John. [S4-V2-p1054] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-06-16] Paine, Samuel; Greenough, John. [S4-V2-p1054] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-06-15] Cole, Joseph; Sparrow, Isaac; Greenough, John. [S4-V2-p1054] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accompanying Papers. [1775-06-15] Linnel, Jonathan, III. [S4-V2-p1054] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of a Committee on the complaint against Captain Knowles, not accepted. [1775-06] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1055] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Reverend Samuel Webster to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-06-21] Webster, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1055] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Provincial Congress of South-Carolina, direct Absentees to return to the Colony, and forbid persons holding Estates to withdraw from its service. [1775-06-22] South-Carolina Provincial Congress; Timothy, Peter. [S4-V2-p1056] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the People of Henrico County, Va.. [1775-06-22] A Friend to Liberty (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1056] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to Friends and Countrymen by a Virginian. [1775-06-22] A Virginian (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1057] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Samuel Adams to Elbridge Gerry. [1775-06-22] Adams, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1058] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Charles Lee to Lord Barrington, renouncing his Pay as an Officer in the British Army. [1775-06-22] Lee, Charles, General. [S4-V2-p1058] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter From General Gates to General Washington, accepting his appointment. [1775-06-20] Gates, Horatio, General. [S4-V2-p1058] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of William Elphinston to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-22] Elphinston, William. [S4-V2-p1059] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Elisha Phelps to the New-York Congress. Has been appointed by Connecticut Commissary for the Northern Army: has arrived at Albany, and has been furnished with no Supplies for the Troops. [1775-06-22] Phelps, Elisha. [S4-V2-p1059] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Weathersfield, in Connecticut, to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. Account of the Battle on the 17th instant. The People are rejoiced to hear of the coming of General Washington, and will receive him with open arms. [1775-06-22] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1060] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to a Member of the Continental Congress, from a Gentleman in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Our Messengers to the Six Nations were taken by the Regulars, carried to Montreal, tried by a Court-Martial, and condemned to be hanged, and were only released upon the threatenings of the Indian Sachems to treat them as enemies if they did not let the prisoners go. [1775-06-22] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1060] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Correspondence at Plymouth to the Committee for Providence. [1775-06-22] Massachusetts, Plymouth Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p1061] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress. Thinks it is not proper to order a Regiment from Roxbury to Cambridge, as requested by the Congress, but if they order it he will do so. [1775-06-22] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1061] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Benjamin Greenleaf to the Massachusetts Congress. The Committee of Newburyport are unwilling to give up the little Powder they have, as requested by the Congress, unless the publick cause renders it absolutely necessary, in which case they will give up the last ounce, the destruction of their Town being a trivial matter compared with a final defeat of the Army. [1775-06-22] Massachusetts, Newburyport Committee of Correspondence; Greenleaf, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1062] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Stephen Hooper to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-22] Hooper, Stephen. [S4-V2-p1062] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of the Engagement on the 17th. Charlestown set on fire by the British, contained about three hundred Dwelling-Houses, many of them large and elegant, besides one hundred and fifty or two hundred other Buildings, which are almost all laid in ashes. [1775-06-22] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1062] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Folsom to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-06-22] Folsom, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V2-p1063] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee for Charles City County, Virginia, to the Committee and Free-holders of Buckingham County, in reply to their offer of an asylum for their Wives and Children, if the lower Counties are attacked by the enemy. [1775-06-23] Virginia, Charles City County Committee; Munford, William G.; Harwood, Samuel; Tyler, John. [S4-V2-p1061] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Albany Committee to the Massachusetts Congress, they have received a vague and uncertain account of the late Action at Charlestown, request to be furnished with a circumstantial detail of the Engagement, and its consequences. [1775-06-23] New-York, Albany Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection; Stringer, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1061] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to Mr. Holt. The County of Cumberland, in New-York, having been represented as inimical to the late Continental Congress and the Provincial Congresses, he is requested to publish the Proceedings of the General Committee of that County, in October last. [1775-06-23] New-York, Cumberland County Committee. [S4-V2-p1061] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proceedings of the Committees from a number of Townships in the County of Cumberland, held at the County Hall, at Westminster, on the 19th and 20th days of October, 1774. [October 10-11, 1775] New-York, Cumberland County Committee; Hazeltine, John. [S4-V2-p1065] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Arnold to the Continental Congress. The opinion of the Committee sent by Massachusetts, to inquire into the importance of holding Ticonderoga and Crown Point, is, that if the Enemy had possession of these Fortresses it would place the New-England Colonies and New-York in the utmost danger. [1775-06-23] Arnold, Benedict. [S4-V2-p1066] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Continental Congress. [1775-06-23] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1067] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from an Officer on board one of the King's Ships, at Boston, to a friend in London. The Engagement on the 17th lasted four hours, and ended infinitely to our disadvantage. The Americans, when we landed, so far from retreating, as we expected, marched towards us with the greatest coolness and regularity. The Provincials fought like men who had no care for their persons, and disputed every inch of ground. [1775-06-23] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1067] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition to the Massachusetts Congress, from the Selectmen, Officers of the Militia, and Committee of Correspondence of Manchester. The Town being greatly exposed to their merciless enemies, they request permission to raise a Company of Men on the Provincial establishment, to be kept there for their security and defence. [1775-06-23] Massachusetts, Manchester Selectmen; Tewxbury, John; Woodbury, Andrew; Coupt, Eleazer; Massachusetts, Manchester Militia Officers; Lee, John; Marsters, Andrew; Foster, Samuel; Craft, Eleazer; Massachusetts, Manchester Committee of Correspondence; Brown, Jonathan; Whipple, Joseph. [S4-V2-p1068] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Massachusetts Congress to General Ward. [1775-06-23] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1069] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Folsom to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. Colonel Stark refuses to be under any subordination to any person appointed by the Congress of New-Hampshire to the general command of the New-Hampshire Troops. [1775-06-23] Folsom, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V2-p1069] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of Colonel Bailey to the Northern Indians. [1775-06-23] Bailey, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1070] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Livery of London, in Common Hall. An humble Address, Remonstrance and Petition to the King on this important crisis in American affairs, ordered to be presented to His Majesty, sitting on his Throne. [1775-06-24] Livery of London. [S4-V2-p1070] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Livery of London, June 27, 1775. [1775-06-27] Livery of London. [S4-V2-p1071] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Sheriffs who waited on the King to know when he would permit the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council to wait on him with their Petition. The King refuses to receive it on the Throne, and the Lord Mayor refuses to present it to him in any other place. The Petition ordered to be published. [1775-07-04] Livery of London; George III, King of Great Britain. [S4-V2-p1071] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Livery of London, July 5, 1775. [1775-07-05] Livery of London. [S4-V2-p1072] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Humble Address, Remonstrance and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Livery of London to the King. [1775-06-24] Livery of London. [S4-V2-p1073] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to General Gage. [1775-06-24] Verus (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1074] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from President Hancock to the New-York Congress. The Continental Congress are of opinion that the employing of Green Mountain Boys would be advantageous to the common cause, they are requested to embody them with the Troops raised for the defence of the Northern Frontier. [1775-06-24] Hancock, John. [S4-V2-p1076] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Three Battalions. [1775-06-24] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Militia. [S4-V2-p1076] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Philadelphia Committee. [1775-06-24] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p1076] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the General Committee of Observation for the County of Burlington, New-Jersey. Association and other Proceedings of the Provincial Congress at Trenton approved of. [1775-06-24] New-Jersey, Burlington County Committee; Tallman, Peter. [S4-V2-p1077] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler, New-Brunswick, New-Jersey, to the New-York Congress. General Washington will be at Newark tomorrow morning, at nine o'clock, where he wishes to meet a Deputation of the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-24] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1078] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Hart, Jun., Stamford, Connecticut, to Dr. Carrington, enclosing an intercepted Letter, dated New-York, June 19th. [1775-06-25] Hart, John, Jr.. [S4-V2-p1078] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Intercepted Letter, Dated New-York, June 19th. [1775-06-19] Incognito (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1078] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from a Merchant in Boston to his Brother in Scotland, giving him an account of the Battle with the Rebels on the 17th instant. The chief breastwork of the Provincials was the strongest post that was ever occupied by any set of men, the spirit and bravery the British Troops exhibited on the occasion is not to be surpassed in history. To the great satisfaction of all good men, Dr. Warren was slain. [1775-06-24] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1079] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Order by the Massachusetts Congress for observing Thursday, 13th of July, as a day of Publick Fasting and Prayer throughout the Colony. [1775-06-24] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1080] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress. Lieutenant Francis Cox, of Salem, has deserted the service, and told his men they might go home, for no one had a right to stop them, many of the men are gone, and it is probable others will go. [1775-06-24] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1080] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Folsom to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, for Cannon for the Camp at Winter Hill. General Ward, who has been appealed to, cannot supply them. [1775-06-24] Folsom, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V2-p1081] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
James McGregore to the New-Hampshire Congress. [1775-06-24] McGregore, James. [S4-V2-p1081] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proposed vindication and offer to Parliament, drawn up in a Committee of Congress, (by Dr. Franklin). [1775-06-25] Continental Congress; Franklin, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1081] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Note to the Proposed Vindication. [1642-03-10] . [S4-V2-p1082] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Washington to the American Congress. One thousand pounds of Powder were sent from New-York to the camp at Cambridge, leaving at this time but four barrels in the City of New-York. [1775-06-25] Washington, George. [S4-V2-p1084] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
General Washington's Orders and Instructions to General Schuyler, appointed to the command of the Northern Department. [1775-06-25] Washington, George. [S4-V2-p1084] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Washington to the President and Members of the Continental Congress. [1775-06-25] Washington, George. [S4-V2-p1085] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Contradiction of the Statement made by Colonel Easton to the Massachusetts Congress, on the 17th of May last, of the reduction of Ticonderoga, denying to Colonel Easton any participation in its capture. [1775-06-25] Veritas (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1085] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Contradiction of the Statement made by Colonel Easton to the Massachusetts Congress, on the 17th of May last, of the reduction of Ticonderoga, denying to Colonel Easton any participation in its capture. [1775-05-18] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1085] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Contradiction of the Statement made by Colonel Easton to the Massachusetts Congress, on the 17th of May last, of the reduction of Ticonderoga, denying to Colonel Easton any participation in its capture. [1775-06-25] Veritas (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1086] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Thaddeus Burr to General Wooster, enclosing a Letter to him from Isaac Lothrop, one of the Provincial Congress at Watertown, dated June 22, giving an account of the action on the 17th instant. [1775-06-25] Burr, Thaddeus. [S4-V2-p1089] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Isaac Lothrop. [1775-06-22] Lothrop, Isaac. [S4-V2-p1089] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Thaddeus Burr to General Wooster, enclosing a Letter to him from Isaac Lothrop, one of the Provincial Congress at Watertown, dated June 22, giving an account of the action on the 17th instant. [1775-06-25] Burr, Thaddeus. [S4-V2-p1089] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Andrew Gilman appointed a Lieutenant by the Massachusetts Congress, and instructed to visit and cultivate a peaceable disposition with the Indians. [1775-06-25] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1090] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Andrew Gilman appointed a Lieutenant by the Massachusetts Congress, and instructed to visit and cultivate a peaceable disposition with the Indians. [1775-06-25] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Warren, James. [S4-V2-p1090] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Lane to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-25] Lane, John. [S4-V2-p1090] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to Governour Trumbull, for re-enforcements for the Army. [1775-06-25] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1090] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Selectmen of Bradford. A Company of fifty Minute-Men enlisted in the Town of Bradford, under Captain Gage, to serve for one year from February, 1775, have all, except two, scandalously deserted the cause of their Country, and stained their own honour by leaving the Camp and returning home. [1775-06-25] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p1091] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Folsom to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-06-25] Folsom, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V2-p1092] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from an Officer in the Army at Boston to his friend in England, giving an account of the Battle of Bunker's Hill. [1775-06-25] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1092] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract of a Letter from Boston to Gentleman in Scotland, Dated June 25, 1775. [1775-06-25] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1093] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley. Account of the Battle of Bunker's Hill. [1775-06-25] Burgoyne, John, General. [S4-V2-p1094] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to General Burgoyne: Strictures on his Letter to Lord Stanley. [1775] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1095] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. The trials we have had show the Rebels are not the despicable rabble too many have supposed them to be, when they find cover they make a good stand. The conquest of this Country is not easy, and can be effected only by time and perseverance and strong armies attacking it in various quarters and dividing their forces. [1775-06-25] Gage, Thomas, General. [S4-V2-p1097] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth, with his account of the Battle of Bunker's Hill. [1775-06-25] Gage, Thomas, General. [S4-V2-p1097] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Return of the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates Killed and Wounded of His Majesty's Troops, at the attack of the Redoubts and Intrenchments, on the Heights of Charlestown, June 17, 1775. [1775-06-17] . [S4-V2-p1098] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Observations on the Government account of the late Action near Charlestown. [1775-08-01] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1099] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Further Observations. [1775-08] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1101] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Further Observations. [1775-08-06] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1101] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Message from the Governour of Grenada to the House of Assembly, requiring that the Address and Minutes of the House, in favour of the rebellious subjects in America, be rescinded. [1775-06-26] Young, William, Governour of Grenada. [S4-V2-p1102] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Message from the House to the Governour, informing him an Address to the King had passed the House in consequence of an unanimous Resolution for that purpose, it had been delivered to the late Speaker, and is no longer in the possession of the House. [1775-06-28] Grenada and the Grenadines, House of Assembly. [S4-V2-p1102] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolutions of the House refusing to comply with the peremptory demands of the Governour to rescind the Minutes. [1775-06-28] Grenada and the Grenadines, House of Assembly. [S4-V2-p1102] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Proclamation of the Governour dissolving the Assembly. [1775-06-26] Young, William, Governour of Grenada; Porteus, John. [S4-V2-p1103] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of sundry Gentlemen at Savannah, in Georgia. Declare the Acts of Parliament, for raising a Revenue in America, are grievances, and they will do all they legally may to obtain a redress of those grievances. [1775-06-26] Georgia, Savannah Inhabitants. [S4-V2-p1103] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee for Talbot County, Maryland. Information of the arrival in the Chesapeake Bay of the Ship Johnston, Captain Jones, from Liverpool, with Salt and Dry Goods. [1775-06-26] Maryland, Talbot County Committee. [S4-V2-p1103] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Sub-Committee who examined the Ship Johnston, with a schedule of the Goods on board, shipped by James Gildart and John Gawith, of Liverpool, who are declared to have violated the Association. [1775-07-07] Maryland, Talbot County Committee; Bracco, John. [S4-V2-p1104] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Sub-Committee who examined the Ship Johnston, with a schedule of the Goods on board, shipped by James Gildart and John Gawith, of Liverpool, who are declared to have violated the Association. [1775-06-28] Harrison, Thomas; Hamilton, William; Skinner, Richard; Rice, Hugh; Bracco, John. [S4-V2-p1104] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia. Resolve that Henry Cour and Nicholas Ashton, of Liverpool, have knowingly violated the Association of the American Congress, by shipping Salt to America in the Ship Albion, and that the Ship and Cargo return to Liverpool forthwith. [1775-06-26] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Association; Smith, Jonathan B.. [S4-V2-p1105] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John Lamb to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-26] Lamb, John; Roorback, Garret. [S4-V2-p1106] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from John French to the New-York Congress. Cannot take his seat in Congress, as it appears he was not elected by a majority. [1775-06-26] French, Joseph. [S4-V2-p1106] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Robert R. Livingston to the New-York Congress. His Powder Mill is in operation, and will immediately begin making the Powder. [1775-06-26] Livingston, Robert R.. [S4-V2-p1106] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to President Hancock. [1775-06-26] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1106] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Gage to Lord Dunmore, informing him of his victory over the Rebels, on the 17th. [1775-06-26] Gage, Thomas, General. [S4-V2-p1107] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extract of a Letter From a British Officer in Boston, Dated June 26, 1775. [1775-06-26] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1107] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-26] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1107] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Enclosed Resolve in the Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-20] Continental Congress; Hancock, John; Thomson, Charles. [S4-V2-p1107] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-26] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1108] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee for Northfield, Massachusetts, to the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-26] Massachusetts, Northfield Committee. [S4-V2-p1108] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-26] Massachusetts, Plymouth Committee of Correspondence; Croswell, Andrew; Bradford, Gamaliel, Jr.; Gray, John. [S4-V2-p1108] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to General Folsom. [1775-06-26] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety; Thornton, Matthew. [S4-V2-p1109] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Mason to New-Hampshire Congress. [1775-06-26] New-Hampshire, Mason Committee; Adams, Ephraim; Blodgett, David. [S4-V2-p1109] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Wright to General Gage. The unhappy affair of the 19th of April, and some late occurrences in South-Carolina, have forced the People of Georgia into the same predicament with others. He has neither Men nor Money. The King's Officers, and friends to Government are left naked, and exposed to the resentment of an enraged People. [1775-06-27] Wright, James, Baronet, Governour of Georgia. [S4-V2-p1109] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter sent in place of the foregoing, (which was intercepted and suppressed,) by the Secret Committee of Charlestown, South-Carolina, (Note). [1775-06-27] South-Carolina, Secret Committee. [S4-V2-p1110] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Gov. Wright to Admiral Graves, urging him to send a Sloop-of-War to Savannah immediately, a Vessel with a quantity of Gunpowder is expected, and Boats and Men from South-Carolina are waiting to take her, and he has no means to prevent it. [1775-06-27] Wright, James, Baronet, Governour of Georgia. [S4-V2-p1111] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter substituted for the foregoing by the Secret Committee of South-Carolina, (Note). [1775-06-27] South-Carolina, Secret Committee. [S4-V2-p1111] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Charlestown, South-Carolina, to a Gentleman in Philadelphia, enclosing Extracts of Letters from the Superintendent and Agent of Indian Affairs in Georgia. [1775-06-27] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1111] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extracts of Letters from the Superintendent and Agent of Indian Affairs in Georgia. [1775-06-15] Wilson, John. [S4-V2-p1112] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extracts of Letters from the Superintendent and Agent of Indian Affairs in Georgia. [1775-06] Stuart, John. [S4-V2-p1112] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extracts of Letters from the Superintendent and Agent of Indian Affairs in Georgia. [1775-06] Cameron. [S4-V2-p1112] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee of Accomack County, Virginia. John Sherlock declared an enemy to American Liberty. Recantation of Mr. Sherlock. [1775-06-27] Virginia, Accomack County Committee; Powell, John. [S4-V2-p1112] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee of Accomack County, Virginia. John Sherlock declared an enemy to American Liberty. Recantation of Mr. Sherlock. [1775] Virginia, Accomack County Committee. [S4-V2-p1113] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Recantation of Mr. Sherlock. [1775] Sherlock, John. [S4-V2-p1113] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee for Bedford County, Virginia: offer assistance and protection to such of the Inhabitants of the lower parts of the Colony as may be obliged to quit their habitations. [1775-06-27] Alexander, Robert. [S4-V2-p1113] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from President Hancock to the New-York Congress, enclosing a List of the General Officers appointed to command the Continental Forces. [1775-06-27] Hancock, John; Continental Congress. [S4-V2-p1114] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to Governour Trumbull. A Guard has been sent to escort four Wagons loaded with Gunpowder, from New-Jersey, for the Camp at Cambridge. [1775-06-27] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p1114] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New-York. Adopt the Resolutions and determinations of the Continental Congress, and the injunctions of the Provincial Congress, and will abide by, adhere to, and support them. Apologize for their past conduct, in having so late come into the Congressional measures. [1775-06-27] New-York, Brookhaven Committee; Woodhull, John. [S4-V2-p0938] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Thomas Hicks to the New-York Congress, with his reasons for not taking his seat in Congress, and account of the election in Queen's County, where they decline for the present to send Delegates. [1775-06-27] Hicks, Thomas. [S4-V2-p1114] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition and Remonstrance of Herman Zedtwitz to the New-York Provincial Congress, for permission to raise a Regiment of Riflemen, and appoint him to the command of it. [1775-06-27] Zedtwitz, Herman. [S4-V2-p1115] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Elisha Phelps, at Ticonderoga, to he Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-27] Phelps, Elisha. [S4-V2-p1116] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Massachusetts Congress. Is informed by Colonel Hinman, at Ticonderoga, that the British are fortifying St. John's, and that the Caughnawaga Indians have had a war-dance, being brought to it by General Carleton. [1775-06-27] Trumbull, Jonathan, Governour of Connecticut. [S4-V2-p1116] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committees of Inspection for the Towns of Tiverton and Little Compton, R. I.. [1775-06-27] Rhode-Island, Tiverton Committee of Inspection; Rhode-Island, Little-Compton Committee of Inspection; Ladd, William. [S4-V2-p1117] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Governour Cooke to the Massachusetts Congress. Rhode-Island is about to fit out two Armed Vessels for the protection of their trade, a few Vessels, properly armed and manned, would be a great means of protecting the coast, and might enable us to make reprisals. [1775-06-27] Cooke, Nicholas, Governour of Rhode-Island. [S4-V2-p1118] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Extracts of Letters received in Philadelphia, from Gentlemen in the Army at Cambridge. [1775-06-27] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1118] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Massachusetts Congress, recommending Col. William Henshaw for Adjutant-General. [1775-06-27] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1119] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Thomas to the Massachusetts Congress, with a request from the Selectmen of Boston that Provisions may be sent into Boston for the American Prisoners taken on the 17th, at Charlestown. [1775-06-27] Thomas, John, General. [S4-V2-p1119] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Thomas to the Massachusetts Congress, with a request from the Selectmen of Boston that Provisions may be sent into Boston for the American Prisoners taken on the 17th, at Charlestown. [1775-06-23] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1119] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Thomas to the Massachusetts Congress, with a request from the Selectmen of Boston that Provisions may be sent into Boston for the American Prisoners taken on the 17th, at Charlestown. [1775-06-26] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1119] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel David Brewer to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-27] Brewer, David, Colonel. [S4-V2-p1119] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Officers of Colonels Prescott, Frye and Bridge's Regiments, to the Massachusetts Congress, praying an allowance for their losses in the Battle on the 17th instant. [1775-06-27] Prescott, William, Colonel; Bridge, Ebenezer, Colonel; Brickett, James; Woods, Henry; Ames, Benjamin; Davis, John; Nutting, John; Lakin, Nathaniel; Mosher, John; Abbott, Isaac; Brown, Isaac; Evans, Jonathan; Lawrence, Asa; Wyman, Abijah; Farwell, Henry; Coburn, Peter; Ford, John; Flint, John. [S4-V2-p1119] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Officers of Colonels Prescott, Frye and Bridge's Regiments, to the Massachusetts Congress, praying an allowance for their losses in the Battle on the 17th instant. [1775-06-29] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress. [S4-V2-p1120] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Continental Congress. The Continental Army before Boston are restrained from returning the fire of the British, which is kept up daily, lest by so doing they exhaust their little stock of powder, and place them at the mercy of their enemies. Nothing can so much merit the immediate attention of the Congress as the means of supplying this Army in the speediest manner with Gunpowder. [1775-06-27] Massachusetts, Provincial Congress Committee; Hawley, Joseph; Porter, Elisha. [S4-V2-p1120] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Folsom to the New.-Hampshire Committee of Safety. [1775-06-27] Folsom, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V2-p1121] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Committee, to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, enclosing an intercepted Letter from Boston. [1775-06-27] New-Hampshire, Portsmouth Committee of Safety; Gaines, George. [S4-V2-p1122] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from James Henderson to Hugh Henderson. [1775-06-22] Henderson, James. [S4-V2-p1122] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committees of Hanover and Lebanon to the New-Hampshire Congress. [1775-06-22] New-Hampshire Congress. [S4-V2-p1542] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Meeting of the Committee of Observation for Anne Arundel County and City of Annapolis. Forbid the landing of Goods imported in the Ship Adventure, from London. [1775-06-28] Maryland, Anne Arundel County Committee; Duvall, G.. [S4-V2-p1122] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler to the Continental Congress. Two Regiments of Connecticut Troops have arrived within two miles of New-York. Reports prevail there that the Indians have accepted the hatchet offered them by General Carleton, and that considerable bodies of them have been seen going to Montreal. Eight Transports with Troops are now at Sandy-Hook. [1775-06-28] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1123] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to their Delegates in the Continental Congress. Deeply impressed with the necessity of an accommodation with our Parent State, and conscious that the best service we can render to the present and all future generations must consist in promoting it, we have laboured to point out such moderate terms as may tend to reconcile the unhappy differences, and take the liberty of enclosing the result of our deliberations. [1775-06-28] . [S4-V2-p1329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Peter T. Curtenius to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-28] Curtenius, Peter T.. [S4-V2-p1124] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Charlotte County, New-York, Committee, to the Provincial Congress. Disturbances in the County, the People are dissatisfied with the order of Congress to remove the Cannon from Ticonderoga. [1775-06-28] New-York, Charlotte County Committee; Marsh, William; Rose, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1124] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the Inhabitants of the German Flats, to the Oneida and Tuscarora Indians assembled there. [1775-06-28] New-York, German Flats Inhabitants. [S4-V2-p1125] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the English Merchants, of Quebeck, to General Carleton, offer their services to protect the place, and request the Militia to be embodied. [1775-06-28] . [S4-V2-p1125] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Greene to Jacob Greene. The late Battle. The present situation of both Armies. The Rhode-Island Troops are raw, irregular and undisciplined, yet, bad as they are, they are under much better government than any Troops around Boston. [1775-06-28] Greene, Nathaniel, General. [S4-V2-p1126] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Inspection for the Town of Biddeford to the Massachusetts Congress. [1775-06-28] Massachusetts, Biddeford Committee of Inspection; Jordan, Richard; Hooper, Benjamin; Gillpatrick, Thomas. [S4-V2-p1127] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to the Provincial Congress, protesting against an Order sent to them by Gen. Ward. [1775-06-28] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; White, Benjamin. [S4-V2-p1127] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Congress to the Albany Committee. [Undated] . [S4-V2-p1454] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Inhabitants of Machias to the Massachusetts Congress, praying for a supply of Provisions, the situation of the times having prevented their procuring it. [1775-06-28] O'Brien, John. [S4-V2-p1128] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to General Folsom. [1775-06-28] New-Hampshire, Committee of Safety. [S4-V2-p1128] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Reverend Doctor Wheelock to the New-Hampshire Congress. [1775-06-28] Wheelock, Eleazer. [S4-V2-p1541] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Hague. Orders have been given by the States-General to their Admiral in the West-Indies to seize and destroy all Ammunition, Stores and Provisions, found in any Ships bound from any Dutch Settlements to any Port in the English-American Colonies. [1775-06-29] United Provinces, States-General. [S4-V2-p1128] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Charlestown to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. Charlestown has more the appearance of a Garrison-Town than a Mart for Trade. One Company keeps guard all day, and two every night. The Tories in Georgia are now no more: the Province is almost universally on the right side, and are about to choose Delegates to the Congress. [1775-06-29] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1129] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Free Thoughts on the present Times and Measures, addressed to the People of Virginia. [1775-06-29] Virginius (pseudo.). [S4-V2-p1129] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Chester County. [1775-06-29] Pennsylvania, Chester County Committee. [S4-V2-p1132] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Philadelphia Committee direct that no Sheep be killed under four years of age, in compliance with the Resolves of the Provincial Convention. [1775-06-29] Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p1132] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Continental Congress. [1775-06-29] New-York, Congress; Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. [S4-V2-p1132] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler to the Continental Congress. Some Oneida Indians, lately arrived at Albany, have expressed a wish that the Indians should be called together there. [1775-06-29] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1133] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler, at New-York, to Colonel Hinman, commanding at Ticonderoga. [1775-06-28] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1133] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler to the New-York Congress. Proposes the Troops from Connecticut shall encamp this morning, and requests Tents and other necessaries may be furnished immediate]y. [1775-06-29] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1134] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Charlotte County Committee. [1775-06-29] New-York, Charlotte County Committee; Campbell, Archibald. [S4-V2-p1134] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to Elisha Phelps, Commissary to the Connecticut Troops on Lake Champlain. Have made provision for passing to him all the Provisions and Stores heretofore sent for the Troops at the Posts on the Lake. [1775-06-29] Phelps, Elisha. [S4-V2-p1332] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Agents at Albany, directing them to deliver to Mr. Phelps, the Commissary appointed by Governour Trumbull, all the Provisions and Stores in their hands. [1775-06-29] New-York, Congress. [S4-V2-p1332] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Jacob Bayley to the New-York Congress. He has been chosen a Member of the Provincial Congress, but cannot attend, as they are apprehensive of an invasion from Canada. [1775-06-29] Bayley, Jacob. [S4-V2-p1134] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Association of the Inhabitants of Newtown, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, adopted on the 13th of February, and signed by the Inhabitants on the 12th of April, 1775. [1775-06-29] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1135] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Association of the Inhabitants of Newtown, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, adopted on the 13th of February, and signed by the Inhabitants on the 12th of April, 1775. [1775-04-12] Connecticut, Fairfield Public Meeting; Fairman, Richard; Botsford, John; Bennett, Abraham; Judson, David; Chandler, John; Botsford, Amos; Baldwin, Caleb, Jr.; Botsford, Gideon; Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Sherman, Ephraim; Northrup, Amos; Fairman, Ichabod; Bennett, Abraham, Jr.; Curtiss, David; Botsford, Jabez; Hubbel, Silas; Baldwin, Abel; Botsford, Elijah; Fairman, Henry; Botsford, Gideon, Jr.; Botsford, Abraham; Northrup, Jonathan; Gregory, Aaron; Botsford, Clement; Smith, Richard; Smith, Ebenezer; Curtiss, Matthew, Jr.; Dunning, Benjamin; Dunning, Eli; Dunning, Abijah; Dunning, Philo; Peck, Henry; Dunning, Jared; Brown, Samuel; Dunning, Gideon; Sanford, James; Bunnel, Job; Jackson, David; Jackson, Gershom; Jackson, Ephraim; Dunning, Silas; Jackson, David, Jr.; Fairman, Richard, Jr.; Northrup, Joshua; Northrup, Enos; Jackson, Daniel; Brooks, Thomas; Hatch, Joshua; Wheeler, Joseph; Little, Nathaniel; Brisco, Nathaniel; Basset, Joel; Smith, Amos; Burritt, Nathan; Smith, Joseph; Bennett, Thomas; Burritt, Eleazer; Cogswell, Asa; Fairchild, James; Wood, Henry; Terril, George; Kimberly, Fitch; Bassot, John; Wright, William; Beardslee, Josiah; Cada, Nathaniel; Gunn, Joseph; Baldwin, Matthew; Fairchild, Silas; Burritt, Amos. [S4-V2-p1135] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Fort George, near Ticonderoga, to a Gentleman in Hartford. It is generally believed that Carleton is making preparations to come against us. Guy Johnson is doing all he can to raise the Indians against us. [1775-06-29] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1135] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Preparations for defence at Williamsburgh, Virginia. [1775-06-30] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1135] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address of the Committee of Cumberland County, Virginia, to the Inhabitants of the County. [1775-06-30] Virginia, Cumberland County Committee; Carrington, George. [S4-V2-p1136] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from one of the Virginia Delegates, at Philadelphia, to a friend in Williamsburgh. [1775-06-30] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1137] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the New-York Congress, from their Delegates in the Continental Congress, urging them, by all means, to complete their levies of Men without delay, the honour as well as the interest of the Congress is much concerned in the success of this measure, Connecticut boasts of having raised their Men in ten days. [1775-06-30] New-York Delegates, Continental Congress; Livingston, Philip; Alsop, John; Jay, John; Floyd, William; Livingston, Robert, Jr.. [S4-V2-p1137] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler, at New-York, to the Continental Congress. In obedience to the Resolutions of Congress, he will repair without delay to Ticonderoga, and execute their wishes with the utmost expedition and secrecy. [1775-06-30] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1138] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler to the New-York Congress. Has just received Despatches containing matters of the utmost importance, and wishes to meet a small Committee of their body, to whom he will communicate such part of his orders as become the subject of their consideration. [1775-06-30] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1139] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Schuyler to Governour Trumbull. To enable him to carry into execution the orders of the Continental Congress, supplies of Money and Ammunition are indispensably necessary, he requests Connecticut will send him fifteen or twenty thousand Pounds of their Money, and all the Ammunition they can spare, for it cannot be had in New-York, even in the smallest quantity. [1775-06-30] Schuyler, Philip, Major-General. [S4-V2-p1139] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Capt. John Lamb to the New-York Congress. [1775-06-30] Lamb, John, Captain. [S4-V2-p1140] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Samuel Mott, at Fort George, to Governour Trumbull. Has been informed of the extraordinary ill conduct of Col. Arnold, the particulars of which have been sent by Col. Hinman. Requests that Captain Niles, of Norwich, a bold and able sea commander, may be commissioned to take command of one of the Vessels on the Lake. Guy Johnson is doing all in his power to stimulate the Indians against us. [1775-06-30] Mott, Samuel. [S4-V2-p1140] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Worcester County (Massachusetts Committee). [1775-06-30] Massachusetts, Worcester Committee of Correspondence. [S4-V2-p1140] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to the Continental Congress. Has received and accepts his appointment as a Major-General in the American Army. Hopes the appointments in Massachusetts, made by the Congress, of General Officers, may not have a tendency to create uneasiness, which ought, at this time, to be carefully avoided. [1775-06-30] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1140] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Ward to John Pigeon, Commissary-General. [1775-06-30] Ward, Artemas, General. [S4-V2-p1141] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Thomas to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. [1775-06-30] Thomas, John, General. [S4-V2-p1141] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Heath to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. Many of his Regiment are without Arms, requests they may be supplied. [1775-06-30] Heath, William, General. [S4-V2-p1141] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Safety for Massachusetts to the Provincial Congress. Desire to have a full knowledge of the emissions of Bills lately made, before they consider the further emission required by a Resolve of the Provincial Congress. [1775-06-30] Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; Palmer, Joseph. [S4-V2-p1141] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Massachusetts Committee of Suplies to the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety, requesting them to forward some Cannon they have. [1775-06-30] Massachusetts, Committee of Supplies; Cheever, David. [S4-V2-p1142] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Eulogium sacred to the memory of the late Maj. Gen. Warren, who fell, June 17, 1775, fighting against the Ministerial Army at Boston. [1775] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1142] [Document Details][Complete Volume]