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To the public
the spirit of the times renders it necessary for the inhabitants of this city to convene, in order effectually to avert the destructive consequences of the late base, inglorious conduct of our General Assembly ... to vote supplies to the troops -
To the respectable publick
Certain resolves having been proposed by the Committee of Correspondence, to a number of citizens assembled at the coffee-house yesterday, and rejected ... they proceeded to nominate a new committee for the purpose, and appointed us the subscribers on it -
Worcester June 13th. 1774
Gentlemen. Many persons in this county conceiving that an agreement not to purchase the goods which are or shall be imported before the 31st. of August next can answer no valuable end ... and as the committee of Boston in their last letter have informed us that they do not mean to dictate to us ... We are of the opinion, that the enclosed covenant is by no means inconsistent with the spirit or intention of the form sent out by them -
Whereas a great number of people have express'd a desire that the names of the addressers to the late Gov. Hutchinson, and protesters against the solemn league and covenant might be made publick, the following is a true list of the same, viz
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Whereas I have reason to apprehend that the government of Pennsylvania, in prosecution of their claim to Pittsburg and its dependencies, will endeavour to obstruct his Majesty's government thereof under my administration, by illegal and unwarrantable commitments of the officers I have appointed ... Given under my hand, and the seal of the colony, at Williamsburg, this 25th day of April, 1774, and in the 14th year of his Majesty's reign
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Tuesday, the 24th of May, 14 Geo. III. 1774
This House being deeply impressed with apprehension of the great dangers to be derived to British America, from the hostile invasion of the city of Boston, in our sister colony of Massachusetts Bay, whose commerce and harbour are on the 1st day of June next to be stopped by an armed force, deem it highly necessary that the said first day of June be set apart by the members of this House as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer -
Proceedings of the general Congress of delegates from the several British colonies in North-America, held in Philadelphia, September 1774
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The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish thus early purely to ease the impatience of the public
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The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish thus early purely to ease the impatience of our readers. Association, & c
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To the free-holders and free-men of the city, and county of New-York
Dear countrymen, Many and great are the privileges you enjoy under the happy British constitution -
To the respectable body of gentlemen nominated by the publick voice as a committee, for managing the affairs of the inhabitants of this city, in the present exigency of our publick concerns
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To the publick
In consequence of the unhappy disputes at present subsisting between Great-Britain and her colonies, many of the northern provinces have entered into resolutions on those matters, and an attempt has also been made to bring this province to enter into similar measures, which happily failed of success -
To the public
As the merchants of this city have nobly refused letting their vessels to the tools of government, for the base purpose of transporting troops and military stores to Boston ... it is therefore hoped that no pilot will be found so lost to all sense of duty to his country, as to assist in that detestable work -
To the freeholders and gentlemen, of Baltimore County
Gentlemen, On Tuesday last we received by (express) a letter from the Committee of Correspondence at Philadelphia -
Suffolk, ss. At the Superior Court, &c. August [blank] 1774
whereas the Honourable Peter Oliver, Esq ; chief justice of this court, stands charged and impeached of divers high crimes and misdemeanors, and more especially with bribery and corruption in his said office ... we hereby testify before God and the world, our sentiments in the premises, and refuse acting as grand jurors at this court ... Witness our hands -
By the Honorable Joseph Wanton, Esquire, governor, captain-general, and commander in chief, of and over the English colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations ... A proclamation
Whereas the General Assembly of the colony aforesaid ... voted and resolved, that Thursday, the thirtieth day of this instant June, be set apart as a day of fasting, prayer, & supplication ... Given under my hand, and the seal of the said colony, at Newport, this twentieth day of June ... one thousand, seven hundred and seventy-four -
At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Rhode Island, and Providence-Plantations ... at Providence ... on the first Monday in December
whereas the Hon. Stephen Hopkins, Esq ; and the Hon. Samuel Ward, Esq ; delegates for this colony, in the Continental Congress, held ... on the fifth day of September, A.D. 1774, this day made report of the proceedings ... It is voted and resolved, that the same be, and hereby is, accepted and approved -
The following is the account of the number of inhabitants in the colony, of Rhode-Island
taken between the 4th of May and the 14th of June, 1774, and ordered to be printed by the hon. General Assembly, among their public acts and orders -
To the public
the dispute that has lately arisen in this place, on the merit of Dr. Latham's practice in the small-pox, has been managed on the part of his advocates with so much indecent bitterness -
Committee chamber, December 6, 1774
the committee, taking into consideration the tenth article of the Association of the General Congress, do unanimously resolve, that the said article requires the opening of all packages of goods imported after the first day of December, and before the first of February -
To the worthy inhabitants of the city and county of New-York
Fellow countrymen, Your Committee of Fifty-one having laid before you their proceedings on Thursday evening, I should not have troubled you at this time, had not eleven of the committee made a formal resignation, and published an appeal to you in justification of their conduct -
Colony of Rhode-Island, &c. At a town-meeting held at Newport, the 12th day of January, 1774
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New-York
the following dialogue being conceived, in some measure, calculated to advance the cause of freedom, in the present critical situation of affairs, is for that purpose presented to the public -
New-Haven, March 11, 1774. At a meeting of the select-men in this town, on Monday last, the following petition, signed by more than two hundred of the inhabitants of the town, was presented to them
To the select-men of the town of New-Haven. Gentlemen, We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of New-Haven, considering the alarming situation this colony is involved in by laying claim to the Susquehannah lands, and extending their jurisdiction over the same