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New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter from Mr. Low, Chairman, to Philadelphia Committee  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter from the Committee of New-York to the Committee of Correspondence in Boston  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter from the Committee to Boston Committee of Correspondence. In their former Letter did not propose a suspension of Trade. Left that and every other resolution for the discussion of the proposed General Congress -- adhering to that measure as most conducive to promote the grand system of politicks we all have in view. Ready to meet at any time and place that may be appointed, giving sufficient time for Deputies as far south as the Carolinas to assemble  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter from the Committee to the Supervisors of the Counties  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter from the New-York Committee to Bernard Lintot. The hints he has furnished very proper for the consideration of a General Congress of Deputies from the different Colonies, what can or will be done, must be submittal to the wisdom of their united Councils  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter from the New-York Committee to the Philadelphia Committee  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter received from Charles Thomson, Philadelphia, in behalf of the several Congregations in that city, dated May 29 Copies of Mr. Thomson's Letter furnished to the Clergymen of New-York Letter from Isaac Low, Chairman, to Charles Thomson  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter to Daniel Dunscomb, Chairman of the Committee of Mechanicks. Requests a Conference with that Committee on the appointment of Committees of Inspection  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter to Daniel Dunscomb, Chairman of the Committee of Mechanicks. Requests a Conference with that Committee on the appointment of Committees of Inspection  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Low, Isaac  ●  Letter to the Committee of Connecticut -- Approve of the Congress, chosen to speak the sentiments, and to pledge themselves for the conduct of the Colonies they represent  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; McDougall, Alexander  ●  Resolutions adopted by the Meeting in the Fields, referred to by Mr. Thurman. 1. That Boston is suffering in the common cause of the Colonies. 2. An invasion of the rights of one Colony is an attack upon the liberties of all. 3. The shutting up an American Port, to exact a submission to Parliamentary Taxation, is unconstitutional. 4. Suspension of Trade with Great Britain till the Boston Act is repealed, will save America. 5. Delegates from New-York to the General Congress instructed to unite in a Non-Importation Agreement. 6. The Meeting will support every measure of the Congress for securing the objects mentioned in these Resolutions. 7. Provincial Convention recommended to choose Deputies to the Congress. 8. That Subscriptions be immediately set on foot for the relief of the Poor of Boston. 9. The City Committee instructed to carry these Resolutions into execution  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; McDougall, Alexander  ●  Resolutions adopted by the Meeting in the Fields, referred to by Mr. Thurman. 1. That Boston is suffering in the common cause of the Colonies. 2. An invasion of the rights of one Colony is an attack upon the liberties of all. 3. The shutting up an American Port, to exact a submission to Parliamentary Taxation, is unconstitutional. 4. Suspension of Trade with Great Britain till the Boston Act is repealed, will save America. 5. Delegates from New-York to the General Congress instructed to unite in a Non-Importation Agreement. 6. The Meeting will support every measure of the Congress for securing the objects mentioned in these Resolutions. 7. Provincial Convention recommended to choose Deputies to the Congress. 8. That Subscriptions be immediately set on foot for the relief of the Poor of Boston. 9. The City Committee instructed to carry these Resolutions into execution  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Remsen, Henry  ●  Conduct of the persons complained of in the Representation, condemned  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Correspondence; Remsen, Henry  ●  Meeting of Importers called to consider advances upon Goods imported  ●  1774

New-York, Committee of Mechanics; New-York, Committee of Correspondence  ●  Election of new Committee of Sixty ordered, on the 22d instant  ●  1774

New-York, Easthampton Inhabitants; Miller, Burnet  ●  Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of East Hampton, in the County of Suffolk, New-York  ●  1774

New-York, General Assembly  ●  Appointment of the Committee by the Assembly of New-York (Note)  ●  1774

New-York, Huntington Town Meeting  ●  General Town Meeting of the Inhabitants of Huntington, in Suffolk County, New-York  ●  1774

New-York, Importers; Remsen, Henry  ●  Importers agree not to put unreasonable advances on Goods, from the apprehension of a Non-Importation, will discourage all Engrossers, and will decline dealing with all who attempt to defeat their Resolutions  ●  1774

New-York, Importers; Remsen, Henry  ●  Importers agree not to put unreasonable advances on Goods, from the apprehension of a Non-Importation, will discourage all Engrossers, and will decline dealing with all who attempt to defeat their Resolutions  ●  1774

New-York, Inhabitants  ●  Address to the Inhabitants of North America, in general, and those of the Province of New-York, in particular, in defence of the Congress  ●  1774

New-York, Jamaica Assembly  ●  Humble Petition and Memorial of the Assembly of Jamaica, to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, in Council  ●  1774

New-York, Jamaica Town Meeting  ●  Meeting of Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Jamaica, in Queen's County, New-York. Approve the Resolutions of the Congress. Committee of Correspondence and Observation appointed  ●  1774

New-York, New-York Committee of Mechanics; Dunscomb, Daniel  ●  Address of the Committee of Mechanicks, of New-York, to the Delegates who represented the City in the General Congress  ●  1774

New-York, New-York Freeholders  ●  Committee of Sixty Persons elected in New-York, for the purposes mentioned in the Association of Congress  ●  1774

New-York, New-York Mechanicks Committee; Warren, John; Massachusetts, Boston Mechanicks Committee; Hardenbrook, Abel, Jr.  ●  Letter from the Committee of Mechanicks of Boston, dated September 8th, to the Committee of Mechanicks of New-York Resolutions of the Committee of Mechanicks of New-York, on receiving the foregoing Letter  ●  1774

New-York, Orangetown Freeholders  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Orange Town, in the Province of New-York  ●  1774

New-York, Palatine District Inhabitants  ●  Resolutions adopted by the Inhabitants of Palatine District, Tryon County, New-York  ●  1774

New-York, Poughkeepsie Freeholders; Platt, Zephaniah; Davis, John  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Poughkeepsie Precinct, in Dutchess County, New-York. Refuse to comply with the request of the New-York Committee of Correspondence, to elect Delegates  ●  1774

New-York, Queen's County Freeholders  ●  Meeting of Freeholders of Newtown, in Queen's County, New-York. Committee of Observation appointed  ●  1774

New-York, Richmond County Freeholders; Peachey, Leroy  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and Freemen of the County of Richmond, in Virginia  ●  1774

New-York, Rye Freeholders; Gidney, Isaac; Irwin, Daniel; Halsted, Silemon; Wetmore, Abraham; Park, Roger; Budd, James; Collum, John; Kniffen, Roger; Kniffen, Thomas; Bird, Henry; Hawkins, John; Merrit, Gilbert; Merrit, Robert; Merrit, Andrew; Carhart, John; Merrit, Roger; Tilford, Archibald; Seaman, Israel; Anderson, Isaac; Scaman, Adam; Hall, William; Willis, John; Morrel, Rievers; Bush, Abraham, Captain; Sherwood, Nehemiah; Miller, Abraham; Lyon, Andrew; Crooker, William; Kniffen, Jonathan; Jameson, James; Carhart, Andrew; Buflot, John; Brown, Thomas; Purdy, Seth; Thaell, Gilbert; Thaell, Gilbert, Jr.; Park, Disbury; Brown, Isaac; Merrit, Joseph, Jr.; Horton, James, Major; Florence, Peter; Gedney, Jonathan; Sniffin, Nathaniel; Armstrong, William; Guion, John; Gidney, Solomon; Hains, James; Hains, Elijah; Hains, Bartholomew; Thaell, Thomas; Affrey, John; Hains, Gilbert; Lary, Dennis; Purdy, Hack.; Purdy, Joshua; Purdy, Roger; Thaell, Charles; Wetmore, James; Brundige, Gilbert; Kniffen, John; Brown, William; Clark, Joseph; Park, John; Purdy, Joseph; Gedney, James; Gedney, Joshua; Budd, Jonathan; Purdy, James; Brown, Ebenezer; Brown, Ebenezer, Jr.; Adee, John; Slater, John; Slater, Henry; Purdy, Nathaniel; Kniffen, Benjamin; Kniffen, Andrew; Wilson, Joseph; Wilson, Nehemiah; Wilson, Thomas; Wilson, Benjamin; Morris, Gilbert, Jr.; Wetmore, Timothy; Hart, James  ●  Declaration of Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of Rye, in West-Chester County, New-York. They have not been concerned in any Resolutions entered into in regard to the disputes with the Mother Country. Disapprove of the hot and furious proceedings, in consequence of the disputes, and declare they will live and die peaceable Subjects of George the Third  ●  1774

New-York, Rye Freeholders; Haviland, Ebenezer  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Township of Rye, in West-Chester County, New-York.  ●  1774

New-York, South-Haven Inhabitants; Smith, William  ●  Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Parish of South-Haven, in the County of Suffolk, New-York  ●  1774

New-York, Westchester Freeholders; Ferris, James  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Borough Town of West-Chester, in New-York  ●  1774

Newton, Thomas, Jr.; Hutchings, Joseph; Loyall, Paul; Love, Alexander; Inglis, Samuel; Greenwood, John; Skinner, Alexander; Harvey, William; Jamieson, Neil  ●  Letter from the Norfolk, Virginia, Committee, to the Committee at Charlestown, South Carolina.The time has come when the closest union is necessary. The Boston Port Bill is an attack upon the liberties of us all. We look to Charlestown as among those to take the lead in the general estabtishment of the rights of the Colonies. Fear Boston will sink under the weight of their misfortunes. Approve of the expediency of a Congress. If, after all, the India Company must be reimbursed, every freeman will cheerfully join in the general expense  ●  1774

Norfolk Intelligencer  ●  Remarks on Governor Johnstone's Speech in the House of Commons  ●  1774

North, Frederick, Lord; Townshend, Thomas; Seymour, Francis, Lord Beauchamp, Marquis of Hertford; Cornwall, Charles Wolfran; Legge, William, Earl of Dartmouth  ●  Copy of a Minute of the Treasury Board, (enclosed in the foregoing Letter.) Instructions to the Officers of the Customs, on removing the Port from Boston to Salem  ●  1774

North-Carolina, Convention  ●  Allegiance is due to the King of Great Britain, as the rightful Sovereign of his Province, We claim no more than the rights of Englishmen, and it is our duty to maintain those rights, To be taxed without our own consent, is a gross violation of the Grand Charter of our Liberties, As the British Subjects in North America cannot be represented in Parliament, any Act of Parliament to Tax them is illegal, Duties imposed by Act of Parliament for raising a Revenue, illegal and oppressive, The cause in which the Inhabitants of Massachusetts now suffer, is the cause of every honest American, The Boston Port Act is a cruel infringement of the rights and privileges of the People of Boston, The Act of Parliament for regulating the Police of Massachusetts, is an infringement of the Charter of that Province, Trial by Juries of the vicinity, is the only lawful Inquest that can pass upon the life of a British Subject, No British or East India Goods permitted to be imported after the first of January, 1775. No Slaves to be imported after the first of November next, and no East India Tea to be used after the 10th of September next, No Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, or any other article, to be exported to Great Britain after the first of October, 1775, unless American Grievances are redressed before that time, Venders of Merchandise are not to raise the prices of their Goods in consequence of their Resolves for Non-Importation, The People of North Carolina will break off all Trade with any Colony on the Continent, which shall refuse to adopt and carry into execution such general plan as mya be agreed to in the Continental Congress, Deputies to the Congress appointed, The attempts made by the Minister upon the Town of Boston, a prelude to a general attack upon the rights of the other Colonies, Committees to be appointed in the several Counties, to see that the Resolutions of this Convention are properly observed, Instructions to the Deputies appointed to meet in General Congress on the part of North Carolina, Proceedings signed by the Members of the Convention  ●  1774

North-Carolina, Convention  ●  Letters from the Committees in the other Colonies, with the Answers, presented by Mr. Hewes, and considered by the Convention, Three Delegates to General Congress to be appointed  ●  1774

North-Carolina, Convention  ●  List of the Delegates to the Convention  ●  1774

North-Carolina, Edenton Ladies  ●  Association signed by the Ladies of Edenton, in North Carolina  ●  1774

North-Carolina, Privy Council  ●  Privy Council  ●  1774

North-Carolina, Wilmington Inhabitants  ●  Circular Letter from the Wilmington Committee to the Freeholders of the several Counties of the Province of North Carolina  ●  1774

North-Carolina, Wilmington Inhabitants  ●  General Meeting of the Inhabitants of the District of Wilmington, in the Province of North Carolina  ●  1774

Oliver, John, Bishop of Quebec; Grave, H. F.; De Glapion, Louis Aug.; Crespel, Emanuel  ●  Address of the Clergy to Guy Carleton, Governour of Quebeck  ●  1774

Oliver, Thomas  ●  Mr. Oliver's statement of the circumstances under which he resigned  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Instructions to the Commissioners  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to Arthur St. Clair. Measures should be taken to prevent the removal of the White Inhabitants from the Frontiers, and to induce those who have gone to return. Has convened the Assembly, who will adopt measures to afford effectual relief in the mean time he will send further supplies of Ammunition  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to Governour Eden. Mr. Harford's Guardians have refused to give any instructions on the subject of the Boundary run and marked by the Commissioners he will, therefore, issue a Proclamation himself extending the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to Lord Dunmore. Danger of a general Indian War, unless Pennsylvania and Virginia prevent further progress of hostilities. Conduct of Doctor Connolly, his Military operations dangerous to the peace of the Colonies in general. Hopes Lord Dunmore does not encourage Connolly in the outrages laid to his charge  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to Lord Dunmore. Informs him of the appointment of the Commissioners, and expresses his hopes that tranquillity may be restored between the Governments  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to Richard Lee. Has made official notification of the lines run by Mason and Dixon: and the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania will be extended to those lines  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. A general disposition every where to adhere to the Resolutions of the Congress, In Philadelphia the Committees have undertaken to regulate the disposition of all British Goods imported since the first of December  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. An Express despatched to Philadelphia, from Boston, with a proposal to stop all Trade with Great Britain. In consequence of this a Meeting was held, where the matter was considered and debated. It was resolved to petition the Governour to convene the General Assembly on the occasion. Should so affrontive an application be made, will treat it as it deserves  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. Philadelphia and several of the Counties have appointed Committees to enforce the Association  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. The Congress is sitting, but as they have agreed to keep their Proceedings secret, he can furnish no account but what is found in the Newspapers  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. The Congress met this morning. The determination to oppose the Boston Acts, and the power of Parliament to Tax America, universal throughout the Colonies there is, however, great diversity of opinions as to the proper modes of opposition  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. The Resolutions of the Assembly rather a check, than an encouragement, to the Proceedings of the Convention  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn, Philadelphia, to Sir William Johnson. Requests his interposition and influence to induce the Six Nations to become mediators between Pennsylvania and the Shawanese and Delawares  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from Governour Penn, Philadelphia, to the Earl of Dartmouth. Temper of the People very warm. They consider Boston as suffering in the common cause  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Governour Penn. The appointment of Deputies, by the different Colonies, to meet in General Congress, has given the King great concern. An humble representation to the King from each Colony would have greater weight than one from the Congress  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Penn's Message to the Assembly on the Indian Intelligence  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania  ●  Proclamation of Governour Penn. Inhabitants and Magistrates of the contry west of Laurel Hill required to pay due obedience to the Laws of Pennsylvania, without the least regard to the Proclamation of Lord Dunmore  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Message from the Governour. Recommends keeping the Rangers a longer time in Service  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Message from the Governour. State of Indian affairs  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Message from the Governour. The Indian Disturbances not vet at an end. The Governour of Virginia is still prosecuting an Expedition against the Shawanese. The Troops on the Frontiers should be continued in pay  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Council  ●  Answer of the Governour. Does not think it expedient or consistent with his duty  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Council  ●  Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth. Explanation of his motives for issuing the Proclamation for extending the jurisdiction  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania; Shippen, Joseph, Jr.; Pennsylvania Council  ●  Proclamation of Governour Penn, establishing the Lines of Jurisdiction between the Province of Maryland and the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware  ●  1774

Penn, John, Lieutenant Governour of Pennsylvania; Shippen, Joseph, Jr.; Pennsylvania Council  ●  Proclamation of Governour Penn, requiring Magistrates and others to desist from exercising jurisdiction beyond those places where it has been heretofore exercised, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known in the premises  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Adjourn to the 5th of December  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Adjourned to Monday, the 19th September  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Assembly, convened by the Governour, met this day  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Committee of Correspondence lay before the House Letters from Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, and Virginia  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Deputies to the Congress, to meet on the 10th of May next, appointed, Committee to prepare Instructions to the Deputies appointed  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Further considered, and unanimously approved  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Governour has no business to lay before the House  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Governour's Message considered  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Instructions to the Delegates appointed to attend the Congress  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Instructions to the Deputies considered, and the further consideration postponed to the next Session, Adjourned to the 20th of February next  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  John Dickinson added to the Deputies from Pennsylvania to the General Congress, now sitting, Entertainment to be provided for the Members of the Congress, on Thursday next  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Letter from Dr. Franklin, dated London, May 7, laid before the House  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Letter to the Speakers of the several Assemblies of the Colonies  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Letters from Benjamin Franklin, with some papers on publick affairs, communicated to the House by the Speaker Payment of the Rangers raised by the Magistrates of Westmoreland County, authorized  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Letters from Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, and Virginia, considered in Committee of the Whole Resolution, that there is an absolute necessity for a General Congress, to consult together on the state of the Colonies, unanimously adopted Delegates to the Congress appointed Committee to prepare Instructions for the Delegates  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Letters to be considered on the 21st  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  New Assembly meets, List of Members. Edward Biddle chosen Speaker, Approved by the Governour  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  One hundred Rangers to be kept in pay until the 14th of October  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Resolutions of the Congress considered  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  The Assembly meets  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  The Assembly met. Pursuant to their adjournment, on the 23d of July  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  The Convention now sitting, may be admitted, to hear the debates of the House, on that day Petition from Northumberland County  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  The Convention waited on the House, and submitted their Resolves and Instructions  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  The Rangers to be kept in Pay until the first of November, Answer to the Governour's Message  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  The Treasurer ordered to pay the Overseers of the Poor of Philadelphia, one hundred Pounds for the support of the French Neutrals  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly  ●  Thursday, December 22, 1774  ●  1774

Pennsylvania Assembly; Biddle, Edward  ●  Answer to the Governour's Message. The House does not think expedient to repair the Barracks  ●  1774