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Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Gentleman, at Bladensburg, Maryland, to his brother, in Glasgow. Virginia is raising a Company of Men in every County. Maryland has begun to raise Men in every County also. To the Northward they have large Bodies ready for the field. Regulation of prices of imported Goods  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Gentleman, at Red Stone, to Williamsburg. Wagetomica and five other Shawanese Towns on the Muskingum, destroyed in July, by four hundred Virginia Troops, under the command of Major M'Donald  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Gentleman, in London, to his Correspondent in New-York. Disputes of the New-York Committee published in all the London papers, and have been disadvantageous to the cause of the Colonies. The Ministry are waiting anxiously to hear the result of the Congress they still expect the Colonies will beg for mercy  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Gentleman, in London, to his Correspondent in Williamsburg. Policy of the Ministry to attack one Colony at a time. America has no friends in Great Britain. Nothing but an Association strictly observed and enforced, to stop Exports and Imports, will procure a repeal of the Acts  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Member of Parliament to Colonel Charles Lee  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Member of the Assembly of New Jersey. Meeting of a Committee at New Brunswick. Will do whatever may be generally agreed on. Have requested the Governour to convene the Assembly before the first of August  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Member of the Virginia Assembly, Williamsburg, to his Correspondent in London. Resentment in Virginia, on account of the War sent to Boston. It is the universal determination to stop the principal Exports to, and all the Imports from, Great Britain. The Assembly, now in session, will agree on measures to be adopted, before they adjourn  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Merchantile House at Yorkshire, in England, to a Gentleman in New-York. The Resolves of the Congress will have no effect in England. Parliament cannot take notice of them. Manufactures in England in a flourishing condition, and Trade scarcely ever so good before  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from a Virginia to the Members of Congress at Philadelphia. The Colonies have advanced from one extravagant claim to another. Their most zealous advocates are ashamed to plead a cause which all others condemn. Parliament has a right to Tax the Colonies, and cannot depend upon the uncertain mode of Requisition  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from an Officer at Boston, to his friend in Edinburgh. The Faction at Boston is very low. All ranks of People are heartily tired of disorder and as soon as the determination of Great Britain to despise their Resolves and Petitions, is known, all will be quiet  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from an Officer in the Army at Boston. As to the Colonists taking Arms to resist the Force of England, it is mere bullying. Any two Regiments here ought to be decimated, if they did not beat in the field the whole Force of the Massachusetts Province  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from an Officer in the Army, at Boston, to a Gentleman in Edinburgh. The Army is in high spirits, and the Town is quiet. The back settlements, in general, disapprove of the Non-Importation Resolves  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from the Boston Committee, in reply to one from sundry Gentlemen in New-York. Thanks for their unsolicited offer of assistance. Letters countermanding orders for Goods sent by a vessel yesterday for London. The friends of Government, in Boston, procuring signers to an Address to Governour Hutchinson, and are endeavouring to raise money to pay for the Tea  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from the Camp, on Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the Great Kenhawa, dated October 17th. Account of the Battle at that place, on the 10th  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Governour Penn. Directs him to desist from extending the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania up to the new Maryland line, during the minority of the Heir of Lord Baltimore  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter received at New-York from a Gentleman of Philadelphia. Some of the friends of Boston here are too warm, and wish to push all things into confusion. Our Letter, (of May 21,) moderate, yet warm and firm enough  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter received in Boston from Philadelphia. Boston need not expect general support from the other Colonies. In Pennsylvania they will find none  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter received in London from an Officer in Boston. It is believed, from certain circumstances, that General Gage means to strike some stroke of importance soon, which the Americans are little aware of  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter received in Philadelphia from London. Resolutions of Philadelphia, Maryland, and Virginia, esteemed very inoffensive, and as the mere ebullitions of a set of angry men. Mr. Hutchinson is much courted by the Administration. Americans, both at Court and in London, daily ridiculed. The Congress must agree not to purchase or use the Manufactures of Great Britain until the Acts are repealed, as the only means of preserving the Liberty of the Country  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter received in Philadelphia from a Gentleman in Boston. Closing the Port. Proposition to pay for the Tea. General Gage ordered the removal of the Province Money from Boston to Salem. Treasurer refused to comply  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter to General Gage, from Williamsburg, in Virginia  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter to Lord North. Dismissing Dr. Franklin from the Post Office one of the most fortunate events for America. The Americans will set up a Post Office of their own, and put an end to the precedent, so often referred to, for Taxing them ( Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter to Peyton Randolph, late President of the American Continental Congress, from an Inhabitant of Massachusetts, against the Proceedings of the Congress, and defending the conduct of General Gage  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letter to the Author of the Letters to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies in America  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letters from Fort Pitt. White Inhabitants killed by the Indians  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letters from Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, to a Gentleman in New-York. Further accounts of the seizure of the Powder and Cannon at Fort William and Mary  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letters from Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, to a Gentleman in New-York. Further accounts of the seizure of the Powder and Cannon at Fort William and Mary  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Letters from southern parts of North Carolina. Inhabitants there, recommend that Collections be set on foot throughout the Continent for relief of the most distressed in Boston  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  List of killed and wounded Virginians in the Battle at Point Pleasant, on the 10th of October,(Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Lord Dunmore arrived at Williamsburg, from his expedition against the Indians, having brought them to terms, and made a Treaty with them  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Meeting at Marblehead, in Massachusetts. Appointed a Committee to execute the Association and fixed a day for choosing Militia Officers  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Meeting at Oyster Bay in Queen's County, New-York, called to choose a Committee. The Meeting determined to be illegal, and adjourned without transacting any business  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Meeting of Freeholders in Boston. Instructions to Delegates in Provincial Congress  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Meeting of Mechanicks at Philadelphia, held on Thursday evening, the 9th  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Meeting of the General Committee, Charlestown, South Carolina. General Meeting of the Colony called, to consider of the steps proper to be taken in consequence of the late hostile Act of the British Parliament against Boston  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Mr. Goddard at Boston, with Letters from Towns to the Eastward, expressing their concurrence in the establishment of a Post Office, on constitutional principles, throughout the Continent. The removal of Dr. Franklin from the Post Office has added fresh spirit to the promoters of this salutary plan (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Mr. Goddard at Boston. He has received the greatest encouragement from all the Colonies through which he has passed. At a Meeting in Boston, it was determined to unite with the Southern Colonies in support of this measure for the recovery of American Liberty (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Mr. Goddard at New-York, with important despatches for all the Southern Colonies, the plan for establishing a Constitutional American Post Office having met with the greatest success in all the great Commercial Towns in the Northern Colonies (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Mr. Goddard at Salem, on the subject of establishing a Post Office independent of the unconstitutional Laws of a British Parliament (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Mr. Goddard's Plan for establishing an American Post Office was agitated at the Convention in Virginia, who considered it worthy the attention of the General Congress, and, as such, particularly recommended it to the Delegates from Virginia (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Mr. Revere  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Objections to the Proceedings at the Meeting at Annapolis, on the 24th  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  On the meeting of the Superiour Court at Boston, Chief Justice Peter Oliver on the Bench, the Jurors refuse to be sworn  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Opinions in London of the state of affairs in the Colonies. The faction in Boston composed of Smuggling Companies, Mechanicks, Merchants indebted in England, and those who are fascinated with the extravagant notion of Independency. Seditious Committees appointed to influence the other Colonies. From Letters and other intelligence, it is evident that no permanent or vigorous measures of resistance can be adopted to support the Boston Rebels  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Peace Talk from the Creek Indians sent to Augusta, Georgia. General Meeting of all the Warriors of the Creek Nation called. The Cherokees have engaged to join the Creeks in case of War  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  People of Philadelphia, except the Friends, suspend all business, nine-tenths shut up their houses. The Bells were rang muffled, and Vessels in the Port had their Colours half hoisted (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Petition of divers Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec, signed and transmitted to the Earl of Dartmouth, his Majesty's Secretary of State for America  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Political Observations, without order, addressed to the People of America  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Publick Meeting at Farmington, Connecticut. -- Liberty Pole erected. And Boston Port Bill burnt by the common hangman  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Queries addressed to the Committees of Observation, on the Pamphlet, 'A Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans'  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Queries from Ulster County (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Queries from Ulster County (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Queries proposed to the People of America  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Rector of Christ's Church, Philadelphia, acquaints the Publick that the Bells of that Church were not rang, on the 1st, with his knowledge or approbation, he specially directed there should be no observance of that day in any of the Churches under his care (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Reflections on appointing Delegates to the General Congress. Different modes of appointing examined. The appointment by Provincial Conventions recommended  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Reflections on the measures proper to be adopted by the Congress, and suggestions for the consideration of the Delegates  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Remarks on the preceding Letter (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Remarks upon the Proclamation (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Report from Fredericksburg  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Report from London, September 3, 1774  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Report from Williamsburg  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Report in Boston of arrival of Captain Perkins from Baltimore  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Sheep not permitted to be sent from New-York to the West Indies  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  State of Parties in England in relation to America, (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Tea, at Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, re-shipped by order of the Town  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Thanks to the Merchants of New-York for refusing to let their Vessels transport Troops and Ammunition to Boston  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Thanks to the Merchants of New-York, who assisted in providing Barracks for the Troops at Boston  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  The County Courts, in Virginia, will do no business previous to a Session of the General Assembly. At the next General Court there will be no Trials, except in Criminal Cases  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  The Deputy Postmasters General of North America alarmed at the progress making to establish a new Post Office (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  The King's birthday. Not a house illuminated at Charlestown, no demonstrations of joy (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  The Publication of Mr. Holt, referred to by the Committee (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  The Selectmen of Boston inform General Gage of the alarm of the People at his preparing to erect a Fortification on the Neck  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  The Subscription for establishing an American Post Office has been liberally patronized. Mr. Goddard will return homeward, rejoicing in the great success which has attended his endearours to rescue the channel of publick and private intelligence from the horrid fangs of Ministerial despotism (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  The report that the Constitutional Post Rider between Philadelphia and Baltimore, with a large sum of money entrusted to his care, had absconded, is untrue (Note)  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Timothy Paine, a Mandamus Counseller, compelled to resign  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce, concluded on the 20th of October, between Georgia and the Creek Indians  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  United Colonies extremely active and zealous in the common cause  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Williamsburg, July 28, 1774  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Wilmington, July 27th  ●  1774

Anonymous  ●  Writs for an election of a new Assembly ordered by the Governour and Council of Virginia  ●  1774

Appleton, Nathaniel  ●  Letter from Nathaniel Appleton to Josiah Quincy, Jun. It is the universal voice of the People, that they will sacredly observe the recommendations of the Grand Congress  ●  1774

Ashby, Benjamin  ●  Resolutions adopted at a Meeting of the Officers under the command of Lord Dunmore, convened at Fort Gower  ●  1774

Austin, Nicholas  ●  Concession of Nicholas Austin, to the Committee of Correspondence of Rochester, in New-Hampshire  ●  1774

Beckley, John; Virginia, Henrico County Committee  ●  Meeting of Henrico County, Virginia, Committee. The Resolutions of Congress to be considered by the Committee as the sole rule of their conduct, respecting their present engagements. Committee of Correspondence appointed  ●  1774

Beeler, Joseph; Smith, James; Pennsylvania Council  ●  Representation of the Commissioners and Assessors of Westmoreland County to Gov. Penn  ●  1774

Benezet, John; Smith, Jonathan  ●  Philadelphia Committee order the Association of the Butchers, in the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia, to be printed  ●  1774

Bissell, Hezekiah; Lothrop, Benjamin; Larrabee, Timothy; Backus, Ebenezer  ●  Representation of Hezekiah Bissell, Benjamin Lothrop, Timothy Larrabee, and Ebenezer Backus, to Governour Trumbull, of the treatment of Mr. Green  ●  1774

Blair, William; Selkrig, James; Wilson, Archibald; Greene, Jeremiah; Sparhawk, Samuel H.; Turill, Joseph; Roberts and Co.; Greenlaw, John; Clark, Benjamin; McAlphine, William; Snelling, Jonathan; Hall, James; Dickson, William; Winslow, John, Jr.; Lillie, Theophilus; Whitworth, Miles; McEwen, James; Codner, William; Silsy, Daniel; Cazneau, William; Forrest, James; Cox, Edward; Berry, John; Hirons, Richard; Thayer, Ziphion; Joy, John; Goldthwait, Joseph; Prince, Samuel; Simpson, Jonathan; Boutineau, James; Hatch, Nathaniel; Gay, Martin; Scott, Joseph; Minot, Samuel; Holmes Benjamin M McNiel, Archibald; Winslow, John; Winslow, Isaac, Jr.; Oliver, Thomas; Lloyd, Henry; Davis, Benjamin; Winslow, Isaac; Deblois, Lewis; Aylwin, Thomas; Bowes, William; Townsend, Gregory; Greene, Francis; Dumaresq, Philip; Gray, Harrison; Johonnot, Peter; Irving, George; Green, Joseph; Vassall, John; Coffin, Nathaniel; Perkins, James; White, John; Jarvis, Robert; Perry, William; McMasters J.; McMasters P.; Coffin, William; Stoddard, Simeon, Jr.; Powell, John; Laughton, Henry; Pond, Eliphalet; Goldthwait, M. B.; Hughes, Peter; Hughes, Samuel; Semple, John; Capen, Hopestill; King, Edward; Lyde, Byfield; Lyde, George; Phillips, A. F.; Greene, Rufus; Phipps, David; Smith, Richard; Spooner, George; Leonard, George; Borland, John; Loring, Joshua, Jr.; Jackson, William; Anderson, James; Mitchelson, David; Savage, Abraham; Asby, James; Inman, John; Coffin, John; Knight, Thomas; Greene, Benjamin, Jr.; Greene, David; Greene, Benjamin; Williams, Henry H.; Warden, James; Coffin, Nathaniel, Jr.; Gardiner, Sylvester; Copley, John S.; Foster, Edward; Barrell, Colbourn; Greenwood, Nathaniel; Burton, William; Timmins, John; Taylor, William; Brinley, Thomas; Gray, Harrison, Jr.; Taylor, John; Deblois, Gilbert; Winslow, Joshua; Hubbard, Daniel; Tarbett, Hugh; Lyddel, Henry; Cary, Nathaniel; Brinley, George; Lechmere, Richard; Erving, John, Jr.; Gray, Thomas; Bethune, George; Apthhorp, Thomas; Goldthwait, Ezekiel; Gridley, Benjamin; Atkinson, John; Bridgham, Ebenezer; Gore, John; Paddock, Adino  ●  Address of Merchants and Traders of the Town of Boston, presented to Governour Hutchinson  ●  1774

Bollan, William  ●  Letter from Mr. Bollan to the Committee Continued. Lord North's Policy in Regard to the Colonies. Interview with Lord Camden  ●  1774

Bollan, William  ●  Letter from Mr. Bollan to the Committee. Has Prepared His Second Petition. Sir Joseph Mawbey Took it to Present to the House. Objections of the Speaker and Clerk. The Presentation Deferred  ●  1774

Bollan, William  ●  Letter from Mr. Bollan to the Committee. His Petition Presented by Sir Joseph Mawbey. The Right of Parliament to Tax the Americans Denied by Lord Camden  ●  1774

Bollan, William  ●  Letter from Mr. Bollan to the Committee. Refused a Hearing by the House, on His Petition. The Port Bill Read a Second Time. The Lord Mayor and Sir Joseph Mawbey Offer to Present Another Petition  ●  1774

Bollan, William  ●  Letter from Mr. Bollan to the Committee. Resumes his account of the proceedings on the Port Bill. His second Petition to the House of Commons presented by Alderman Crosby. Large majority against receiving it. The Bill passed by the House of Commons. Interview with Lord Temple. The Earl of Stair the first who spoke in favour of the Colonies in the House of Lords. Lord Stair refers him to the Duke of Richmond to present his Petition. The Duke of Richmond refers him to the Earl of Dartmouth. Interview with the Earl of Dartmouth. Petition presented by Lord Stair. Mr. Bollan heard at the Bar of the House, in support of his Petition. The Lords pass the Bill  ●  1774

Bollan, William  ●  Letter from Mr. Bollan, Agent, to the Hon. John Erving, and Others, Committee of the Council of Massachusetts, The King's Message of March 7, The Publication of His Late Petition to the King, Prepares a Petititon for the House of Commons, General Conway and Sir George Savile Decline Presenting It, The Lord Mayor Consents to Present It  ●  1774

Bollan, William  ●  Letter from Sir Bollan to the Committee. After various difficulties his Petition to the House of Lords was presented, and he was called in and heard in support of it. General Gage appointed Governour of Massachusetts Bay  ●  1774

Bowes, Timothy; Maryland, St. Mary's County General Committee  ●  Meeting of Gentlemen, Freeholders, and others of St. Mary's County, Maryland. Committees of Observation and Correspondence, and Delegates to the Convention, appointed  ●  1774

Brasher, Abraham; Anthony, Theophilus; Van Dyck, Francis; Platt, Jeremiah; Duyckinck, Christopher; New-York, Committee of Correspondence  ●  In answer to this Reply, the Committee, at Mr. Marriner's, agree to support the nominated Delegates  ●  1774

Brasher, Abraham; Anthony, Theophilus; Van Dyck, Francis; Platt, Jeremiah; Duyckinck, Christopher; New-York, Committee of Correspondence  ●  Note from the Committee, at Mr. Marriner's, to the Delegates nominated, desiring a pledge that they will support a Non-Importation Agreement in the Congress, until the American Grievances are redressed  ●  1774

Brattle  ●  Letter from General Brattle, at Cambridge, to General Gage. Military preparations in the Province. Minute Companies. Medford Powder removed from the Arsenal  ●  1774

Brewton, Miles  ●  Letter from Miles Brewton, Charlestown, South Carolina, to Josiah Quincy, Jun. Massachusetts will not fall for want of friends, if Boston does but persevere, her sisters will work out her salvation without the Musket. A Sloop load of Rice sent to Boston, and will soon send more  ●  1774