American Archives

Brown, Nicholas  ●  Town Meeting at Providence, in Rhode island. Committee of Correspondence appointed  ●  1774

Brutus (pseudo.)  ●  Account of all the Proceedings in New-York, in relation to the Tea  ●  1774

Brutus (pseudo.)  ●  Address to the People of Halifax County, in Virginia  ●  1774

Buckley, Nathan; Connecticut, Fairfield Committee  ●  Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Fairfield, in Connecticut. Approve the Association, and appoint Committee of Observation. Committee to attend a County Congress, and a Committee of Correspondence, appointed  ●  1774

Bull, John, The Cosh (pseudo.); Zeisburger, David  ●  Letter from the Cosh, alias John Bull. Three Cherokees have killed a trader. Mingoes killed by Virginians under Cresap, at the mouth of Yellow Creek. The day following they killed a Shawanese and a Delaware. Same party killed a Shawanese woman, and a Shawanese Chief, soon after fled, and left the settlers victims to the Indians. Indian Council at Woaketameka -- Delaware Chief informed the Shawanese and Mingoes that the Delawares would not assist them  ●  1774

Bull, William, II, Lieutenant Governour of South-Carolina  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth  ●  1774

Bull, William, II, Lieutenant Governour of South-Carolina  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth  ●  1774

Bull, William, II, Lieutenant Governour of South-Carolina  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth. An universal spirit of jealousy is raised against Great Britain. Exemption from Taxation is claimed, but by their own Representatives. This spirit of opposition to Taxation so violent and universal, that it will not be soon or easily appeased  ●  1774

Bull, William, II, Lieutenant Governour of South-Carolina  ●  Proclamation of Lieutenant Governour Bull. Trade opened with the Creek and Cherokee Indians. Revokes all Indian Trade Licenses, and requires new ones to be taken out  ●  1774

Burke, Edmund  ●  Letter to Lord North, attributed to Edmund Burke. The rights of the Crown, and the rights of the Colonies, under various Charters and Grants  ●  1774

Burke, Edmund  ●  Speech of Edmund Burke, on offering himself a Candidate to represent the City of Bristol in Parliament  ●  1774

Burr, Thaddeus  ●  Letter from Thaddeus Burr, in Boston, to Governour Trumbull  ●  1774

Butler, Zebulon; Sluman, Joseph; Connecticut, General Assembly  ●  Memorial of Zebulon Butler and Joseph Sluman, Agents for the Town of Westmoreland  ●  1774

Campbell, John; Conolly, John  ●  Connolly will be at Pittsburgh till the middle of June to dispose of lots in a new Town, to be laid out, at the Falls of the Ohio (Note)  ●  1774

Canada, Farmers  ●  Instructions to the English Gentlemen of the Committee of Montreal, from the Canadian Farmers  ●  1774

Canada, Montreal General Meeting  ●  General Meeting of the English Inhabitants of Montreal  ●  1774

Canada, Quebeck Inhabitants  ●  Address of his Majesty's Subjects, in the City of Quebeck, to Governour Carleton  ●  1774

Canada, Quebeck Inhabitants  ●  Memorial of the Freeholders, Merchants, Planters, and others, his Majesty's ancient and loyal Subjects, now in the Province of Quebec, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State  ●  1774

Canada, Quebeck Inhabitants  ●  The most humble Petition of his Majesty's ancient and loyal Subjects, Freeholders, Merchants, and Planters, in the Province of Quebec, in North America to the King  ●  1774

Candour (pseudo.)  ●  Questions submitted to the consideration of the Committee for Anne Arundel County (Note)  ●  1774

Cannon, John; Betts, Thaddeus; German, Samuel  ●  Letter from James Lockwood, Wallingford, Connecticut, Forwarded to Norwalk  ●  1774

Chauncy, Charles  ●  Letter from Doctor Chauncy to Josiah Quincy, Jun., London. The Colonies are united in their resolution to defend their Liberties. All wish for a restoration of harmony, and dread a bloody conflict yet this they will universally go into, rather than submit to the tyrannical measures imposed on them  ●  1774

Clymer, George  ●  Letter from George Clymer, Philadelphia, to Josiah Quincy, Jun. New-York and Pennsylvania object to the suspension of Trade proposed by Boston. Pennsylvania appears determined on the Congress. General Subscription opened for relief of Boston  ●  1774

Cochran, John, Captain  ●  Letter from Captain Cochran, Commander of Fort William and Mary, to Governour Wentworth. Informs him of the storming of the Fort, and the seizure and removal of the Powder  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. Destruction of Tea at New-York  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. Proceedings in New-York on the Resolutions of Congress. Dispute between the smugglers and fair traders will probably defeat the Association. Men opposed to the Congress on the Committee, they at present support the measures of the Congress, to prevent dangerous men from taking the lead  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. Several of the Counties in the Province refused to unite with the New-York Committee in sending Delegates to the Congress. Almost the whole of the Inhabitants of the Counties wish for moderate measures. At a meeting held last week the conduct of the persons who attempted to prevent the Merchants from sending Supplies to Boston, was highly disapproved  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. The Congress broke up last week. Their measures do not meet with applause in New-York on the contrary, the City is rather dissatisfied. The Merchants dislike the Non-Importation, and the Farmers will not bear the Non-Exportation. A great majority in the Province disapprove of the dangerous measures of the New England Governments  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. The Deputies from New-York, to the General Congress, moderate men. Though great pains have been taken in the several Colonies to induce the People to enter into Resolves, they have succeeded only in Suffolk County  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth. The populace are now directed by men of property, and the former demagogues have lost their influence. Men now speak in favour of Government with greater freedom than for years past  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth: After a continual struggle of many weeks in the New-York Committee, they have carried the nomination of Deputies to the Congress. These transactions are dangerous and illegal, but cannot be prevented. The Province every where, except in the City of New-York, perfectly quiet  ●  1774

Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant Governour of New-York  ●  Letter from Lieutenant Governour Colden, New-York, to the Earl of Dartmouth. At the time the Boston Port Bill was received in New-York, the men who called themselves the Committee, were, many of them, of the lower rank, and all the warmest zealots of those called the Sons of Liberty. The principal Inhabitants, at a meeting held after the Port Act was published, dissolved this Committee and appointed a new one, of the prudent people of the city. No Resolutions have yet been adopted by this Colony  ●  1774

Common Council of the City of London; House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain  ●  Petition of the Common Council of the City of London, Against the Bill, Presented at the Bar of the House, by the Sheriffs of the City  ●  1774

Connecticut, Bolton Committee of Correspondence; Warner, Ichabod; Fellows, Isaac; Talcott, Benjamin, Jr.; Carver, Samuel, Jr.  ●  Statement of Mr. Peters's affair, by the Bolton  ●  1774

Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence  ●  Delegates to the General Congress of Commissioners of the English American Colonies, appointed by the Committee of Correspondence of Connecticut  ●  1774

Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence; Deane, Silas  ●  Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut to the Committee of Correspondence for Boston. The Assembly at their session, which closed this day, came to Resolutions relative to their rights and privileges. Resolves of Colonies will have more weight than those of the Merchants of separate Towns, and measures recommended by the whole united Colonies will have still greater weight and influence  ●  1774

Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence; Deane, Silas  ●  Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut to the New-York Committee, enclosing a copy of the preceding Letter, which they have also sent to Rhode-Island and New-Hampshire  ●  1774

Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence; New-York, Committee of Correspondence  ●  Copy of a Letter from the Connecticut Committee to the Boston Committee, enclosed in the preceding Letter to New-York. A Congress absolutely necessary -- Should meet by the first week in August -- New-York a convenient place, but prefer Fairfield or Norwalk  ●  1774

Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence; New-York, Committee of Correspondence  ●  Letter received from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut, dated June 4  ●  1774

Connecticut, Danbury Inhabitants  ●  Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Danbury, in Connecticut. Resolutions to support the Congress. Committee of Observation appointed. The Inhabitants requested to contribute liberally, Money or Provisions for Boston Sufferers  ●  1774

Connecticut, General Assembly  ●  Instructions and Regulations to the Overseers appointed by the Assembly for the Mohegan Indians.  ●  1774

Connecticut, General Assembly  ●  Meeting of the General Assembly of the English Colony of Connecticut, Towns in the Colour ordered to provide double the quantity of Powder, Balls, and Flints, they were before obliged by Law to provide, Cannon at New-London to be mounted, and kept fit for service, with a proper supply of Powder and Balls. Fifteen thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit, to be issued, Taxes levied on the Polls and rateable Estates in the Colony  ●  1774

Connecticut, General Assocation of Congregational Ministers; Throop, Benjamin  ●  Letter from the General Association of Congregational Ministers in Connecticut to the Clergymen in Boston  ●  1774

Connecticut, House of Representatives  ●  Resolutions adopted by the House of Representatives of the English Colony of Connecticut 1. The King of Great Britain recognised as their lawful Sovereign 2. The Inhabitants of the Colony have all the rights and privileges of Subjects born within the Realm of England 3. The Assembly of the Colony the only lawful Representatives thereof 4. It is the right of the Inhabitants of the Colony to be governed only by their own Assembly, in Taxing and Internal Police 5. Admiralty Courts, with extraordinary powers, destructive of the rights of the People of the Colony 6. Carrying Persons beyond the Sea, for Trial, unconstitutional, and subversive of the rights of the Colony 7. A Port can only be shut up by the Legislature of the Colony in which it is situated 8. Closing the Port of Boston, by Act of Parliament, inconsistent with the rights and liberties of the Colonies in America 9. Whenever his Majesty's service shall require the aid of this Colony, it will be granted 10. The well-being and security of the Colony depends on its connection with Great Britain 11. It is our duty, by all lawful means, to defend and preserve our rights and liberties  ●  1774

Connecticut, Norwich Inhabitants; Huntington, Jabez; Huntington, Benjamin  ●  Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Norwich, in the Colony of Connecticut, legally warned and convened  ●  1774

Connecticut, Stamford Inhabitants; Jarvis, S.  ●  Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Stamford, in Connecticut  ●  1774

Connecticut, Windham Town Meeting  ●  Extract from the Proceedings of the Town of Windham, in Connecticut. Addresses to Governour Hutchinson, an insult to the Town of Boston  ●  1774

Connolly, John; Six Nations Representatives  ●  Conference, at Colonel Croghan's, between several Chiefs and Captain Connolly, and others  ●  1774

Connolly, John; Six Nations Representatives; Guyasutha (Six Nations); White Mingo (Six Nations); White Eyes, Captain (Delaware); Pipe, Captain (Delaware); Keykewenum, Captain (Delaware); Compass, Samuel, Captain (Delaware)  ●  A Condolence held with the Six Nations, Delawares, Shawanese, Munsies, Mohegans, and Twightwees  ●  1774

Conolly, J.; Pennsylvania Council  ●  Dr. Connolly's Address to the Magistrates of Westmoreland County, at his interview with them, referred to in the preceding Letter  ●  1774

Conolly, J.; Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Magistrates; Pennsylvania Council  ●  Answer of the Magistrates of Westmoreland County to the foregoing Address  ●  1774

Conolly, John  ●  Proclamation of John Conolly, dated Fort Dunmore, December 30. Forbids the payment of Taxes to Collectors appointed by Pennsylvania, and authorizes the seizure of all persons who may attempt to enforce the collection  ●  1774

Conolly, John, Captain  ●  Letter from Captain John Connolly, Pittsburgh, to a Gentleman in Philadelphia. Has sent a detachment to protect the Settlements about Red Stone from the Shawanese  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Address considered, approved, and ordered to be engrossed, To be sent to the Colony Agents, to be presented to his Majesty, and the Agents requested to call in the aid of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as are firm friends to American Liberty, Committee to prepare a Letter to the Agents, Thanks of Congress to the patriotick Advocates of Civil and Religious Liberty who have espoused the cause of America, both in and out of Parliament  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebeck  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Address to the King, List of the Colony Agents  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Address to the People of Great Britain  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Address to the People of Quebeck reported, considered, and recommitted, Address to the King reported  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Committee appointed to state the Rights of the Colonies, the instances in which they are violated, and the means most proper to obtain a restoration of them, Committee appointed to examine and report the several Statutes which affect the Trade and manufactures of the Colonies, President authorized to adjourn, from day to day, when there is no business  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Committee to prepare an Address to the People of Quebeck, and Letters to the Colonies of St. John's, Nova-Scotia, Georgia, and East and West Florida, Committee to revise the Minutes of Congress, Address to the King considered, recommitted, and Mr. Dickinson added to the Committee, The seizing a Person, in America, to transport him beyond the Sea, for Trial, declared to be against the Law, and ought to meet with resistance and reprisal  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Consideration of means for restoration of Rights, Resumed Instruction to Committee appointed to prepare the form of an Association  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Credentials of the Delegates read and approved  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Credentials of the Delegates read and approved  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Credentials of the Delegates read and approved  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Credentials of the Delegates read and approved  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Further considered Importation of all Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, whatsoever, from Great Britain, or Ireland, prohibited after first of December next, None exported from Great Britain, or Ireland, after that day, shall be used or purchased in the Colonies  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Further considered, Exportation of all Merchandise whatsoever, from the Colonies to Great Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies, prohibited after the 1st of September, 1775, unless America Grievances are redressed before that time, Committee to prepare a Plan to carry into effect the Non-Importation, Non-Consumption, and Non-Exportation resolved on  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Further considered, Instruction to the Committee on the Address, Address from William Goddard received  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Further considered, Resolutions declaring the Rights and Grievances of the Colonies, Letter from several Gentlemen, in Georgia, read  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Instructions to the Committee on the Address, Matters proper to be contained in the Address considered, Further considered  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  John Herring, from Orange County, New-York, attended, Consideration of the Means for restoring Rights, resumed  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Letter from Boston Committee considered, Committee to prepare a Letter to General Gage  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Letter from Boston further considered, Opposition of the Inhabitants of Massachusetts to late Acts of Parliament approved by Congress. If the Acts are attempted to be enforced by Arms, all America ought to support them in their opposition  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Letter from Boston further considered, Removal of the People from Boston, so important in its consequences as to require the utmost deliberation. If absolutely necessary, they should be recompensed by all America, People of Massachusetts advised to submit to a suspension of the administration of justice, where it cannot be procured under the Charter, Any Person who shall act under any authority derived from the Act of Parliament, altering the Government of Massachusetts, to be held in detestation, as a wicked tool of the despotion, which is preparing to destroy the Rights of America  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  List of the Delegates who attended the Congress  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Matthew Tilghman, a Delegate from Maryland, attended  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Meeting of the Delegates chosen and appointed by the several Colonies and Provinces, in North America, to hold a Congress at Philadelphia, Members present from the several Colonies, Peyton Randolph elected President, Credentials read and approved  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Memorial to the Inhabitants of the Colonies  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Merchants and others in the several Colonies requested not to send to Great Britain any orders for Goods, Report of Committee on the Rights of the Colonies, brought in and read, Copy of the Report made out for each Colony  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  New-York  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  People of Boston advised to conduct themselves peaceably towards General Gage and the Troops, Committee to prepare a Memorial to the People of British America and an Address to the People of Great Britain  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Peyton Randolph unable to attend the Congress, Henry Middleton chosen President, Address from Christopher Tally received, Journal ordered to be printed, A Congress to be held on the 10th of May next, unless redress of Grievances should be sooner obtained, recommended  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Plan for carrying into effect the Non-Importation, Non-Consumption, and Non-Exportation Agreement, reported by the Committee, Consideration of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonies resumed, Further considered  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Plan further considered, amended, and ordered to be transcribed, to be signed by the Members, Address to the People of Great Britain reported  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Plan of Association further considered  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Referred to the Committee appointed to state the Rights of the Colonies  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Resolution offered by Mr. Galloway, declaring the Colonies hold in abhorrence the idea of being considered Independent Communities, Mr. Galloway's Plan for a proposed union between Great Britain and the Colonies, Means of restoring the Rights, considered  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  September 8th  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  September 9th  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  September 10th  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  Simon Boerum, from King's County, New-York, attended, Means of restoring the Rights, further considered, Committee to prepare an Address to the King, requesting a Redress of Grievances  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  The Address considered, amended, and recommitted, Memorial to the Inhabitants of the Colonies reported  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  The Association read and signed, Fac-simile of the Signatures to the Association, Memorial to the Inhabitants of the Colonies further considered  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  The Report considered, Congress will now consider only such Rights as have been infringed since 1753, postponing the consideration of the General Rights of America to a future day, Committee appointed to state the Rights, brought in a Report of the Infringements and Violations of American Rights, Consideration of the Report deferred Congress, in the meanwhile, to deliberate on the Means to be pursued for a restoration of our Rights  ●  1774

Continental Congress  ●  William Hooper and Joseph Hewes, from North Carolina, attended, Henry Wisner, from Orange County, in New-York, attended, George Ross, from Pennsylvania, and John Alsop, from New-York, attended, Delegates from Massachusetts presented the Proceedings of the Joint Committees of the Towns in the County of Middlesex, at Concord, on the 30th and 31st of August  ●  1774

Continental Congress; Adams, Samuel  ●  Massachusetts  ●  1774

Continental Congress; Attmore, William  ●  Richard Henry Lee, from Virginia, attended, Rules of Order adopted, Reverend Mr. Duche requested to open the Congress with Prayers, Thomas Johnson, Jun., from Maryland attended  ●  1774

Continental Congress; Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence  ●  Connecticut  ●  1774

Continental Congress; Connecticut, Committee of Correspondence  ●  Connecticut  ●  1774

Continental Congress; Connecticut, House of Representatives; Williams, William  ●  Connecticut  ●  1774