title: Letter to Governor Horatio Sharpe of Maryland

originInfo: 1758-03-24Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790

namePart: Peters, Richard

abstracts: By command of the Governor acknowledges letter of 21st inst.; the Assembly has voted to raise two thousand, seven hundred men in obedience to the commands of His Majesty; the Lower Counties will raise three hundred men; nothing decisive has been done by Mr. [Benjamin] Franklin; his letters abuse the Proprietors, apparently without other cause than that they "insist on his reducing every demand to writing"; paper money sent has been in the custody of Benjamin Shoemaker.


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title: Document

originInfo: 1756-06-07Philadelphia, Pa.

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

type: personal

authority: naf

namePart: Pennsylvania (Province). Assembly

usage: primary

title: Document

supplied: yes

abstracts: Assembly order to the Provincial Secretary to issue writs for election of members to fill vacancies caused by the resignation of James Pemberton, Joshua Morris, William Callender, William Peters, Peter Worrall, and Francis Parvin.

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title: Letter to Rev. Jared Eliot

originInfo: 1753-04-12Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Eliot, Jared

namePart: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

title: Letter to Rev. Jared Eliot

abstracts: Case of pride in a young woman mentioned by the Tatler; cause he has had for vanity: the "Grand Monarch of France" sends express thanks to Mr. Franklin, "for the useful Discoveries in Electricity, & Application of the pointed Rods to prevent the terrible Effects of Thunderstorms." P. S. May 3, 1753, on the properties of the air, etc.


title: Letter to Samuel Galloway, Annapolis

namePart: Galloway, Samuel

namePart: Tasker, Benjamin

title: Letter to Samuel Galloway, Annapolis


title: Letter to Samuel Galloway

originInfo: 1760-05-06Leonard Town, Md.

namePart: Barnes, Abraham

title: Letter to Samuel Galloway

abstracts: Regrets his uneasiness in regard to Bill of Sale for the Scow "Resolute"; Capt. Lowndes' claim.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Report of committee on accounts of Thomas Hubbard; signed by James Otis, July 30, 1764. Sent to Council by the House of Representatives, Oct. 25, 1764; signed by S. White, Speaker. Audited Oct. 26, 1764, by Harrison Gray, Thos. Flucker, Royall Tyler, Committee of Council. Approved by Council, Oct. 27, 1764; signed by A. Oliver, Sec., and Fra. Bernard. Endorsed with the account of provisions delivered, May 30, 1764, by Hubbard.


title: Document

namePart: Ward, Samuel

title: Document

abstracts: Account with William Vernon, June 1767 to July 1771.


title: Document

namePart: Connecticut (Colony). General Assembly

title: Document

abstracts: Instructions to the committee to treat with the Governor of Pennsylvania, relative to western lands. Transcript.


title: Document

namePart: Connecticut (Colony). Governor

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of Governor Thomas Fitch to James DeLancey, Lieutenant- Governor of New York, that Captain Street Hall had raised a company of one hundred men for the service of New York.


title: Document

namePart: New York (Colony). General Assembly

title: Document

abstracts: Resolution requesting the Lieutenant-Governor to ask aid from neighbouring colonies in erecting forts among the Six Nations; Mr. Thomas and Mr. Miller appointed a committee to wait on the Lieutenant-Governor with the request. Transcript by Abraham Lott, Jr., Clerk. Attested, Apr. 20, 1754 by Gw. Banyar. Endorsed.


title: Document

namePart: New Jersey. Council

title: Document

abstracts: Report of Committee on Articles of Confederation; recommending that a Committee of both Houses be appointed to instruct Delegates of New Jersey in Congress to sign them.


title: Letter to Elias Boudinot, Elizabethtown

namePart: Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

namePart: Lawrence, John

title: Letter to Elias Boudinot, Elizabethtown

abstracts: Concerning the current elections; good prospect for success; hopes to foil the combination of Ogden, Hooper, and others; indiscretion of the "C-k'-t-s" in pushing the test against the Quakers; his insistence on necessity of united effort.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Message to Governor. Unable to extend laws of the Province to affect traders from other provinces; willing to consider Sir William Johnson's recommendations on Indian affairs whenever he shall send them.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Extract from journals appointing Benjamin Lightfoot, and such other person as he shall choose, a committee to examine the ground for a road to Fort Augusta, and report thereon; authorizing Commissioners for Indian affairs to apply to Governor for escort, if necessary.


title: Document

originInfo: 1765-10-26Delaware, Province.

namePart: Delaware (Province). General Assembly

title: Document

abstracts: Order on Trustees of General Loan Office of Kent County for £7 3s. 5d., payment to Representatives of Sussex County.


title: Document

originInfo: 1782-01-22Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council

title: Document

abstracts: Order on David Rittenhouse, State Treasurer, for £4 10s., travelling expenses of William Augustus Atlee, to Court of Oyer and Terminer at Philadelphia, Jan. 7, 1782.


title: Letter to Caesar Rodney

originInfo: 1766-09-08Dover, Del.Dover, Del.

namePart: Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784

namePart: Vining, John

title: Letter to Caesar Rodney

abstracts: Thanks him for his political epistle sent by Dr McCall ; fears he can not influence the obstinacy of his brother; when B. Franklin sounded the ministry respecting a change of government he learned that if he were hardy enough to offer his petition again, it would be noticed in a very different way; effect this should have on R. H ; other matters spoken of touching Mr. Stout, McGow, Andrews, and Peters and Duché.


title: Letter to Richard Peters, Philadelphia

originInfo: 1758-07-05Lewistown, Del.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Peters, Richard

namePart: Kollock, Jacob

title: Letter to Richard Peters, Philadelphia

abstracts: Asking word, by Thomas Robinson, how far he has proceeded with regard to the "Irish Tract that the People was Distrawing as Fast as they Could.".


title: Letter to Thomas Rodney, Natchez

namePart: Rodney, Thomas

namePart: Hall, David

title: Letter to Thomas Rodney, Natchez

abstracts: Soliciting aid for the daughters of Colonel Farmer, in reclaiming landed property near New Orleans.


title: Letter to Samuel Galloway, Annapolis

namePart: Galloway, Samuel

namePart: Lloyd, Robert

title: Letter to Samuel Galloway, Annapolis

abstracts: Regrets that delay in delivering Galloway's letter of Aug. 23d prevented his shipping tobacco to Mr. Anderson, by Galloway's ship; suggests that if there be still room, Col. Edward Lloyd may have some shipments to make.


title: Letter

namePart: Wright, James, Sir, 1716-1785

title: Letter

abstracts: Requesting payment of debt, due from Barnett, turned over to Wright by Capt. Baker.


title: Document

namePart: South Carolina (Province). Governor

title: Document

abstracts: Petition to William Bull, Lieutenant-Governor, the Council, and Assembly; asking that the undersigned be compensated for land, the use of which is deprived them; signed by William Logan, Attorney for Richard Beresford; John Wragg, Attorney for Judith Wragg; George Bedon; Hopkins Price; Ebenezer Simmons; William Graeme, Attorney for David Graeme; John Logan, Attorney for Richard Beresford; Charles Elliott; William Raven.


title: Document

originInfo: 1778-08-14South Carolina

namePart: South Carolina. Governor

title: Document

abstracts: Account of Rawlins Lowndes, President of South Carolina, with John Calvert.


title: Document

namePart: Massachusetts (Province). House of Representatives

title: Document

abstracts: Resolution, discharging Treasurer of £166 16s. 10d.; and making him further accountable for £72 11s. 1/2d. and £358 8s. 5d. 3f.


title: Document

namePart: Great Britain. Treasury

title: Document

abstracts: Order on Henry Fox, Paymaster of the Forces, for £273, payment due Lieut.-Col. William Faucett as Commissary in Germany.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: "To the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of Great Britain in Parliament Assembled. The Memorial of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, [blank space] New Jersey, Pennsylvania, The Government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware, Province of Maryland." Signed by "James Otis, Olr Partridge, Committee from the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay; Metcalfe Bowler, Henry Ward, Committee from the Gen. Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Hendk Fisher, Joseph Borden, Committee from the Province of New Jersey; Geo Bryan, John Morton, Committee from the Province of Pennsylvania; Tho M: Kean, Caesar Rodney, Committee from the Government of the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware; Wm Murdoch, E. Tilghman, Th. Ringgold, Committee from the House of Representatives of the Province of Maryland." 3 pp. Endorsed on page 6: "Memorial to Lords spiritual & temporal in the parliament of Great Britain by delegates of sundry colonies met at New York 1765." 6 pp. Artotype fac-simile by Bierstadt. [New York, 1897.].


title: Letter to R. H. St G. Yonge

originInfo: 1787-08-25London, England

namePart: Yonge, George

namePart: Conway, Henry Seymour

title: Letter to R. H. St G. Yonge

abstracts: Recommending Dr. Herrick to an appointment of physician.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Obligation of Richard Wylly and Alexander Wylly of Savannah, to the King, for £100; with proviso that above obligation is void if Richard Wylly improve land granted him, by importing within eighteen months, one negro for every hundred acres. Signed by Richard Wylly and Alexander Wylly. Printed form filled in and certified by Thomas Moodie. Endorsed: "Settling 500 Acres land.".


title: Letter to Capt. Phineas Lovett, Mendon [Mass.]

namePart: Lovett, Phineas

namePart: Otis, James

abstracts: Ordering "Three Hundred Barrils, full Gage sutable for oyl & Clear of Sapp," to be delivered to his son in Boston by the middle of April.


title: Letter to Dennis De Berdt, London

originInfo: 1766-10-03Hatfield, Mass.

namePart: De Berdt, Dennis

namePart: Partridge, Oliver

title: Letter to Dennis De Berdt, London

abstracts: Thanking him for his exertions relative to the Stamp Act and to the charter for the academy at Hatfield; expenses at Harvard and Yale, state of morality there, the distance from Hampshire County, and the rapid settlement of the country to the northward are among the reasons urging them to ask for this charter; recent remarkable revival of religion. In a postscript he asks if there is any chance for a grant of land similar to that received by "the Jersey College.".


title: Letter to Governor Tryon [New York]

originInfo: 1772-06-01Hardwicke, Mass.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Tryon, William, 1729-1788

namePart: Ruggles, Timothy

title: Letter to Governor Tryon [New York]


title: Letter to William Vernon [Newport]

namePart: Vernon, William

namePart: Bowler, Metcalfe

title: Letter to William Vernon [Newport]

abstracts: Making arrangements about leasing his house.


title: Document

originInfo: 1760Rhode Island

namePart: Rhode Island (Colony). General Assembly

title: Document

abstracts: House of Magistrates proposes a conference with the House of Deputies with regard to a resolution proportioning the present tax among the counties.


title: Letter to [Dyer White, New Haven.]

originInfo: 1760New Haven, Conn.

namePart: White, Dyer

namePart: Dyer, Eliphalet

title: Letter to [Dyer White, New Haven.]

abstracts: Requesting him to inquire for "Morse's Geography last Edition & one Volumn of the Preceptor" lost or lent by his son while at college.


title: Letter to Jedediah Elderkin

originInfo: 1768-01-23London, England

namePart: Elderkin, Jedediah

namePart: Johnson, William Samuel

title: Letter to Jedediah Elderkin

abstracts: trusts that American affairs will not justify further severe measures by Parliament; present disposition is for non-interference with America, due partly to approaching elections; corruption of English elections; large fees of lawyers; recent changes in the Grafton ministry have put Lord Hillsborough at the head of American affairs; critics allege that American loyalty is loyalty to the Crown alone and not to Parliament. In a postscript he speaks of the recent heavy frost in England.


title: Letter to Capt. Zebulon Butler, Hartford

originInfo: 1775-05-24East Hartford, Conn.

namePart: Butler, Zebulon

namePart: Rowland, David

abstracts: Requesting assistance in procuring payment of £14 due him from Mr. Williams.


title: Letter to Robert Livingston, Woodstock

namePart: Livingston, Robert

namePart: Livingston, Robert R.

title: Letter to Robert Livingston, Woodstock

abstracts: Urges his father to give less attention to business and more to his health; thinks it would be no loss to defer settlement of the land.


title: Document

namePart: Livingston, Philip

title: Document

abstracts: Affidavit of Richard Harris before Philip Livingston, Justice of the Peace, that he saw James Napier sign the letter, on the back of which the affidavit is written, giving Ephraim Brasher power of attorney; and that Jacob Broome witnessed the same.


title: Letter to Gov. George Clinton

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Cruger, John

title: Letter to Gov. George Clinton

abstracts: Requesting the Governor to contrive some means of allowing him to go to New York; he is unwilling to go on the conditions proposed by Gen. Gates (that he engage to secure the proposed exchanges), but, if the Governor thinks Sir Henry Clinton will do as Gates expects, he will go down on parole, leaving his family and effects.


title: Letter to Thomas Fairweather, Boston

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Fairweather, Thomas

namePart: Bayard, William

title: Letter to Thomas Fairweather, Boston

abstracts: Arrival of prize vessel from the Sound will not affect price of molasses, as it was loaded wholly with rum and sugar.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Release by Mary Barclay, Andrew Barclay, Leonard Lispenard, David Clarkson, executors of the estate of Henry Barclay, to Hendrick Rutgers, of lot, number one hundred and sixty- three, Catherine Street, for £5. Signed by Mary Barclay, Andrew Barclay, Leonard Lispenard, David Clarkson, before Robert Benson and Egbert Benson. Witnessed, July 19, 1769, by Robert Benson before John Van Cortlandt, Mayor. Certificate of record in "Lib: Deeds, comeng the 16th May, 1768, page 226," attested by Gw. Banyer, Deputy Secretary.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate by Robert Ogden, County Clerk, of freedom from mortgage of estate of Thomas Pollock, in Elizabethtown.


title: Letter to John Dennis

namePart: Dennis, John

namePart: Fisher, Hendrick

title: Letter to John Dennis

abstracts: Requesting the loan of £150; desires news of affairs at New York and Long Island, and of the Assembly at Princeton.


title: Letter to Gov. William Livingston, Burlington

namePart: Livingston, William

namePart: Borden, Joseph

abstracts: Recommending Marmaduke Curtis for the position of first lieutenant.


title: Letter to F. Barbé de Marbois

originInfo: 1784-10-30Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Marbois, F. Barbé de

namePart: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

title: Letter to F. Barbé de Marbois

abstracts: Enclosing proceedings of the Supreme Court in the case of Charles Julian de Longchamps.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: "A List of the Grand Jury for the Court of Oyer & Terminer to be held at Chester for the County of Chester, August the 15th, ADomini 1768." Twenty-four names.


title: Letter to John Whitehill

originInfo: 1785-06-10Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Whitehill, John

namePart: Bryan, George

title: Letter to John Whitehill

abstracts: Answers to questions relating to trial of Mamachtagwin, an Indian charged with murder at Pittsburg; trial should be by jury of vicinage if there is any doubt as to place of the murder; the Indian has a right to a party jury, half white and half Indian; the President and Council, in his opinion, have authority to issue a special commission to persons not Judges of the Supreme Court, to decide in such cases; precedents cited; the court that tries should pronounce judgment and award execution thereof; reference of the warrant to Council is an old usage and might easily be dispensed with; place of judgment, by act of Westmoreland County, should be Hanna's Town; for precedent, the Commission should be special, and limited to trial of Indian now in custody.


title: Letter to George Bryan

namePart: McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817

title: Letter to George Bryan

abstracts: Is unwilling, unless further evidence be forthcoming from the Council, to keep in prison, James Bracken, charged with giving intelligence to the enemy at Philadelphia, as his journey thither is explained by the necessity of seeking skilful physicians. In a postscript he adds that James Nugent and Gresenor, two of Felte Shockey's men, taken near Chambersburg, Cumberland County, are all, out of sixteen he has examined, that can be charged fairly with counterfeiting; they will be tried at Carlisle.


title: Letter to [Thomas Rodney, Dover.]

originInfo: 1775-09-26Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Rodney, Thomas

namePart: Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784

title: Letter to [Thomas Rodney, Dover.]

abstracts: Urging the claims of Mr. Barrett [Philip Barratt] as a candidate for sheriff in the approaching elections.


title: Letter to Samuel Galloway

originInfo: 1760-02-02Prince George County, Md.

namePart: Galloway, Samuel

namePart: Murdock, William

title: Letter to Samuel Galloway

abstracts: His determination to wait for his cousin Jo. Murdock and further news from England makes it unnecessary to trouble Galloway's captain any further.


title: Letter to Caesar Rodney

namePart: Tilghman, Edward

title: Letter to Caesar Rodney

abstracts: Pleasure he had from a visit of Thomas Lynch and his family; hopes that "Mr. Chew's Weekness or Mr. Pere (?) Frisby's recent Death" will not prevent his having "one more agreeable Time at Dover.".


title: Letter to Robert Couden and John Clapham, Annapolis

originInfo: 1770-03-20Chestertown, Md.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Couden, Robert

namePart: Clapham, John

namePart: Ringgold, Thomas

abstracts: Wishes to take out $3,000, and a friend $1,000 ; asks that three or four blank bonds be sent ; can see no possible objection to such a proceeding.


title: Letter to Henry Lloyd, Boston

originInfo: 1769-06-05South Carolina

namePart: Lloyd, Henry

namePart: Lynch, Thomas

title: Letter to Henry Lloyd, Boston


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Account with Daniel Doyley, Provost Marshal, for ,£8,745 5s. 6d., for sundries purchased at John Baxter's sale of effects taken on execution. Endorsed.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Obligation of Christopher Gadsden and William Freeman to James Glen, Governor of South Carolina, for £2,000 ; the bond to be void if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the marriage of Christopher Gadsden and Jane Godfrey, by Rev. Robert Betham. Signed by Christopher Gadsden and William George Freeman. Printed form filled in.


title: Letter to Gov. Richard Caswell

namePart: Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789

namePart: Rutledge, John

title: Letter to Gov. Richard Caswell

abstracts: Sends information byMaj.-Gen. [Robert] Howe; requests that whatever aid North Carolina can afford may be forwarded quickly, as they must drive the enemy from Georgia before warm weather sets in.


title: Clipping

title: Clipping

abstracts: Description and engraving of a stamp in the rooms of the Connecticut Historical Society, at Hartford.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: An embossed stamp for two shillings, six pence, on the upper left-hand corner of a folio sheet of white writing paper bearing the manuscript note: "Original sheet of stamped paper, returned from America.".


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Order on Lord Hardwicke for £4,947 5s. 11d., expenses of Commissioners of Stamp duties. Signed by Earl Lincoln, Auditor of Exchequer; by William Dowdeswell, Chancellor of the Exchequer; and John Cavendish, Thomas Townshend, George Onslow, Lords of the Treasury. 1 page. Receipted, Oct. 24, 1765, by John Kenrick, J. Bindley, J. Barnard, Commissioners ; witnessed by G. Coltman on page 2. Endorsed on page 3: "Ld Hardwicke pd. 24th Oct. 1765.".


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: A New York stamp for three pence, embossed on a bit of paper cut from a legal instrument.


title: Fac-simile of the 'Autographs of the Merchants and other Citizens of Philadelphia as subscribed to the Non-Importation Resolutions, October 25th, 1765.' Text of the six resolutions cutting off trade with Great Britain until the repeal of the Stamp Act, an


title: Letter to Gov. Bernard

namePart: Moore, Sir Henry

title: Letter to Gov. Bernard

abstracts: The differences between New York and Massachusetts are due to litigation between private persons, not to questions of territorial jurisdiction ; New York is ready to follow Earl Shelburne's proposition to appoint Commissaries to settle the matter, and asks that Massachusetts speedily signify her assent. Extract attested by A. Oliver, Sec.


title: Letter

namePart: McEvers, James

title: Letter

abstracts: Enclosing bond of Jeronimus Remsen, son of Rem Remsen, the elder brother of Hendrick Remsen, the father of George Remsen.


title: Letter to William Denny

namePart: Denny, William, b. 1718

namePart: Masters, William

title: Letter to William Denny

abstracts: Their goods are now at Easton, ready to be disposed of to the Indians ; George Croghan has intimated that private presents are expected by Tedyuscung, other Indian messengers, French Margaret, and Moses Tetamy. Signed Wm Masters, Jos: Fox, Jos. Galloway, Jon. Hughes.


title: Document

originInfo: 1765-11-18Williamsburg, Va.

namePart: Mercer, George

title: Document

abstracts: Authorizing James Mercer, in his absence, to receive the stamps expected from Great Britain; to appoint assistants, etc.


title: Letter

originInfo: 1766-05-19Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Gordon, James

title: Letter

abstracts: News of the repeal of the Stamp Act received that day; rejoicing in the city; illuminations and a dinner in the State House announced for next evening; prospects very favourable for increased trade.


title: Document

namePart: Massachusetts (Province). House of Representatives

title: Document

abstracts: Acknowledging receipt of resolutions from Virginia House of Burgesses, dated March 12, 1773, requesting appointment of a Committee of Correspondence; committee of fifteen appointed; to obtain information of proceedings of British government that affect the colonies; to correspond with the other colonies concerning these; to lay before the House the results of their investigations; to investigate the authority of the Rhode Island Court of Enquiry claiming the power of transporting political offenders beyond seas, for trial; further, to reply to the letters from Virginia and Rhode Island, and to address a circular letter to the other colonial Assemblies. Committee: the Speaker, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, William Phillips, William Heath, Joseph Hawley, James Warren, Richard Derby, Jr., Elbridge Gerry, Jerathmeel Bowers, Jedediah Foster, Daniel Leonard, Thomas Gardner, Jonathan Greenleaf, James Prescott. In the handwriting of Thomas Cushing. Attested: "A true copy, Sam1 Adams, Cler.".


title: Document

namePart: Chaloner, Walter

title: Document

abstracts: Letters patent from Walter Chaloner, "reduced Lieutenant in Gooch's late Regiment of Foot," giving John Sherwood of London power of attorney to receive money due Chaloner from Lord Barrington, Paymaster of the Forces.


title: Letter to Peyton Randolph and the Committee of Correspondence of Virginia

namePart: Randolph, Peyton

namePart: Connecticut (Colony). Committee of Correspondence

abstracts: Connecticut Committee of Correspondence have appointed the undersigned a select Corresponding Committee; the Virginia Committee is referred to the Committee of Correspondence of Rhode Island for information in regard to recent Court of Enquiry held in that colony; information is requested as to action of Judges of Superior Court in Virginia in the matter of writs of assistance; Virginia assured of the support of Connecticut, and of their hope to strengthen that harmony of union among the colonies which daily appears more necessary. Signed by Wm Williams, Silas Deane, Benja Payne, Joseph Trumbull.


title: Letter to Col. Samuel B. Webb, President of Court Martial, Danbury

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Webb, Samuel B.

namePart: Parsons, Samuel Holden

abstracts: The enclosed papers found on Baldwin tend clearly to prove an attempt against the life of Parsons or some one else, and to show his forwarding the measures of the enemy; asks for return of the papers and the original letter used on Collier's trial; Webb should take the proceedings with him, if he can not send them that night; the latter would be better, however.


title: Letter to "Brother Tom."

namePart: Field, Robert

title: Letter to "Brother Tom."

abstracts: Asking that certain provisions be sent by bearer, John Taylor.


title: Letter to Thomas Riche, Philadelphia

namePart: Riche, Thomas

namePart: Tucker, Samuel

title: Letter to Thomas Riche, Philadelphia

abstracts: Requesting him to bring, for the suit between Tucker and William Morris, the deed from Jacob Arnwine to James Stuart; also deeds and papers relating to the swamp tracts; John Coxe Sr., and James Bennezet are also to come.


title: Document

namePart: New Jersey. Committee of Safety

title: Document

abstracts: Order on [Samuel Tucker and John Dennis] Treasurers of the Provincial Congress, for 12 s., payment to Augustine Stevenson for two days attendance in Committee of Safety, at New Brunswick. Signed by Hendrick Fisher and John Hart. Endorsed: "No. 55. Augustin Stevenson's Certificate. Examined and Allowed, Jesse Hand, Silas Condict.".


title: Letter to [Samuel Tucker, Trenton.]

originInfo: 1775-12-26Hackettstown, N.J.

namePart: Thompson, Mark

title: Letter to [Samuel Tucker, Trenton.]

abstracts: Reciting the services of William Helms; pleading for his appointment as Second Lieutenant in Captain Shaw's company; maintaining that his youthfulness would be no drawback; and that he was more deserving of the position than Mr. Ervin, who holds it at present.


title: Letter to Samuel Tucker, "President of the Committee of Safety of New Jersey."

namePart: Ogden, Lewis

abstracts: Introducing John Doughty and recommending his appointment as Captain-Lieutenant in the Artillery, in place of Captain Bott, about to resign.


title: Letter

originInfo: 1774-07-24Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Pennsylvania (Province). Assembly

title: Letter

abstracts: Enclosing a copy of the resolutions of the House of Representatives respecting the state of the Colonies, and appointing delegates to the Continental Congress.


title: Letter to William Molleson, London

namePart: Molleson, William

namePart: Sewell, Clement

title: Letter to William Molleson, London

abstracts: Shipment of goods received; invoice for goods enclosed; Boston Port bill has caused general alarm in the colonies; Maryland deputies soon to meet; a general non-importation agreement probably to be adopted; "should this mode be hereafter found ineffectual it is generally conceived that a total disunion of commerce will take place between the Colonies and Britain -- dreadful this to think of!".


title: Letter

originInfo: 1774-07-28North Carolina

namePart: North Carolina (Province). Committee of Correspondence

title: Letter

abstracts: Letter of June 20, "to the Speaker of the late House of Assembly" of North Carolina received; the Governor has dissolved the Assembly, but the Committee of Correspondence is endeavouring to convene the Representatives as soon as possible; no doubt that they will agree to the resolutions of the other Assembly and adopt similar ones.


title: Letter to Richard Cranch, Boston

originInfo: 1767-12-06Germantown, Pa.

namePart: Cranch, Richard

namePart: Palmer, Joseph

title: Letter to Richard Cranch, Boston

abstracts: Asking for a quarter cask of wine; stating that his health is somewhat better; inquiries as to personal friends.


title: Letter to Thomas Hutchinson

namePart: Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780

namePart: Gray, Harrison

title: Letter to Thomas Hutchinson

abstracts: Civil war evidently imminent; unjustifiable measures of the Sons of Liberty; courts closed; militia officers forced to resign; members of the Council insulted and compelled to resign their office or to take refuge in Boston; King's revenues shut off; preparations for hostility; people stirred up against the Quebec act by the clergy; hopes expressed for the repeal of the act altering mode of returning juries; "Mr Ingersol the bearer of this . . . has been cruelly used for no other reason than signing the address to your Excellency." Endorsed: "Copy of a Letter to Govr Hutchinson, Octr 1774.".


title: Letter to Richard Oswald

originInfo: 1756-12-14London, England

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Oswald, Richard

namePart: Grenville, George

title: Letter to Richard Oswald

abstracts: The information received from him has been imparted to Lord Temple; further intelligence hoped for.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Lithograph fac-similes of the autographs of the signers of the "Association.".


title: Document

namePart: New Hampshire (Province). Council

title: Document

abstracts: Extracts from the minutes of the Council containing their proceedings on the petition of Edward Parry respecting tea consigned him from London in the ship Fox. Transcript attested by George King, Deputy Secretary.


title: Letter to [John Penn] Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania

originInfo: 1766-08-09London, England

namePart: Penn, John

namePart: Petty, William, Marquis of Lansdowne

abstracts: Transmitting Order in Council of Aug. 8, 1766, revoking Order of March 11, 1752.


originInfo: 1768-04-30London, England

namePart: Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793

abstracts: Transmitting papers relative to murder of William Odgers by Melchisedeck Kinsman; if possible he is to apprehend the murderer, who left Falmouth on board a New York packet, some three weeks since.


title: Letter to Joseph Hawley [Northampton]

namePart: Hawley, Joseph

title: Letter to Joseph Hawley [Northampton]

abstracts: Gov. Tryon of New York has notified him that a bill has been passed, appointing Commissaries from that colony to meet those from Massachusetts to settle boundary between New York and Massachusetts; Hartford and May 12 suggested as place and time of meeting; Mr. Hancock and General Brattle have signified their agreement; Tryon has been notified that the arrangements were satisfactory.


title: Letter to Speaker of Massachusetts House of Representatives

originInfo: 1761-02-12London, England

namePart: Bollan, William

abstracts: Parliament granted on Jan. 20. £200,000, compensation for expenses of colonial governments in campaign of 1760; Bollan had asked for postponement of apportionment till his accounts from Massachusetts should arrive, hoping to get the additional winter service of Massachusetts troops, as garrison at Louisburg and in Nova Scotia, paid for from another source; has slight hope of success, because of the general financial depression, the approaching dissolution of Parliament, and his lack of detailed accounts; the same reasons prevent his answering West's proposal to give colonies only two-thirds of the grant because they furnished only two-thirds as many men as in 1759; the computations received Feb. 6th and 10th from the Lieutenant-Governor are not so satisfactory as more particular statements.


title: Document

namePart: North Carolina (Province). Provincial Congress

title: Document

abstracts: Resolution approving of the non-importation "Association" entered into by the Continental Congress, Oct. 20, 1774. Signatures of sixty-seven members.


title: Document

namePart: Massachusetts (Province). Provincial Congress

title: Document

abstracts: Extract from the minutes, approving proceedings of Continental Congress of 1774; members thereof thanked for their exertions; John Hancock, Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine appointed delegates to the Congress at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775. Transcript attested by Benjamin Lincoln, Secretary.


title: Letter to Nicholas Gilman

namePart: Gilman, Nicholas

namePart: Sullivan, John, 1740-1795

title: Letter to Nicholas Gilman

abstracts: Asking him to forward money in return for enclosed bills on Col. Hamilton; if Hamilton is away, present them to Gen. Schuyler or some other agent; Treasurer [of New Hampshire] had refused to purchase them for supply of the New Hampshire delegates in Congress, because of lack of funds; affairs are quiet in the state; "speculation is a root that prospers well in the soil of New Hampshire.".


title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

originInfo: 1780-08-14Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

namePart: Folsom, Nathaniel

title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

abstracts: Resolution of Congress of Mar. 18 [redemption of Continental money by new issues based upon credit of the States, at a discount of forty dollars of old emission for one of the new], to which Bartlett objected so strongly, was absolutely necessary; rapid depreciation of Continental money spoken of; importance of the campaign of 1780 upon the American cause; "our generals spirits and expectations are Riseing"; second division of war ships from France expected every day; Folsom intends to return home, Sept. 20; another delegate should be sent to relieve him; he will forward to Pres. Weare the drawing of the last lottery as soon as published.


title: Letter to the Speaker of the Honble House of Representatives for the Province of Maryland

namePart: Massachusetts (Province). House of Representatives

abstracts: The House, approving of the proposition of the Virginia House of Burgesses, suggesting a congress, encloses a copy of its resolutions, with the request that the Speaker communicate them as soon as convenient to the Representatives of that province.


title: Letter to the Committee of Correspondence of Connecticut

abstracts: Enclosing copy of a vote passed in town-meeting, the occasion being an act of Parliament closing the harbor; Boston is suffering in the common cause; hopes that by the joint efforts of all the effects of the act will be frustrated; General Gage has just superseded Hutchinson as Governor; Salem is to be the seat of government, Marblehead of the customs; Boston to be garrisoned. In the handwriting of Thomas Cushing.


title: Letter to James Warren [Boston]

originInfo: 1776-11-28Braintree, Mass.

namePart: Warren, James

title: Letter to James Warren [Boston]

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter requiring his attendance on the House of Representatives; will wait on the House next morning.


title: Document

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

title: Document

abstracts: State vs. Edward Foster. Robert Treat Paine, Attorney General, advises confiscation of property of Edward Foster, a royalist who fled to Halifax, Apr. 1, 1776.


title: Letter to his daughter, Ruth Smith

namePart: Smith, Ruth

namePart: Hopkins, Stephen

title: Letter to his daughter, Ruth Smith

abstracts: Inquires after her health; the advantages of living abroad; incloses "two small bills.".


title: Letter to Samuel Vernon, Newport

namePart: Vernon, Samuel

namePart: Ward, Samuel

title: Letter to Samuel Vernon, Newport

abstracts: Capt. Richards has bought up most of the flax seed on Block Island; if Vernon will send 120 bushels of salt he will exchange it for as much seed as possible; directions as to freightage.


title: Letter to [Eleazer Wheelock?]

namePart: Wheelock, Eleazar

namePart: Dyer, Eliphalet

title: Letter to [Eleazer Wheelock?]

abstracts: Bidding him not be disappointed because the Connecticut Assembly had refused to receive the money raised in England for the Indian school; the action of the Lower House was hasty; in the Council consideration was postponed till May; hopes of convincing the Assembly of the expediency of it, by that time.


title: Letter to Peyton Randolph, Robert C. Nicholas, Richard Bland, Committee of Correspondence, Williamsburg, Va

namePart: Randolph, Peyton

namePart: Nicholas, Robert C.

namePart: Bland, Richard

namePart: Connecticut (Colony). Committee of Correspondence

abstracts: Enclosing resolutions of the House of Representatives; July or August suggested as time for a congress to meet, the place to be New York or Philadelphia; "the wise, spirited, and seasonable proceedings of Your truly patriotic House of Burgesses, in early proposing a Correspondence and Union of the Colonies has justly merited & universally received the Approbation and grateful Acknowledgments of British America -- And the manly, pious, and humane attention more lately manifested to the distresses of the town of Boston reflect equal honor on them as Men, as Patriots, & as Christians"; a post script tells of the day of fasting appointed by the Assembly and the contribution voted for the relief of Boston.


title: Letter to Merchants of Wethersfield and Hartford

abstracts: Enclosing copies of the resolutions adopted by a mass-meeting, relative to the non-importation agreements; urging them to adhere to them more closely than did the New York merchants. Signed by "Roger Sherman, Thomas Howell, Jesse Leavenworth, Joseph Munson, David Austin, Adam Babcock, Commit." Endorsed: "Gentlemen in New Haven's Letter to the Gentlemen in Wethersfield & Hartford.".


title: Letter to the convention of New York

originInfo: 1775-11-28Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Duane, James

title: Letter to the convention of New York

abstracts: Transmitting the enclosed resolutions of Congress; Congress appreciates the importance of the fortress on the Hudson and only waits their recommendation to appoint the commander; appropriation of $50, 000 secured for them.


title: Letter to "Lt. Colonel [Marinus] Willet of the New York troops with Major General Sullivan."

originInfo: 1779-09-29Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Willett, Marinus

abstracts: Samuel Huntington has been elected President of Congress to succeed Jay who is to be sent to Spain to negotiate treaties; he expects to sail very soon; letters addressed to Mrs. Willet, in care of Mr. Lewis, will undoubtedly reach her safely.


title: Letter to Col. Renselaer

namePart: Renselaer

namePart: Livingston, Philip, Jr.

title: Letter to Col. Renselaer

abstracts: [Stephen Van Rensselaer?]. Asking that a mast of white or pitch pine be sent down as soon as possible.


title: Letter to [Jelles Fonda, Caghnawaga.]

namePart: Fonda, Jelles

namePart: Low, Isaac

title: Letter to [Jelles Fonda, Caghnawaga.]

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of June 24, sent by Mr. Dawson; promises to ship the hogsheads to Thomas Harris, London, as soon as a vessel sails; bill on Mr. Croghan acknowledged; sends by Philip Lansing a paper bundle of wampum amounting to £15 11s. 6d.


title: Letter to Messrs. Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan, Philadelphia

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Baynton,

namePart: Wharton,

namePart: Morgan,

namePart: Alsop, John

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter dated July 1; Captain Harris promised him to forward their letter to Pensacola; glad to hear of the safe arrival of the batteau.


title: Letter to Gov. [George] Clinton

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Floyd, William

title: Letter to Gov. [George] Clinton

abstracts: Enclosing nominations for vacancies in the troops; asks that the commissions be given to Mr. L'hommedieu.


title: Letter to Julius Funda, Schenectady

namePart: Funda, Julius

namePart: Wisner, Henry

title: Letter to Julius Funda, Schenectady

abstracts: Inquiring about lands for investment, on behalf of a friend in New Jersey, who is thinking of moving into New York.


title: Letter

namePart: Haring, John

title: Letter

abstracts: Has just arrived at Clarkstown; the local County Committee asks him to send the enclosed letter; hopes his correspondent will do everything to protect the residents.


title: Document

namePart: Boerum, Simon

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt [Apr. 24, 1769] for £850 from Nicholas Veghte.


title: Letter

namePart: Kinsey, James

title: Letter

abstracts: After some search he can find no case to support the confinement of a lunatic except the one enclosed, which does not seem to apply in this instance.


title: Letter to Elias Dayton, Elizabethtown

originInfo: 1777-07-22New Germantown, N.J.

namePart: Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807

namePart: Livingston, William

title: Letter to Elias Dayton, Elizabethtown

abstracts: With regard to Morris Hetfield and Baker Hendricks he can only say they have been committed by legal authority and cannot be discharged but by due process of law; they may perhaps be bailed out but can not be pardoned until convicted.


title: Letter to the Legislative Council and Assembly of New Jersey

originInfo: 1776-09-16Elizabethtown, N.J.

namePart: De Hart, John

abstracts: Accepting his election to the office of Chief Justice, of which fact Mr. Zabrieski has just informed him.


title: Document

originInfo: 1772-10-22Elizabethtown, N.J.

namePart: Crane, Stephen

title: Document

abstracts: Promissory note to William Livingston for £30 New York currency.


title: Letter to Samuel Tucker

originInfo: 1776-01-04Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Tucker, Samuel

namePart: Smith, Richard

title: Letter to Samuel Tucker

abstracts: At the request of Congress he encloses "extracts from their proceedings, the whole of which relative to that subject" he has sent to Lord Stirling, together with six dozen copies of the Articles of War; the $1000 mentioned in the extract he has received, and holds the sum for Tucker's orders; Congress desires information concerning the prisoners of war at Trenton.


title: Letter to John Lukins

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Lukins, John

namePart: Galloway, Joseph

title: Letter to John Lukins

abstracts: Sends form of a report in the affair of Growdon vs. Barnes; begs he will finish the matter; asks if he has seen Mitchell, and if he knows what the latter intends to do.


title: Document

originInfo: 1753-04-26Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Rhoads, Samuel

title: Document

abstracts: Deed transferring to Thomas and Richard Penn a lot of ground described in the accompanying grant and survey (dated Nov. 1, 1745, and signed by Gov. Thomas) on the back of which the deed is written.


title: Letter

originInfo: 1769-12-08Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800

title: Letter

abstracts: Intends to ship four pipes [of wine?] by Captain Church; has received only £18 11s. for a bag of cotton since his correspondent left; this he has paid to James Wharton; cotton is very dull but he will try to raise, from it and from iron, cash enough to pay the principal debts; has taken out no insurance, because of lack of positive orders on that head.


title: Document

namePart: Humphreys, Charles

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for £3 5s. for excise, from James Marshall.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: "A List of the Grand Jury for the Court of Oyer & Terminer held at Chester for the sd County of Chester." Twenty-three names.


title: Document

originInfo: 1752-10-12Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Ross, George

title: Document

abstracts: Order on John Lawrence for £13 10s., payment to Judah Foulk.


title: Letter to James Wilson

namePart: Wilson, James, 1742-1798

namePart: Biddle, Edward

title: Letter to James Wilson

abstracts: Suggesting the names of Mr. Thompson for Colonel, Mr. Magan for Lieutenant-Colonel, Mr. Nagel for Major, officers in the rifle regiment.


title: Letter to Thomas Rodney

namePart: Rodney, Thomas

namePart: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

title: Letter to Thomas Rodney

abstracts: Intends to make more purchases of land [in Delaware] if he can dispose of some property in Pennsylvania: will view Rodney's land when he goes, on the following Saturday, to his place recently bought from Mr. Bell.


title: Letter to Thomas Rodney, Dover [Del.]

originInfo: 1782-03-25Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784

title: Letter to Thomas Rodney, Dover [Del.]

abstracts: Letter of Mar. 19 given him by Ezekiel Cowgell; he intends to move, by June 1, to the Landing; can not comply with Howells's request as he is no fit tenant for any place; has no objection to the Thomases taking the Gibson place and the Meadows; Colonel Lattimer has not paid yet, promising, however, to do so the following week; advises Rodney to take counsel about the horses before trading; Philadelphia merchants have bought the "Hyder-Alley," of sixteen six-pounders, and sent her down the bay as a coastguard under Captain Barny; Colonel Pope's vessels are showing great spirit; the Assembly is fitting out one similar to them; Mr. McKean has just told him of the capture of a refugee, Captain Jones, who seems to have ventured into Philadelphia to spy out about shipping matters; hopes he will be hanged; his prospects of success with regard to his complaint increase every day, but he is anxious to get home; sends by John Freeman, last Thursday's paper.


title: Letter to William and Thomas Bradford [Philadelphia

namePart: Bradford, William

namePart: Bradford, Thomas

namePart: McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817

title: Letter to William and Thomas Bradford Philadelphia

abstracts: Has received no paper for the last three months; directs them to be sent by the Baltimore post, in care of Captain Dunn at Christiana Bridge; his neighbors are all good Whigs; favorable prospects for the party in the whole state; wishes the Bradfords to print a few of the laws passed at the last session of the Legislature, especially one against treason, and one establishing the Continental Currency; copies will be sent them as soon as possible.


title: Letter to Thomas Rodney, Dover [Del.]

namePart: Read, George

title: Letter to Thomas Rodney, Dover [Del.]

abstracts: Mr. Hillegas can find no entry, other than that enclosed, concerning the $1500, part of the $3000 ordered by Congress in 1776 for the Flying Camp Battalion from Delaware; General Patterson's vouchers should show the receipt of that sum; it must have been paid, since Captain Dunn received the first $1500; the Battalion could not have proceeded to Jersey without obtaining it; bill for establishing a General Judiciary has been sent by the Senate to the House; the Senate decided, by the casting vote of the Vice-President, in favor of the President's sole power of removal, independent of the Senate; news from Albany of the choice of General Philip Schuyler and Rufus King for the New York senators.


title: Letter to Robert Lloyd

namePart: Lloyd, Robert

namePart: Tilghman, Matthew

title: Letter to Robert Lloyd

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of the 8th; he will send a load of tobacco on the following terms: payment at rate of 18s. a hundredweight in bills; $1 a hogshead for transportation; and if time is required he is to have any advantage of the market at the time of payment.


title: Letter to [Committees of Safety of Virginia or Pennsylvania?]

originInfo: 1776-03-19Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Maryland (Province). Convention

abstracts: Maryland convention has voted a sum of money to defend Baltimore; batteries are erecting; "if your Colony can spare us four eighteen pounders or eight Twelves or eight Nines, which shall be returned as soon as others can be procured, they will be of infinite Service in defending a Boom now very nearly ready to be laid across the River.".


title: Letter

namePart: Maryland. General Assembly

title: Letter

abstracts: They wish to send articles wanted for the barges, by the vessel "the plater"; they have stopped her till word can be had from the Governor and Council.


title: Document

namePart: Paca, William, 1740-1799

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of a conversation between W. Paca, I. Nicholson, N. Thomas, W. T. Wright, and S. Wilson at Kent Island while on their way to the General Assembly. A letter to Paca from Mr. Chase spoke of the critical state of affairs and wretched condition of the army; Wilson thought a draught would not be feasible for filling up their quota of troops and suggested instead grants of land as bounties for volunteers; if no other plan than the draught could be adopted he thought they had better give up the contest and submit to Great Britain; Paca upbraided him warmly for expressing such sentiments, but later told him he "thought him an honest Man the his Nerves were but weak." In the handwriting of Samuel Chase. Certified: "The above is the Substance of the Conversation, which passed between Mr Wilson & myself & others at Kent Island Ferry & is I think a just general state of the whole of what did pass, W. Paca." Endorsed.


title: Letter to Andrew Buchanan, Baltimore

namePart: Buchanan, Andrew

namePart: Chase, Samuel

title: Letter to Andrew Buchanan, Baltimore

abstracts: The General Court issued an attachment, June 1, for £294 4s. 7d., and costs, against the effects of Robert Christie, on behalf of William Smith's executors; papers shown Chase by Buchanan, and an affidavit of Benjamin Rumsey that Christie told him he had received the money from Patten, influenced the decision; Chase can not advise granting bail.


title: Letter to [Col. Wm. Cabell, Jr. Amherst, Va.]

namePart: Cabell, William Jr.

namePart: Randolph, Peyton

abstracts: Mr. Thomas Lomax having given him security for payment due on his father's mortgage, he has agreed to let him remove the negroes; Mr. Prentis seems impatient to hear about the bond assigned him.


title: Letter to William Lee, London

originInfo: 1774-09-20Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Lee, William

namePart: Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

title: Letter to William Lee, London

abstracts: Congress is proceeding slowly but with great unanimity; at present their transactions are secret, but will probably be published within a fortnight; rumor that Boston had been cannonaded proved unfounded, taking its rise from attempt of the Generals to seize some provincial powder; reported that 50 000 men took up arms in Massachusetts and Connecticut, to oppose them, and that 30 000 were on the march to Boston but quietly returned, on hearing that all was peace at that place; Massachusetts is supported by all the colonies in her opposition to the change in her charter; Congress has approved the Suffolk resolves; the ill-judged measures of the ministry are sure to meet with full and steady opposition.


title: Letter to George Clinton, Governor of New York

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

abstracts: Summoned by Congress to Princeton he wishes information, before he goes, concerning the intended purchase of Saratoga Springs; asks for "a general view of the plan in contemplation, and of the agency I am to have in it; that I may not, in the one thing needful, be involved beyond my abilities; or caught unprepared if the purchase is within the compass of my means.".


title: Letter to General Gates

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

namePart: Henry, Patrick

title: Letter to General Gates

abstracts: Alludes to previous letters on the subject of recommending officers; is sensible of the grievance mentioned by him respecting the promulgation of their laws; sends the number of copies apportioned to Gates's county, and a copy of the Confederation.


title: Letter to Theodoric Bland, Appomattox River, Prince George County, Va.

originInfo: 1744-03-05Scarborough, England

namePart: Bland, Theodoric

namePart: Bland, Richard

abstracts: Excuses himself for delay in answering letter of July 11, 1743; thanks the Blands and Cousin Mumford for their favors; his regret at the news of death of John Beverly; had a rough passage home; he landed at Yarmouth and proceeded to Scarborough by land, on account of the news of a Dunkirk privateer with a Spanish commission having taken a rich prize recently; found sickness at home; his brother still intends to go into the Virginia trade; birth of two sons to his brother; Scarborough has lost, out of 200 ships, only one to the Spanish and two to the French, a small number compared to the loss in the last war.


title: Letter to William Palfrey

namePart: Palfrey, William

namePart: Harrison, Benjamin, ca. 1726-1791

title: Letter to William Palfrey

abstracts: Asking him to insure the schooner Sally, John Kent Master, for £250 sterling, from there to Boston, and 100 barrels of flour for £120 at 5% premium; also sends him 27 barrels of flour amounting to £54 17s. 5d. currency, and 10 barrels of flour and 5 casks of bread, amounting to £25 9s. 2d. to Mr. Gerry.


title: Letter to [Col. Wm. Griffin, King and Queen County, Va.]

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Griffin, William

namePart: Pendleton, Edmund

abstracts: Deals with business matters concerning Col. and Mrs. Griffin, Col. Taylor, and the Robinson estate.


title: Letter to [Governor George Clinton, N. Y.]

namePart: Hooper, William

abstracts: Introducing William Cummings, a delegate to Congress from North Carolina.


title: Document

namePart: Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789

namePart: North Carolina. Governor

title: Document

abstracts: Communication from Governor Richard Caswell to the General Assembly, respecting Samuel Cornell and John London; they produced a letter, signed by General Clinton and Commodore Hotham at New York, permitting them to pass to North Carolina, settle their affairs, and return with their effects; he asks the Assembly to consider what measures should be taken with them and their vessel, as it is evident they consider themselves subjects of the King of Great Britain.


title: Letter to [Samuel Johnston, Edenton, N. C.]

originInfo: 1775-12-01Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Johnston, Samuel

namePart: Hewes, Joseph

abstracts: Nothing new except what is in the joint letter [of the North Carolina delegates in Congress] and the papers sent herewith; they have mentioned the calling a convention in January, but it would better be postponed until May, when they can lay before it a journal of the proceedings of the last Congress as well as of the present; Congress will probably adjourn at Christmas; they grow tired and captious, and need a recess; the Colonies will not agree to any plan of separation until driven to it; fears the time will come soon if the Ministry pursue their diabolical schemes.


title: Autograph

namePart: Middleton, Henry

title: Autograph

abstracts: Cut from the half-title of "Lucan's Pharsalia." [1750?].


title: Document

originInfo: 1779-02-12South Carolina

namePart: South Carolina. Governor

title: Document

abstracts: Communication from Governor John Rutledge to the House of Representatives, laying before them certain resolutions of Congress and an extract of a letter from William Henry Drayton relative to them.


title: Document

namePart: Lynch, Thomas, Sr.

title: Document

abstracts: Obligation for £2000 to Governor Charles Greville Montagu, or to his successors, security for the proper administration of his duty as executor of the estate of Alexander Bartram, deceased; an inventory of the estate to be given the Secretary of the Province on or before Feb. 30 [sic] 1773; account of his administration to be rendered on or before Nov. 30, 1773.


title: Letter

namePart: Gadsden, Christopher

title: Letter

abstracts: Has received from Bullard, on his correspondent's account, £350 "our currency," equal to £50 sterling; will try to remit it in bills but asks what to send if he can not get bills; he is still indebted to the executors of the estate of Mr. Bower for £67 3s. 8d. owing to the distinction he made in settling with Mr. Rutledge, between Philadelphia currency and Proclamation money; if the two are at par he is indebted to Rutledge for the amount; sends his "complimts to Mr Laurens & family.".


title: Letter to [Governor George Clinton, New York.]

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Rutledge, Edward


title: Document

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

title: Document

abstracts: "Rules for conducting Business in the United States in Congress Assembled." Twenty-eight rules; and supplementary resolutions of Feb. 14, Nov. 19, 1782, Jan. 29, Feb. 6, 14, 19, Mar. 4, May 15, 1783; and Index. In the hand writing of Elias Boudinot, except the entry for May 15. Endorsed: "Private rules for conducting business in Congress.".


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Extracts from the Journals, of Mar. 15, 1777, making an allowance to James Price; of Apr. 8, 1777, granting Elias Boudinot "One Thousand One Hundred and Six Pounds, Nine Shillings and seven Pence New-York Money, equal to Two Thousand seven Hundred and Sixty-six Dollars and eighteen Ninetieth Parts of a Dollar"; of Apr. 29, 1777, fixing the salary of the Commissioners for settling the public accounts of the Army in the Northern department, at $4 a day; of May 9, 1777, granting the Commissioners, James Milligan, John Carter and John Welles, each $3444; of June 3, 1777, directing the Commissioners to allow the Commissary's accounts.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Extract from the minutes containing the resolution upon the report of the committee [James Duane, Thomas Bee, Jesse Root] on the letter of Mar. 12 from Charles Pettit, deciding that no interest be allowed upon money emitted pursuant to the act of Mar. 18, 1780, at the time of issuing the same from the loan-offices, or when officers of the United States make payment therewith for supplies or in discharge of public debts.


title: Letter to John Penn [England]

originInfo: 1771-06-06Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Penn, John

namePart: Duché, Jacob

title: Letter to John Penn [England]

abstracts: Sends by Mr. Willday printed copies of his sermon on the death of Penn's father, Richard; general regret in the city at his departure; asks for a recommendation to his brother [Richard Penn]. "Poor Frank is disappointed of the Comptrollership. He bears it with his usual Fortitude; and takes to his Counter and his Day-Book with as much Composure as ever." Speaks of the marriage of Miss Redman to Dan. Coxe of Trenton, the evening before; and the cheerfulness of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Allen, Harry Hill and Sam. Meredith at the ceremony; Dr. [Richard] Peters still continues incapable of doing duty, but a temporary assistant from New York makes the burden lighter to Duché.


title: Letter to Rev. David McClure, Portsmouth, N. H.

originInfo: 1776-06-25Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: McClure, David

namePart: Duffield, George

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of a letter in May, together with one to Mr. McClintoc; war is spreading; preparations for defence of the city; gallies; floating batteries; ship of war; chevaux de frise; a land battery; spirit of the militia; general desire for independence, except on the part of Quakers, Mennonists and proprietary connections; convention of 108 members to meet next month and draw up a state constitution; war preferable to their former condition; regrets that Great Britain and the colonies could not have separated peaceably; the very children now execrate the name of English; the question of the Church will probably remain undecided.


title: EM449

type: admin

text: Metadata to be culled from Emmet calendar (external vendor). Titles and other metadata will be updated when available.

type: citation/reference

title: EM449

supplied: no


title: Letter to Col. N. Peabody [Philadelphia?]

namePart: Peabody, N.

namePart: Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of 12th ult., at Hartford; and since his return (on Nov. 2) of letters of Sept. and Oct. containing copies of Burgoyne's private letters to the Secretary of State, sundry pamphlets of the Journals of Congress, etc.; General Court has appointed S. Livermore and the delegates in Congress to press their claim to the New Hampshire grants west of the Connecticut; Peabody and Woodbury Langdon appointed delegates to Congress; Gen. Whipple and Gen. Folsom were appointed but have not yet accepted; Col. Samuel Folsom and Moses Nichols to be sent to the army to induce New Hampshire men to reënlist; difficulty in raising taxes and filling the requisitions of Congress; asks for Peabody's opinion as to the meeting at Hartford; proposed regulation of prices; depreciation of the currency; Committee of Safety ordered Robert Smith to arrest certain persons suspected of communicating with the enemy by means of a salt works near Cape Cod; warned by Colonel S. H -- t, they escaped; the Colonel was expelled from the Committee; rumors of the success of the French fleet; movements of the British from the Penobscot reported; a postscript of Nov. 6 speaks of the presence of Jesse Johnson and Dr. Hedges in town, and of their spending the evening before with the President, Mr. Dudly, and P. Bartlett.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of New Hampshire for £987 12s. 6d. payment for 197 days (from May 4 to Nov. 16, 1778) attendance in Congress, at 42s. a day, mileage and other expenses.


title: Document

namePart: Bellows, Benjamin

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate "that Edward Kyes was Mustered to serve as a Soldier in Colo [Hercules] Mooneys Regnt at Rhoad Island for the term of Six months from some time in the Month of August, 1779, for the Town of Acworth.".


title: Letter to [N.] Peabody

namePart: Blanchard, Jonathan

title: Letter to [N.] Peabody

abstracts: Has just arrived and found Mr. [Abiel?] Foster; tedious and expensive journey; dined with the President on that day, and on the following expects to be with Mr. Gerry and Mr. Osgood.


title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett, Philadelphia

namePart: Folsom, Nathaniel

title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett, Philadelphia

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of 6th inst., and the Philadelphia papers; requisition for raising a battalion for the Canada department ordered by the General Court; harmony in the American cause prevails; the vote for independence unanimous in both houses; a bounty of 40s. besides the price of £3 is to be given for all fire-arms manufactured in the Colony and delivered in one month, 30s. the second month, and 20s. the third.


title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

namePart: Foster, Abiel

title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of Jan. 23 informing him of his reappointment as delegate to Congress; regrets to learn of the illness of the President of New Hampshire; hears that the Legislature have passed the impost act; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia have done the same; Connecticut is in too great a pet with the commutation to comply at present; Rhode Island will be slow; Congress will probably adjourn in April; a committee of the States may possibly be left sitting, in which case Jonathan Blanchard will remain for New Hampshire.


title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

namePart: Frost, George

title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

abstracts: Jan. 24 he sent to the President [of N. H.] a warrant dated Jan. 23, on Esqr Gilman, from the Treasurer, for $50,000; committee of Congress [C. Carroll, F. Dane, N. Folsom, G. Morris, J. Reed] is now at camp to settle measures for the next campaign; a council of officers is said to have proposed to General Washington a plan of nominating general officers; it is also suggested that all soldiers take an oath of fidelity to their officers, that all officers not in actual service at the end of the war be settled with half-pay, and that officers widows be pensioned; 129 bales of woolens and linen arrived from France for the use of the troops; a merchant in London writes that public and private credit there is low, and bankrupcies frequent; subscriptions for the new loan come in slowly, the Dutch refusing to subscribe; bills are sold at 2 3/8% discount; the English hopes depend largely upon the present campaign.


title: Letter to the Board of Treasury, New York

namePart: Gilman, John Taylor

abstracts: Sends by his brother Nicholas his account for endorsing (in behalf of the United States) the bills issued by New Hampshire pursuant to the resolution of Mar. 18, 1780; would be glad to have the account closed.


title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

originInfo: 1791-11-11Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Gilman, Nicholas

title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of Oct. 25 recommending an applicant for the office of marshall; he expected a petition from the State to Congress asking that invalid non-commissioned officers and privates be put on the pension list; if the petition does not come, the individuals themselves must apply; difficulty in the matter of regulating the militia.


title: Letter to Nathaniel Shaw, Jr.

namePart: Shaw, Nathaniel Jr.

namePart: Langdon, John

title: Letter to Nathaniel Shaw, Jr.

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of 30th ult., by which he finds that Mr. [William?] Bingham had shipped to him by the "Irish Gimblet, Capn Lamb", gun carriages belonging to the cannon shipped to him by the sloop Washington, Captain Collins; but it is feared that Captain Collins has been captured and taken to Tortola; he has received no bill of lading for the gun carriages to be sent by Shaw's "Brigt"; it is just as well that they should remain in the hands of Shaw or of Captain Bradford.


title: Document

namePart: Langdon, Woodbury

title: Document

abstracts: Order on Lane, Son & Frazer, London, for £140, payable to Joseph Sherburne.


title: Letter to John Pickering, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire

namePart: Pickering, John

namePart: Livermore, Samuel

abstracts: Has received commission certifying his appointment to Congress; is now on his way to New York; regrets that he could not visit Portsmouth and so have taken part of the circuit of the Supreme Court in his way.


title: Letter to John Langdon, President of New Hampshire

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Long, Pierse

abstracts: Recommending Edward Dowse as surveyor of lands in the western territory; others who are suitable might decline to go so far abroad; he is in readiness to go when appointed; the surveyors are to meet at Fort Pitt, August 1.


title: Letter to the Selectmen of Salem

namePart: Peabody, Nathaniel

title: Letter to the Selectmen of Salem

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of 6th inst. informing him of his appointment to serve with Philip White and Lieutenant Edward Morse as referee in an action brought by Esq. Dow, Captain Dow, Mr. Woodman and one Fletcher against the town of Salem; at the same time they ask him not to accept the trust because of his opinions respecting civil government; in answer he says he has never concealed his belief as a citizen, that "tyranny in religion cannot long exist in Civil republics"; as a politician, that he has "no right to intermeddle with religious disputes any farther than shall be necessary to prevent a subversion of Civil Government, & to support the same"; as a divine, that he "ought not to intermeddle with the politics of a State that does not infringe the rights of conscience"; he therefore cheerfully accords with their intimation, and promises to decline the trust, if notified to attend the conference.


title: Letter to Brigadier General Hand, Wyoming

originInfo: 1779-06-10WyomingEaston, Pa.

namePart: Sullivan, John, 1740-1795

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letters of 6th & 7th inst; asks that the beef which appears to be bad may be repacked and pickled; from letters of Hand and Col. Courtland [Philip Van Cortlandt?] he judges the road must be nearly completed; asks for the latest intelligence with regard to it and to the arrival of the stores; upon them his advance to the Susquehanna and into the Indian country will largely depend.

place:
Wyoming
Easton, Pa.


title: Document

originInfo: 1786-03-03New Hampshire

namePart: New Hampshire. House of Representatives

title: Document

abstracts: Report of Committee on the petitions of sick and wounded officers and soldiers recommending that Josiah Powers be put on half-pay and enrolled as an invalid pensioner. Apparently in the handwriting of John Sullivan.


title: Document

namePart: Strafford County (N.H.)

title: Document

abstracts: Order of Ichabod Rollins, Judge of Probate Court of Strafford County, authorizing John Demerit and Solomon Emerson of Madbury, N. H., to appraise the estate of Ebenezer Demerit, on or before Sept. 11, 1776.


title: Letter to William Cranch, Exeter

namePart: Cranch, William

namePart: Wentworth, Joshua

title: Letter to William Cranch, Exeter

abstracts: Concerns the payment of a debt of Wentworth's to Mr. Atkinson.


title: Letter to [Joseph Whipple, Portsmouth, N. H.?]

originInfo: 1764-08-24Halifax, Nova Scotia

namePart: Whipple, Joseph

namePart: Whipple, William

abstracts: Has just arrived; introduced himself to "Mr. Secretary," Mr. Grant, the only person to whom he had a letter of introduction, being out of town; has also introduced himself to Mr. Jos. Gearrish; letters to confirm his pretensions would be very serviceable; the government he finds to be "very choice of their fishing lots," and he therefore fears he cannot get as much as he expected.


title: Letter to --

title: Letter to --

abstracts: Was not surprised to hear of the evacuation of Philadelphia; satisfaction with the firm conduct of Congress; rumor of a battle on June 28; he would wish to discourage privateering; it injures the regular service, and corrupts the people; it takes all the men; farmers must pay $30 or $40 per month for a laborer, or, near Portsmouth, $3 or $4 a day; this raises price of provisions, Indian Corn costing $6 a bushel; in some towns in New Hampshire the bounty for three or four months service in Rhode Island has been forced up to $400, exclusive of the grant from the State; the seamen are gone, most of them in Halifax jail; the navy is drained of officers and men.


title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

originInfo: 1783-01-09Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

namePart: White, Phillips

title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett

abstracts: Encloses a newspaper with an account of the evacuation of Charleston; no official account received yet, however; in Congress, the day before, propositions to sink the Continental bills at 40 to 1, and at 75 to 1 were voted down; members from States that have more than their quota objecting to a lower rate; some of the Southern delegates suggesting one much lower; regrets that New Hampshire has been trying to raise more men, for the State has more men in the army than its due proportion, and Congress is at a loss to pay those already on duty; a committee from the Northern army has just presented a memorial of the grievances of men and officers; Mr. [Robert] Morris has appointed Stephen Gorham, of Boston, commissioner on Continental accounts for New Hampshire, an appointment with which it is not possible to find fault.


title: Letter to John Langdon, Portsmouth [N. H.]

namePart: Wingate, Paine

abstracts: The Senate has just finished the bill for compensation of members and officials of Congress; pay for members stands as passed by the other house, mileage at 20 miles a day, and $7 instead of $6, after five years, for senators; he is mortified and discouraged at the extravagance; they had difficulty in striking out the provision allotting $2 a day for the Secretary and clerk; Morris gave notice he would move to reinstate the clause; pay of chaplain fixed at $400 a year.


title: Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts

abstracts: Sends, in response to order of the House, dated Jan. 14, his account of expenses while in Congress; cannot give all the particulars as he was obliged to leave his baggage, account-books, and receipts in care of a minister in Philadelphia [when Congress fled to Lancaster, September, 1777]; is sure no gentleman lived at smaller expense.


title: Letter to R. H. Lee

originInfo: 1777-07-15Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

namePart: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

title: Letter to R. H. Lee

abstracts: New Jersey is at length rid of the enemy; Adams thinks Howe's army should have been driven out earlier, by means of the militia; he wishes to see "more of an enterprizing Spirit in the Senate and the Field;" disapproves the appointment of General Schuyler to command in the Northern Department; contrasts his incompetency with the abilities of Gates who "is honest and true & has the Art of gaining the Love of his soldiers [more] especially because he is always present.".


title: Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Cambridge

namePart: Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814

title: Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Cambridge

abstracts: Introduces Major Thomas Melvil, Naval Officer for the port of Boston, who fears that Congress may supplant him in his office; asks Gerry to support him.


title: Letter to General Benjamin Lincoln

originInfo: 1787-02-26Boston, Mass.Boston, Mass.

namePart: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

namePart: Bowdoin, James

title: Letter to General Benjamin Lincoln

abstracts: Has laid his letter of 22d inst. before the General Court; will give him notice of their resolutions upon the subject mentioned; incloses the "Establishment for the Officers in the service of the Commonwealth.".


title: Letter to Samuel Holten [Philadelphia]

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Holten, Samuel

namePart: Cushing, Thomas

title: Letter to Samuel Holten [Philadelphia]

abstracts: Connecticut, he hears, has granted the impost duty to Congress as soon as any twelve states shall agree to the measure; he inquires how many states, and which ones, have passed the Impost Act; need of such an Act to support public securities; urges the pressing necessity of Joseph Pennell's settling the marine accounts in Boston; asks Holten's opinion as to his proposal to discount the £40 due from Massachusetts to Messrs. John DeNeufville and Son, merchants in Amsterdam, against the sum due him from the United States on his advances for the frigates he bought in 1776 and 1777.


title: Letter to Arthur Lee

namePart: Lee, Arthur

namePart: Dana, Francis

title: Letter to Arthur Lee

abstracts: Regrets that he could not use Lee's letter of introduction to Baron de Breteuil, French ambassador at Vienna; good understanding between Dana and "him who negociates the peace here [John Adams]"; has reason to think "that Court [Russia, to which he was accredited] favourably disposed towards us"; the maritime Powers need only good information to cause them to side with America; Edmund Jennings is to accompany him on his mission; rejoices to hear of the success of "Col. Lawrence's" [Col. John Laurens] negotiations at Versailles, and of the interception and capture by Piquet of 21 Dutch merchantmen sent from St. Eustatius to England, and of the results of the action between Greene and Cornwallis.


title: Letter to Alexander Hodgdon [Boston]

namePart: Hodgdon, Alexander

namePart: Dane, Nathan

title: Letter to Alexander Hodgdon [Boston]

abstracts: Has authorized Dr. [David?] Osgood to receive payment of a warrant he holds on the Treasury for £156 4s. due him as a member of Congress; asks Hodgdon to pay the sum in dollars if possible.


title: Letter to Samuel B. Gerry, Marblehead, Mass

namePart: Gerry, Samuel B.

abstracts: Has just arrived by land, the boats from New Haven and other points having sailed; the roads between Stamford and New York infested with robbers; for protection he bought a pair of pistols, and travelled in company of Mr. Tollingsby of Boston; intends to dine with General Carlton and then proceed to Princeton; the refugees are mostly embarked; some say their number will not be less than 20, 000; no news yet of the definitive treaty; nor any appearance of evacuation.


originInfo: 1788-05-02Suffield, Conn.

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Gorham, Nathaniel

abstracts: Informing him that Oliver Phelps and himself have purchased the right of preemption of the lands ceded by New York to Massachusetts; that Phelps sets off that day to complete the purchase with the Indians; and that they have no thought of treating for any lands but those included in the cession.


title: Letter to [Samuel Huntington] Governor of Connecticut

namePart: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

abstracts: Notifying him of the election of Nathaniel Gorham to the office of President of Congress, in place of John Hancock, resigned on account of illness.


title: Document

originInfo: 1776-07-11Philadelphia, Pa.

title: Document

abstracts: Calling General Schuyler's attention to necessity of protecting the northern frontiers; ordering him to erect forts at Oswego, Presque Isle, Le Bœuf, and Kittaning, and to build galleys for Lake Ontario; Commissioners of Indian affairs in the middle department [Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Walker, James Wilson] ordered to report as to the size of the naval force necessary to secure the navigation of Lake Erie; secrecy recommended.


title: Letter to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, Philadelphia

namePart: Higginson, Stephen

abstracts: Inquiring about a draught of Lincoln's found among the papers of the late Ellis Gray; it was for $30,769, dated Feb. 12, 1780, and payable to Julius Ferian & Co; July 24, 1780 it was presented for payment to John Gibson, and Gray received it during the winter.


title: Letter to [Nathaniel] Peabody [Exeter, N. H.?]

originInfo: 1780-06-30Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Peabody, Nathaniel

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of Peabody's letter from the hands of General Schuyler; will send a copy of the last returns; made by Dr. [William] Brown [Physician-General], on the medical men [of the hospital department]; the committee are considering who should join the southern army; doing all in their power to furnish medical stores; delays in raising men and supplies have been a misfortune to the country; General Lincoln desires an inquiry into his conduct as commander at Charleston; Artemas Ward and Samuel Adams have recently arrived [June 14 and June 29]; accordingly he will start for Boston soon.


title: Letter to David Leonard Barnes, Providence [R. I.]

namePart: Barnes, David Leonard

namePart: Jackson, Jonathan

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of Barnes's letter, which he has shown to the Corporation of Harvard College; it will meet their early attention.


title: Letter to [Samuel] Holten [Danvers, Mass.?]

namePart: King, Rufus

abstracts: Only five states represented in Congress as yet; when Pennsylvania and Connecticut arrive, a quorum will be present; he thinks it strange that Congress has no official information of the Algerian war; has heard that it was doubtful whether the General Court would "pass an act complying with the Requisition, because the affair of the old money" is unsettled; claims of other States are more important than those of Massachusetts; "whenever the last are settled, the Old Emission, & Penobscot, will be connected.".


title: Letter to James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts

originInfo: 1786-12-28Worcester, Mass.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Bowdoin, James

namePart: Lincoln, Levi

abstracts: Progress of the rebellion; at least 2000 insurgents in arms in Hampshire and Worcester counties; he asks for 2000 men, enlisted for three weeks or a month, and raised from the lower counties; outlines a plan of campaign; contributions must be raised for the support of the army; troops to be quartered on the inhabitants in the towns; states reasons in support of his plan; importance of acting vigorously and at once.


title: Letter to Samuel Holten [Danvers, Mass.]

namePart: Holten, Samuel

namePart: Lovell, James

abstracts: Sends an enclosure to Holten, for Mr. Shelden; prevalence of dysentery and other maladies; burial of the wife of President [Joseph] Reed; recent deaths of "Mr Brymner, the great Musician," of Mr Hodge, of "Fricket our Stationer, and Mons. Damon our Brussels newsmonger"; at present he is in Vermont "to buy some portion of that western World which the Big Knife pretends to give us.".


title: Letter to George Cabot, Beverly [Mass.]

namePart: Cabot, George

namePart: Lowell, John

title: Letter to George Cabot, Beverly [Mass.]

abstracts: Introduces Mr. [Jonathan?] Dwight, of Springfield.


title: Letter to Major General Benjamin Lincoln

originInfo: 1783-01-01Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

namePart: Osgood, Samuel

abstracts: The deputation [of Massachusetts in Congress] set off for Rhode Island but were soon recalled [to Philadelphia] because Virginia had repealed her act for an impost; it cost him $200 to prepare for the journey; the Secretary of Massachusetts has sent him an account of his draughts with a caution not to make them too frequent; the prospect of peace is better; the arrangement of the New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New Jersey lines is postponed to the first of March; Congress has done another wrong to Baron Steuben, having repealed all former allowances of extra pay, subsistence, forage, etc. and given him instead $300 per month; illness of [Nathaniel] Gorham and "Mr. Lovell" [John Lowell?].


title: Letter to Jonathan Dayton, Elizabethtown, N. J.

namePart: Dayton, Jonathan

namePart: Otis, Samuel Alleyne

abstracts: Incloses address to the President by the Senate; asks advice about putting his son in the academy at Elizabethtown of which Dayton is a trustee; has conversed with "E -- r"[Jonathan Elmer] upon New Jersey politics; "he is cautious & reserved.".


title: Document

originInfo: 1773-05-18Plymouth, Mass.

namePart: Rotch, Joseph

namePart: Rotch, Samuel

title: Document

abstracts: Petition to Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature at Plymouth for affirmation of judgment and costs amounting to £3 9s. 4d., given them by the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, April [6], 1773, against James Blankenship; which judgment he appealed to the Superior Court but failed to prosecute.


title: Letter to John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts

namePart: Hancock, John, 1737-1793

namePart: Partridge, George

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of notice of his election to Congress as representative from Plymouth and Barnstable; asks if acceptance would be inconsistent with the discharge of his duty as sheriff.


title: Letter to Philip Van Rensselaer, Albany, N. Y

originInfo: 1784-04-06Sheffield, Mass.

namePart: Rensselaer, Stephen Van

namePart: Sedgwick, Theodore

abstracts: On receipt of his letter, by Egleston, Sedgwick sent for Goodrich who proves to be willing to leave the farm but insists first on a settlement with Van Rensselaer; to remove him power of attorney expressly for that purpose would be necessary; Sedgwick encloses blank form to be filled out; present scarcity of cash and the rage for emigration make it difficult to sell land for anything near its value.


title: Letter to Alexander Hodgdon, Treasurer of Massachusetts, Boston

originInfo: 1787-07-30Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Hodgdon, Alexander

namePart: Strong, Caleb

abstracts: Is detained in that place as a deputy to the [Constitutional] Convention much longer than he expected; is in need of money; asks that payment be made on an order.


title: Letter to Dr. [William?] Smith, [Provost of the college of Philadelphia?]

namePart: Smith, William

namePart: Sullivan, James

abstracts: Thanking him for his letters on the subject of the north-eastern boundary; Sullivan had addressed him at the suggestion of Mr. [William?] Bingham; both letters maintain that the Schoodiac is the river intended by the treaty of 1783 as the St. Croix; in this he is mistaken; even if the piece of paper were pasted on Mitchell's map (of which fact the commissioners of 1783 have no recollection) that addition would still make the Magaguadavic the St. Croix; all maps, of Passamaquoddy Bay before 1787 call the easternmost of the two rivers emptying into it the St. Croix; Smith makes a mistake in his calculations from Lescarbot as to the position of De Monts's island; Sullivan is right in his statement that Bernard's survey was made in 1764, from Apr. 14 to June 30; Gov. Hutchinson's survey in 1770, under Gen. Brattle and Col. Royall, decided on the same river; so too that of Generals Lincoln and Knox in 1784; this statement is further supported by oaths of Indians; Charles Morris now acknowledges that his survey which gave the Cobscook as the St. Croix was erroneous; under the charter granted to Massachusetts by William and Mary grants of land have been made between the Kennebec and the St. Croix; all grants from the Crown before the Revolution, both within Nova Scotia and without, are vacated by an act of government; the limits of the ancient Acadia do not enter into the question; the English have made their claim to Nova Scotia on the grant to Sir William Alexander; they do not pretend, with Shirley and Mildway, that it ever extended west of the Schoodiac; nor does the Act of 1774 come into the question.


title: Letter to George Peirsons [Portland, Me.]

originInfo: 1793-02-27Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Peirsons, George

namePart: Thacher, George

abstracts: Has written William Taylor of Baltimore to the effect that a young friend of his in business at Portland wished to change from the grocery trade to "the English Goods-Business," suggesting also that Taylor's brother in London might ship his goods directly to Portland; encloses copies of the letters that passed between them on the subject; Taylor inquires about ship-building and the Portland fish industry; mentions flour as chief Baltimore export; other business matters.


title: Letter to Richard Devens, Commissary General, Boston

namePart: Devens, Richard

namePart: Wadsworth, Peleg

abstracts: Recommends the insertion of a clause in the late "Act for the more easy payment of all taxes previous to 1784," providing that lumber be received at the same rate in Portland as in Boston. In a postscript he suggests that red oak pipe staves be also added, at the same rate as white oak hogshead staves.


title: Letter to General [John] Thomas

originInfo: 1775-10-17Roxbury Camp

namePart: Thomas, John

namePart: Ward, Artemas

title: Letter to General [John] Thomas

abstracts: He is desired by General Washington to attend at headquarters on a certain matter of importance.


title: Letter to Welcome Arnold [Providence, R.I.]

originInfo: 1783-02-25Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Arnold, Welcome, 1744-1798

namePart: Arnold, Jonathan

abstracts: Thanks him for a loan of $200; Congress is intent on regulating finance, but has not yet got through the impost; he encloses in a letter to [Deputy] Governor Jabez Bowen the plan for obtaining a general estimate.


title: Letter to Welcome Arnold [Providence, R. I.]

namePart: Arnold, Peleg

abstracts: Sends Journal of Congress, from July 22 to Aug. 18, together with the resolution of Sept. 13.


title: Letter to Colonel [Henry?] Jackson, Warwick [R. I.]

originInfo: 1779-01-08Rehoboth, Mass.

namePart: Jackson, Henry

namePart: Bradford, William

abstracts: Certifies that Jesse Sanders, of Rehoboth, lately ordered to join his regiment, is in too ill health to perform his military duty.


title: Letter to [Welcome Arnold, Wm. Russell, and Nathan Green.]

namePart: Russell, William

namePart: Green, Nathan

namePart: Brown, John

abstracts: Captain Westcott has returned and is now able to give an account of his voyage in the Sally to Amsterdam; Brown wishes them to meet him, the underwriters, and Captain Westcott to settle certain disputed matters regarding the guns, the loss of the cable, the failure of the Captain to protest on his arrival, and his going ashore on the Texel; also that Messrs [Joseph and Samuel?] Nightengale be likewise notified.


title: Letter to Christopher G[rant] Champlin [Philadelphia]

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Champlin, Christopher Grant

namePart: Champlin, George

abstracts: Sees by the papers that the motion for repeal of the Stamp Act was disposed of before the return of his correspondent to Philadelphia; presumes that [Matthew] Lyon has been expelled from the house and sent to Vermont, and that the dispute over foreign intercourse is ended; the General Assembly has finished revising the laws; if buoys are to be placed in the harbor he thinks I. Boss would do it well; commerce is almost suspended in expectation of news from abroad; if any accounts from the commissioner at Paris have been received, he will be glad to hear of them; thinks that [Roger] Griswold will be placed in an embarassing situation if Lyon, "that beast," is not expelled.


title: Letter to [Samuel Huntington]

namePart: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

namePart: Rhode Island. Governor

title: Letter to [Samuel Huntington]

abstracts: Governor of Connecticut. Transmitting a resolution of the state legislature, passed at the last session.


title: Letter to President [Joseph] Reed [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1781-03-20Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: United States. War Department

abstracts: Acknowledging receipt of his letter of Mar. 19; his ideas on the subject of clothing coincide with those of the department; the returns will be made out according to his request.


title: Letter to [Benjamin or Christopher Ellery, Newport, R. I.?]

originInfo: 1782-03-25Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Ellery, Benjamin

namePart: Ellery, Christopher

namePart: Ellery, William

abstracts: Sends him, enclosed in a letter to Joseph Clark, part of the interest on a South Carolina and a [Pennsylvania] certificate.


title: Document

namePart: Rhode Island, Colony

title: Document

abstracts: Order on Thomas Richardson, Treasurer, for £650, payable to [John Gardner,] Deputy Governor, for soldiers' wages and billeting.


title: Letter to John Congdon, North Kingstown, B. Neck

originInfo: 1792-12-12North Kingstown, R.I.

namePart: Congdon, John

namePart: Gardner, Silvester

abstracts: Requesting him to send by bearer, Eldred Gardner, three cheeses which will be discounted on a note of hand of Congdon's, now held by Gardner.


title: Letter to John Haggerdon, South Kingston, R. I

originInfo: 1811-05-16Benton, Ontario County, N.Y.

namePart: Haggerdon, John

namePart: Hazard, Jonathan J.

abstracts: Had intended to come down to the April court, but was unable because of a fall from his horse, and the canker; asks for information as to "how that case of Jon H. Hazard G. Perry stand.".


title: Letter to Ebenezer Thompson

namePart: Thompson, Ebenezer

namePart: Rhode Island. Council of War

title: Letter to Ebenezer Thompson

abstracts: They hear that New Hampshire has passed an act regulating prices; hope it will be carried out; their own regulations are pretty well adhered to, though some selfish persons have discontinued selling their goods; others who ventured to sell higher than at the stipulated prices have compounded with the buyers, or have been fined, or at present have suits pending against them; the measure is obviously necessary, and will be effective if carried out by neighboring states; they have also heard that New Hampshire continues to give a bounty of £20 to recruits; ask to be informed about this, and request a copy of the Act regulating prices; a fleet of thirteen sail has arrived at Newport, which they take to be the ships they sent to Long Island for wood; report from Long Island is that troops are embarking there on board of fourteen transports.


title: Letter to William Ellery, Newport, R. I

originInfo: 1782-08-10Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Howell, David

title: Letter to William Ellery, Newport, R. I

abstracts: Sends newspaper containing the letter of Carleton and Digby to General Washington; finds it difficult, as a new member, to take up the business of Congress; letter from General Washington informs them of an embarkation of British troops at New York, probably for Charleston; the resolution concerning the German prisoners is being carried into effect; act for establishing a Supreme Court of Appeals in maritime cases has not had a third reading; he favors Marshall for the vacant seat; Jay has sent an account of his negotiations at Madrid; he is going to Paris; Adams and Laurens may have joined him and Dr. Franklin there; the British have made some advances for peace; is pleased to hear that he has breakfasted with Washington, because his enemies believe that he had been one of the intriguers against Washington; the completion of the Dutch treaty is expected; refers him to Joseph Brown of Providence for the account of the wooden still he inquired about.


title: Letter to Robert Carter, Westmoreland Co.,Va

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Carter, Robert

namePart: Manning, James

abstracts: Carter's two sons, John T. and George, who have just returned from the care of Brother Williams at Wrentham, are well; the pig–iron which was to have been shipped from Baltimore is probably lost through the failure of John Tilling -- hast; he has written to Mr. Lemmon to try to recover the property; his sorrow at Tillinghast's failure.


title: Letter to George Simpson [Philadelphia]

namePart: Simpson, George

namePart: Marchant, Henry

title: Letter to George Simpson [Philadelphia]

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of note for $200, salary due him.


title: Letter to Mr. Arnold

namePart: Arnold

namePart: Miller, Nathan

title: Letter to Mr. Arnold

abstracts: Promises to pay a sum of money due, as soon as he can collect it.


title: Document

namePart: Mowry, Daniel

title: Document

abstracts: Warrant for the arrest of Thomas K[n]ight of Scituate for trial on Sept. 28 at the house of Colonel Resolved Waterman in Smith -- field, in an action brought by Andrew Waterman of Smithfield for non–payment of a note dated June 15, 1770, for £1 19s. 6d., principal and interest at present amounting to £2.


title: Document

namePart: Osgood, Christopher

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of Christopher Osgood of Brattleborough, Vt., at an examination before Paul Mumford, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Rhode Island, with reference to communications between Chief Justice Smith of New York and certain Americans, and to illegal traffic in British goods. Narrates that in April he carried and delivered a letter from Luke Knowlton, of Newfane, [Vt.,] to New York for William Smith, formerly Chief Justice of the colony; returning in June he brought an unaddressed letter from Smith to Knowlton; in August he was again sent by Knowlton with a letter to Smith from Samuel Wells of Brattleborough [Vt.], returning with an unaddressed letter from Secretary Morgan to Wells; statement of his expenses and of his pay; the first letter, he was told, was brought from Canada by Solomon Ball, the second by Shadrach Ball, both letters he supposes were from Governor Haldimand; in June, one Clarke of Upper Cohors told him he also had been sent to New York; at New York Osgood saw Colonel Norton of Martha's Vineyard, John Taylor of Northborough, Leve Thayer of Milford, Ezra Jones of Worcester, William Prentice of Boston, and Samuel Stevens of Charleston, N. H.; Thayer, Taylor, Norton, and a fourth person, he learned from the first two, had purchased a brig and were to be protected by armed vessels in transporting her cargo to Vineyard Sound; in return, Captain Gooldsbury of Lloyd's Neck was to furnish them with cattle; Thayer and Taylor were to furnish Abijah Williams of New York, formerly of Massachusetts, with cattle; James Richardson of Leominster, Mass., tried to obtain goods in return for cattle, but failed.


title: Document

originInfo: 1781-02-23South Kingston

namePart: Rhode Island. Governor

title: Document

abstracts: Warrant for arrest of William Dyer, Jr., and Paul Brumbly charged with illegal importation of goods owned by Joshua Randall, William Dyer, Jr., -- Franklin, James Cottrel, John Lane?, John Lamphere?, Daniel Stafford, and I. Halsey.


title: Document

namePart: Rhode Island (Colony). Court of Common Pleas

title: Document

abstracts: Transcripts from court records of motion by John Cole, attorney for Ephraim Bowen, executor of estate of John Mawney, deceased, for suit against John Mawney, son of the deceased, for £700, moneys expended in settling the estate; of petition of John Mawney, a minor, for the appointment of a guardian; of petition of James Mitchell Varnum, guardian of John Mawney, to imparl one term for preparation of his case; notice of the granting of his petition.


title: Letter to "friend Tom."

originInfo: 1773-10Westerly, R.I.

namePart: Ward, Samuel

title: Letter to "friend Tom."

abstracts: Complains of formality in letter-writing; banters him about his last letter.


title: Letter to [the Convention of New York.]

originInfo: 1776-07-22Litchfield, Conn.

namePart: Litchfield (Conn.). Town Committee

title: Letter to [the Convention of New York.]

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt, from Abraham De Peyster, of letter of 18th inst., and of twelve prisoners to be confined in their jail; they are willing to aid New York as much as possible, but at present their jail is overcrowded, over forty-six prisoners being confined in two rooms; they will receive the New York prisoners for the present, but request their speedy removal; De Peyster has placed the Mayor of New York [David Mathews] in private lodgings.