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Sir After I had left you in Birmingham in October last I had reason to apprehend the people of this as well as of 12 other Colonies on this Continent would voluntarily debar themselves of the benefit of Importing Goods from Great Britain until those oppressive Acts of Parliament which were passed by the late House Should be repealed & therefore I delayed any directions for the investiture of...
Date: 17 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
The Wines are Safely landed in good Order The Quality of No 3 I am Sencable is very Indifferent & doubt not in the Least it will prove Vinegar in the Course of a Hott Summer tho I shall do the Utmost to save & dispose of it at any Rate, As to the others there is a Judgeing being so thick, I have taken your Advice to fine. down 3 Pipes ー Information Relative to a Plantation I shall write...
Date: 2 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the 9th Inst the Inhabitants of Charles Town are to meet in order to chuse a Committee of thirty to whom on the 11th the Country Committee are to be united & the whole will then proceed to the choice of Delegates to represent this Colony in general Congress of the United Colonies at Philadelphia the 10th of May next ー mean time the Subsisting Committee exert themselves in the Duties of...
Date: 4 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You will expect me to Say a word on our public affairs in which perhaps all Europe may eventually be concerned
On the 11th Inst there will be a meeting on this ground of Members elected in each district of the Province 120 in the whole ー these are to Nominate Delegates to Represent So Carolina at a Second general Congress intended to be holden at Philadelphia the 10th May next ー You have Seen the...
Date: 4 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Dear Son I wrote to you the 4th. Inst. p L Despenser & 8th p Capt. Mattocs to which please to referー
On the 11th all the deputies from the Several parishes & districts in this province except a very few who were unable to attend, met in General provincial Congress at Pike's long Room where C[harles] Pinckney was called to the Chair & Election adjusted ー thence we adjourned to the...
Date: 18 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Georgia has not fully acceded to the general Continental Association, therefore our provincial Committee have Resolved to cut off all dealing & intercourse with the Inhabitants, except only such as may be unavoidable by persons who reside here & have plantations, or debts due to them, in that province . . .
Since the 1st Inst we have had three importations of Merchandize in so many...
Date: 18 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This Instant I Received your favor p Capn Craig, and find you had made Insurance, on the 6 Pipes of Wine wh naturally Augments the Price, But as I am convinced your Intentions where for my Intrist in covering them you have my thanksー
Sorry that the Wines tum out so Indifferant, I cant git the first Cost owing to their Indifferent Quallity, As to the Pipe Referd to for help of Brandy, All that Mr...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Monday last [March 6] his Majesty's sloop Tamer, commanded by Capt. [Edward] Thornborough, fell down into Rebel[lion] Road, where she remains.
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Tuesday [March 14] Mr. Robert Smyth, Merchant, Master Smyth, his son, and Master Ward son of John Ward, Esq, returned here from London, in the snow Proteus, Capt. Papley, having touched at Falmouth and St. Christopher's by the Way.
The said Vessel having on board (besides 7 Cases of Merchandise, said to be Globes and mathematical Instruments consigned to Mr. Robert Wells, 1 hogshead, 1...
Date: 20 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, The General Committee thinking it of the highest Importance that the Committees in the interior Parts of the Colony, and that, through them, the People at large, should from Time to Time be informed of all such Affairs and Transactions as have any Relation to the American Cause; they have for the Management of so necessary a Service nominated a Committee of Intelligence.
We are very...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the 8th of March Bill passed the House of Commons, restraining the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, from fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland; and from exporting to any Part of the World, but to "Great-Britain, or some of the British Islands in the West Indies." Thus, as these four Provinces have by the American Association contracted not to export...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You may or may not have heard ere this shall reache you that the Sword of Civil War was drawn in the environs of Boston on the 19th April, there is no doubt of the fact but the Accounts which we have received are not clear . . . the New England Account will appear in the in closed paper perhaps you have a more perfect one ー if the Ministry will allow any thing like truth to be publishedー
the...
Date: 9 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You will have heard before this reaches you of the "actual commencement of Hostilities" in New England against the Inhabitants by the Kings Troops & more particulars of the Action of the 19th April than we yet know of in this Country ー the Associated Colonies have taken the alarm & but three days ago I put the Question "is it your pleasure Gentlemen to agree with your Committee"? when the...
Date: 15 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I did myself the honor of writing You the 1st of this month, when I took the liberty of giving Your Lordship the best account in my power of the present state of this Province: every day's experience convinces me more and more of the justice of the observations I then made, nor have I one word to retract of what I wrote.
The Lieutenant Governor after adjourning the Assembly to the 1st of June,...
Date: 16 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You think that no Man in England would be better pleased to See a Speedy conclusion of the Subsisting Contest without bloodShed than Lord North ー if his Lordship had ever expressed Such Sentiments I Should have thought him a Shallow politician ー his actions militated against his wishes ー Send out the most arbitrary & cruel Mandates that ever were imposed upon Freemen, Send Fleets & Armies...
Date: 22 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
the General Committee have Resolved to stop exportation of Indian Corn & of Rice, excepting completing the Cargoes of Vessels the Ladjng of which were actually begun before the 24th. Inst. ー the Rumour of a design to Stop all the Vessels has Spurred Carling to get away without delay ー the Brigt Esther Capt Hastope with 8000 bushels of Salt on board will return with her Cargo to her Owners in...
Date: 26 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I did myself the Honor of writing to Your Lordship by the Packet Boat the Le Despencer about the middle of last month;2 and a safe opportunity by a private hand this day offering, I beg leave to acquaint Your Lordship that the Assembly met last Thursday the 1st instant, passed their Tax Bill, which they had ready prepared, and without sending it to the Council, or using any other...
Date: 3 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You will be anxious to know our proceedings in Provincial Congress I shall inform you as fully as time will permit.
The Congress has sat daily from the first day of this Month; so diligent have we been that have I thought my Self fortunate by an adjournment for two or three Hours after Sitting about five in one Spot Some times I have not been relieved in Seven & an half2 ー I wish...
Date: 8 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
June 1775
Saturdy 17
Moord off Charles Town
Modt and fair Weather at 4 A M discover'd the Rebels throwing up a Redoubt on a Hill at the Back of Charles Town2 Began to fire upon them as did the Battery of [sic, on] Copps Hill at 8 Unmoor'd & run down aBreast of Winesimet Ferry & Moor'd at 11 the Troops landed at Charles Town ー a Continual fireing kept between both Armys at 2...
Date: 17 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
the Militia were turned out in order to receive Lord Wm Campbell who arrived yesterday Evening having been detained off the Bar [due] to the loss of one Tide until the restraint upon Pilots was taken off, which we could not effect without Some opposition & even a Question ー his Lordship was received by the Grenadier Company at his Landing escorted by them in front of the common Militia, the...
Date: 18 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1