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By order of our Provincial Congress wch is now sitting we inclose you a Copy of a letter from General [Thomas] Gage to the Governor of your Colony.2 It was transmitted to this Town to be sent from hence to Mr [Josiah] Martin which gave us an Opportunity of Interceptg it We trust you will use it with discretion and not make it public without you shall Deem it absolutely necessary as it...
Date: 6 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Tuesday the 4th ult. the British fleet, consisting of ten ships of war and thirty transports, appeared off our bar. So formidable an armament would have alarmed us had we not been conscious of the justice of our cause, but trusting that the Almighty would support and protect us in this glorious struggle for liberty, the most righteous of all contests, we were resolved to make the most vigorous...
Date: 3 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since I had the honor of writing to Your Lordship by The Duke of Cumberland Packet nothing of great moment, or out of the common course of things has occurred, with regard to the Province of No Carolina, except the withdrawing of the Fleet and Army from thence on the 31st day of May; a measure which was taken on the manifold considerations, that the Army was not then all arrived, that the season...
Date: 5 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have the pleasure to tell you that I am now much better than I was on the 28th of June; that day I was in a shocking condition in an engagement with the rebels. I shall now send you a true account just as it was. We fell down in company with the Experiment, of 50 guns, the Solebay and Active frigates of 28 guns each. As soon as we brought up to Sulivan's fort leading up to Charlestown, we then...
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5