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I have your favors 3 Oct & 25 Novr since I had the pleasure of writing you the 28 Decr
Wheat is now fixed at 7/ pr Bushel & if any alteration it will be for the better. Flour 17/ d 19/ ー Indian Corn 3/9. Messrs Hewes & Co wrote me that they expected a Cargo very soon from you, & I gave them our prices. I suppose I shall have her here, as the best American wheat sells there from 50...
Date: 17 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen This Vessel is in the Road waiting. I have therefore only time to say, that I have this moment reced a Letter from London, mentioning, that in a debate last friday [January 20] in the House of Lords on Lord Chatham's Motion to withdraw the Troops from Boston as a conciliatory Step ー The Ministry declared, through Lord Suffolk, that they are determined to embrace no conciliatory...
Date: 22 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you a few Lines to give you the melancholy News of the designs of Ministry to persist in their foolish and wicked Attempts against America the Wind having ever since detained this Vessel I am enabled to acknowledge the receipts of your favors of 10.21 & 21 Decr The Insurance was made agreable to your orders. The Friendship does not yet appear. I shall pay due Honour to your Bill to...
Date: 31 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since I wrote you this morning I have an Account of the Ship Friendships arrival in our River; I have not yet seen Capn Young but expect him up every momentー
I am with great Esteem Gentlemen [&c.]
Date: 31 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My last was 31 Jany Since which I have your favor of 31 Decr The remittance to Messrs Wombwells shall be soon made agreable to your directions.
I am just return'd from London after having had the pleasure of seeing Mr [Edmund] Burke confirm'd in his Seat by the Committee of Elections. The most unwearied pains has been taken by that Gentleman in defence of America against the violent Measures now...
Date: 24 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Last was 24 Ulto Since I have none of your favours. The News from New York, since strengthend by the Testimony of the Quakers in your Province, leave no doubt with most people (of which I confess myself to be one of the number) of the Submission of all America to the present System of Government in this Kingdom. It is a pity, that these Circumstances had not been duly considered, before the...
Date: 6 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have just now reced the enclosed Resolution from London, which Mr [Edmund] Burke made the 22d Instant in the House of Commons. He spoke for two hours & a half in the most masterly manner. A Speech which never was excelled within those Walls.2 I send this to the Road therefore cannot farther enlarge than that the resolution passed as usual in the negative by a very great majority...
Date: 24 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the other side is Copy of my last. I sent you also a few Lines by Cn Clark via New York enclosing Copy of the Resolutions moved for by Mr [Edmund] Burke last Wensday but with the usual Success. The Ministry carrying it against him by a great Majority. How they could put a negative upon Resolutions which are in themselves incontestible, how they could say that the Colonies did not raise...
Date: 26 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Last was 26 Ultimo since I have your favour 22 feby Your Opinion about the Quantities of Wheat and Flour sent here is just, & the price has been supported tolerably, though it might have been kept up at 7/. however considering the variety of hands it was in, it was better than expected, especially as many were eager to sell, & some was actually sold at 6/7½; however the steadiness of...
Date: 15 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Last was 15 April Since I have your favors 30 March & 11 April. I was in hopes to have been able to have rendered your Sales & Acct Current of the Wheat, but the quantities on hand have prevented the people taking away, so that the Warehouses are not yet cleared, which is the occassion of my not being able to settle the Account ー They promise me it will be cleared away soon.
Wheat,...
Date: 7 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The various Conveyances by which I wrote you with Accounts &c arrived, I hope safe, though I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you. I have the greatest hopes of it, because they were sent, before this unnatural War had arisen to the heighth which wholly has separated this Country from yours, and deprived us of an Empire, which was our Glory and our Boast. May God grant that the...
Date: 5 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I enclose you a Copy of the Bill which Mr [Edmund] Burke intended to have introduced into the House, as a ground of reconciliation. I also send you an imperfect abstract of what he said, and even not yet concluded, but you will see the ground which the Friends of American have taken by it. I wish it had been more perfect, but such is the dislike the present Ministry have to their Debates being...
Date: 17 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
This News may be depended upon ー
The Government do not intend to make their grand Armament at Boston. They will only reinforce the Army there, so as to enable them to maintain their ground, if the Provincials do not carry the place this winter.
The whole force is to 26000 Men including those now in America and three Regiments of Scotch Dutch, who are to come over in the Spring from Holland, and...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3