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This Province has been tolerably quiet since I arrived ー Before that, they had in one or two Instances been second (I think) in Violent Measures to Boston ー The Spirit of [Res]istence against the Tea Act or any Mode of internal Taxation is as strong & universal here as ever. I firmly believe that they will undergo any Hardships sooner than acknowledge a Right in the British Parlt. in that...
Date: 30 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
You must not be angry with me for (at this Time) being apparently negligent in my Intelligence to Lord Dartmouth, for it is impossible to give any positive Intelligence or Information on Affairs here. We are at this Time, as You will judge by the inclosed, in a State of thorough Confusion. I had set apart Wednesday, Yesterday, and this Day (Friday) for writing fully on the Affairs of this Country...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have the Honor of acknowledging the Receipt of your Lordships circular Letter of the 3rd March, and the Parliamentary Resolves and shall do all in my Power to promote in this Province the much to be desired End therein recommended to my Attention. Sorry I am, my Lord, to see a continuance of this unnatural Dissension betwixt Great Britain and Her Colonies ー but the Time is not far distant, I...
Date: 5 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen I was informed in the Country and in Town since my Return, that a very unhappy Outrage has been lately committed by burning a Vessel in West River, within your District, and destroying, and plundering her Cargoe.
I wish to have the best Information on this Matter, & therefore Apply to You, as in your Department you may be able to give it. Reports are so indistinct that I know not...
Date: 12 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Communication of Intelligence, of any sort indeed, from America to England, as must be well known by your Lordship being so difficult ー I hope I stand in need of no further Apology for not having wrote oftener, than adding that, 'till lately, I have had nothing material from this Province to communicate, which was not in common with what regarded the proceedings of the Continental Congress,...
Date: 27 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On a perusal of the address to me yesterday,2 don't find it requires any answer; not do I understand that any was expected. Anything I could say might be thought too little here, and would be thought too much elsewhere. I just trouble you with this to mention a circumstance or two that have occurred to me, to which some attention may prevent disagreeable occurrences.
I am going to send...
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received this morning your letter of the 19th, with an Annexed declaration and Assurance that any Flag sent for you, and your Effects shall be received with the respect due to it
Commodore Hamond's Inclination to render any Service in his Power to any of His Majesty's Officers in your Situation; has induced him to order a flag to be sent on Shore for you on Monday or Tuesday next; And you shall...
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Governor Eden arrived in London from Maryland, but last from Virginia, which he left on the 6th of August. He came in a transport.
Baltimore is fortified with 60 pieces of cannon, 9 pounders. Almost every town is fortified.
The Virginia convention desired the Maryland convention to seize the person of Governor Eden. The Continental Congress requested they would send him to them. Instead of...
Date: 2 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This will be delivered to your Lordship by my particular Freind the Recd Mr [Jonathan] Boucher,2 whom I took the Liberty of mentioning in the most favourable Terms in my last ー should that, by any Accident, which I scarcely apprehend, being in a very good Ship, never arrive, Mr Boucher, from having long been occasionally, a confidential Secretary to me, as well as from his own...
Date: 9 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
[I] refer Your Lordship to my Information by the Choptank Frigate, since whose Sailing nothing extraordinary has happened here, except that, in Consequence of a Pilot Boat belonging to this City having been seized, for having Swivels on board, & other Causes, by the King-Fisher, about ten days ago, at the Capes, Some few, but a very few, of the most violent here, made at Attempt, on Wednesday...
Date: 1 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Delegates (of Maryland) in provincial Convention, as they state themselves, having entered into some Resolves, of which I have procured Copies, I think it incumbent upon me to transmit them to your Lordship as spedily as possible, and therefore send this Packet by Express to New York, in hopes that it will arrive safely there, and be forwarded thence, there being no opportunity of a...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3