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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
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
I beg leave by your means to acquaint the Committee that as I have submitted to be their prisoner to avoid all possibility of giving them offence I have order'd those few arms I possess (which are only such as Gentlemen generally have to protect them from Insult) on board the Tamar.ー
If I have acted in this matter differently from any other Gentleman it does not proceed from the least wish to...
Date: 2 September 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I did myself the honor to write to your Excellency by Colo. Kirkland some time ago; and at the same time sent all the packets that came by the two preceding Mails. I now convey to your Excellency those brought by Pond, & am at the same time to beg a thousand pardons for the liberty I took in opening your News papers, as by some neglect Lord Williams2 were not sent and in our...
Date: 15 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear Penman I wrote you a long letter some time ago by the post, & a very few days after, because I did not chuse to be disarmed by a couple of rascals sent by the Committee, a Letter de Cachet was issued by that august body and signed by your old friend Peter Timothy, by which I was order'd to quit the Province in 24 hours, the time was enlarged to four days, & I took refuge under the...
Date: 15 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2