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at which a committee confining of the Select-Men,
were chosen to wait upon General Gage, in order
to get permission for the inhabitants to remove out
of town with their effects. After foipe confutati
on, we are told, the General covenanted with
them that if the inhabitants of Boston would
give up their arms and ammunition, and not as
sist against the King's troops, they should immedi
ately be permitted to depart with all their effects,
merchandize included; finally, the inhabitants gave
up their arms and ammunition to the care of the
SelcCt-Men : the General then set a guard over the
arms, &c. and on Friday last some of the inhabi
tants were permitted to go out with their effeXs, in
cluding merchandize: On Saturday they weie pro
hibited from carrying out a^y merchandize what
ever. After this, they were flopped again, owing
it is said, to a dispute between Admiral Graves,
and General Gage; as some families had eroded
the ferry with their effects the Admiral infilled they
should not be allowed so to do without his perraif
fion; how the matter was fettled, we know net.
After this, the inhabitants were again allowed to
comeout, but not without a permit. In short ? ac
cording to the present method, (General Gage act
ing contrary to his engagement) the inhabitants
cannot possibly get out of Bolton under five or fix
months. His intention is no doubt to divert cur
army till the arrival of more troops. During this
time, no provisions are allowed to be brought in,
and the inhabitants fuffering the greatest distress,
thousands of women and children are almost drove
to despair. Salt pork fold for eleven pence fberling
the pound, and freffi at nine pence.
At a meeting of this town on Monday last, it was
unanimously voted, that a company confiding of
50 men be immediately raised and equiped, in ad
dition to the number now in the army, to hold
themselves in readihefs to march on .he firlt notice
to the assistance of their townsmen and fellow coun
trymen, at Cambridge, &c. about forty of those
who were present inlilted without the lealt hefitati
• on. This laudable example of the town, is finely
worthy imitation, and we doubt not will be fol
lowed by all the towns in the province, as all have
the good of their country at heart.
Ina London paper of the 13th of January, is the
following paragraph. " The King has been pleas
ed to grant to Governor Hutchinson and his daugh
ter a salary of pool. each."
NEW - YOR K, May 4.
We hear that the post, having been interrupted,
the Post-Master, (who has hitherto, without legal
authority, been appointed from home, and as a con
veniency, permitted here unquestioned) has dis
charged the riders, the expence of which he has no
longer a fund to fu port. An office for this neces
sary business, will doubtless be put under proper
regulations by the Continental Congress, and no
more be permitted to return to the rapacious hands
of unauthorized intruders. Since it would be the
mod contemptible pusillanimity to fuffer a revenue
to be raised from our property, to defray the expence
of cutting our throats! We hear Mr. William
Goddard, who has been a great fufferer, with many
others, by the mal-praftices, of an illegal holder of
this office, is now on a journey to the eastward, in
order to put the business under proper regulations
to be laid before the congress.
On Monday last the general Committee was re
formed and enlarged to 100 members, the names of
whom we have not now room to insert. The whole
city and province are fubferibing an association,
forming companies, learning the military cxercife,
and taking every method to defend our rights. The
like spirit prerails in the province of New-Jersey,
where a large and well disciplined militia are now
fit for adion. All the other Colonies, we hear, are
equally well prepared.
Yesterday arrived the Brig Fair Lady, Capt.
James Robinson, in 35 days from Lisbon---The day
he failed, a packet arrived there in 6 days from Fal
mouth, the Captain of which told him, that orders
had been sent to Portsmouth, &c. to flop the failing
of all the Ships of War and Transports, destined
for Boston, New-York, &c.
John Sullivan, and John Langdon, Efqrs. set out
this day for Philadelphia, Delegates from New-
Hampihire.
The following Association was set on Foot here last
Saturday, and has been transmitted for signing,
to all the Counties in the Province, and signed
by mod of the Men of this City.
y^ERSUADED that the Salvation of the Rights
L and Liberties of America, depend, under God,
on the firm Union of its Inhabitants, in a vigorous
Prosecution of the Measures nedeffary for its fafety,
and convinced of the Necessity of preventing the
Anarchy and Confufion which attend a Dissolution
of the Powers of Government :-- -WE, the Free
men, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the City and
County of New-York, being grealy alarmed at the
avowed Design of the Ministry to raise a Revenue
in America, and Blocked by the bloody Scene now
a&ing in the Massachusetts Bay; DO, in the most
solemn Manner, resolve never to become slaves;
and do associate under all the Ties of Religion,
Honor, and Love to our Country, to adopt, and
endeavour to carry into execution, whatever mea
sures may be recommended by the Continental Con
gress or reformed upon by our Provincial Conventi
on, for the Purpose of preserving our Confutation,
and opposing the Execution of the several arbitrary
and oppressive Ads of the British Parliament, until a
Reconciliation between Great- Britain and America,
on Confritutional Principles, (which we most ar
dently desire) can be obtained ;--.and that we will,
in all Things, follow the Advice of our General
Committee fefpe&ing the P,'urpofes aforefaid, the
Preservation of Peace and good Order, and the
Safety of Individuals, and private Property.
Dated in New-York, April and May 1775.
HARTFORD, May 8.
Lafl Saturday,the General Assembly of this Colony ended
the Seffon.--- During the Sefton, an Aid was puffed far
immediately railing arid paying 6oqo effective men, for
the defence oft.be Colony, &c.
We hear from Schohary, in the county of Tryon,
in the province of New-York, that the committee
men for that place had collected 700 fkiples of
wheat, equal to 525 bushels, for the relief of the
fufferers in the towns of Boston and Charleftown,
which is on its way thither.
We also hear that the Senecas, one of the Six
Nations of Indians, are determined to support the
Americans, against the arbitrary exactions of the
British parliament, and if desired, will lend their
help in this day of trouble and distress, expelling
if the colonies are fubjeded, they shall also fall a
facrifice to the relentless fury of Great-Britain.
We have the Pleasure to acquaint the Public that
a constitutional Poff-Office is now riling on the Ru
ins of the parliamentary One, which is just expiring
in Convulsions. Mr. William Goddard, en
couraged by the Friends ofLiberty at New-York,
hath engaged a faithful Rider to proceed from Mr.
John Holt's Office on Thursday next, with the
EafternMails for Philadelphia, and Colonies South
ward. . That Gentleman is arrived here, and will
proceed this Day for the Provincial Congress at
Watertown, and the Camp near Boston, in order to
complete the important Business of his Jouiney,
having had the Satisfaction of feeing Constitutional
Posts and Poft-Maflers established in every considera
ble Town which he hath visited. The patriotic
Conduct of the General Assembly of this Colony
hath greatly contributed to the Success of Mr,
Goddard's Enterprise ; and it is not doubted but
the Institution will be patronized and properly re
gulated by the Continental Congress. Several of
the oldPoft-Mafters have resigned their Appointments
and engaged on the new Plan ; and others MAY
follow their Example. Mess. Peets and Hurd are
also employed as Riders in the Service of their Country.
At a General Assembly of the Governor and Com
pany of the Colony of Connecticut, holden at
Hartford, by special Order of his Honour the Go-
A true Copy of Record, Examin d,
By George Wyllys, Sec'ry.
Copy of the Philadelphia Association.
tf HEREAS it appears from authentic Accounts
received from England, that it is the Design
of the present Ministry, to enforce the late unjust
and cruel Ads of Parliament complained of in the
most legal and dutiful Manner by the CONGRESS ;
and, whereas an additional Number of Troops,
with a Fleet, have been ordered for AMERICA, to
aflift the Troops now in BOSTON in the Execution
of the said Afls ; We, the Subferibers, agree, That
we will ASSOCIATE for the Purpose of learning
the Military Exercise, and for defending our PRO
PERTY andLIVES, against all Attempts to deprive
us of them.
vernor, on the 26th Day of April, A. D. 1775.
Considering the dark and gloomy AfpeX of Di
vine Providence, over this Colony and Land,and
that it is the indifpenfible Duty of every People
fuffering under the Afflictive Chastisements of a
righteous God, with deep Repentance, Supplica
tion and Amendment of Life, to endeavour byall
the ways which God has prescribed to avert his
Anger, and incline him to become reconciled to
his People.
IT is therefore Resolved by this Assembly, that it
be recommended to all the Ministers of the Gos
pel in this Colony, that they earnestly endeavour to
dissuade their several Congregations, from all Excess
and all Diversions, which may be improper in the
present Day of Distress; and that both they and
their people cry mightily unto God, that he would
be pleased to spare his People, and be gracious un
to them, and visit them with bis loving Kindness
and tender Mercies, and not give up his Heritage to
Reproach; but preserve unto them their great and
important Rights and Privileges, and guide and
prosper the public Councils of this Colony and
Land.---And in this Difficulty and Distress graci
ously manifeft his Power in the Deliverance and Sal
vation of his People, to the Glory of hisown Name.
T.Bl following ADDRESS, containing •)'bat may be
called broad hints, waspublffd, a few days ago,
at New-York, in handbills : --At was atyojent to the
—famous Mr. Rivington, to be inserted in bis " open,
and uninfluenced paper ;" but he though' proper to re
fuge inserting it, because it contain'd " personal Re
flections," and might " give offence to individuals,"
tho' it isfgned with the name of the author. After
insulting the whole Continent with the vilef anonimous
abuse against her mos referable Friends, the present
caution of Mr. Rivington mus be considered equally me
ritorious with bis former conduit.--TbePublic would do
well to consider that as Mr. Rivington is now so very
^cautious, it will be impoffble to advertise a Thief or
a Rascal of any denomination in his Paper, as it mus
of course contain " personal refledions" and may
" give offence to individuals." This kind cf cauti
on, however, was never discoverable in this Maubert
* of New-York, until Gage's band were furfeited
in dancing to the tune o/'Yankie doodle.
New-York, May, zd, 1775.
To the Friends of Freedom intbe City of New-
York, &c.
Gentlemen,
T Think it my indifpenfible Duty, when public Li
-1 berty is invaded and in Dinger, to hold up to
your View as vile an Incendiary and Conspirator
against the Happiness of this much injured, intuited
Country, as ever was transported from Britain. This
Character may be found in the Per Jon of a certain
John Foxcroft, formerly an upper Servant to a
Gentleman in Virginia, by whose Recommendation,
being willing to provide for a needy Domestic, ad
ded to that of a Brother, who derived his Influence
from administering to the Follies, the Vices and
Neceflities ofhis Superiors, who frequented a Gain
bling-Houfe, to which he was a Groom Porter ?
this Servant was drawn from his humble Apartment
in his Mailer's Hotel, in WilliamEurgh, and created
MaJhr of the Poss in North-America: But agreeable
to the old Adage " Set a Beggar on Horse-back
" and he'll ride to the Devil," he became intoxicat
ed with his Elevation, and let loose the Reins of ar
bitrary Power, guided by his own superlative Igno
rance, Impudence and Caprice. The Liberty of the
Press, the Palladium of all our Rights, was essenti
ally abridged through his Connivance. The most
detestable Publications of miniilerial Proftiiutes, a
gainst the Honour and Interest of all America, par
ticularly the basest anonymous Calumnies and Re
flexions on the honourable Continental Congress, and
other watchful Guardians of our common Freedom,
were insolently and triumphantly circulated from the
Poft-Ofice at Philadelphia, under his Patronage and
Protection l-.-The Exigency of our public Affairs,
with these Particulars, I now flatter myfelf will be
the Means of silencing the^v^ Mafic of his Horns,
unhorsing his Riders, laying his Generalfeip prostrate
at the Feet of American Liberty, and preventing the
future Collection of a parliamentary internal Tax, in
thevery Heart of the Colonies : Events that mud,
inevitably, take Place, if Consistency and Firmness
mark the Councils of my native Country !---May
this be her Glory, and may she meet with Success, at
this grand Crisis, equal to the Justice and Dignity
of her Cause ; to which my final! Abilities' shall
be contributed (like the Widow's Mite) while I
exist in the Shape of WILLIAM GODDARD.
0 Notwithstanding thejuft Contempt in which
I hold the servile Tools of a venal and profligate
Administration, (who are a&ing the Part of Sturdy
'pg 4 " ' n "" s once happy Land) especially the
MuJhroom Gentleman above-mentioned, yet if he
chooses an Explanation, he flrall, moil certainly, be
gratified, on a public or ,riv^ Application. Thus
much I think necessary to add, as the General of the
Pof-Office, like the renowned Gage, keeps himfelf
Encag'd. W.G.
* Monfeur Maubert zhas tbs writer of a well known
lying paper ended the Bruflel's Gazette.
The elegant black Englilh Horie
P A, 0 L I,
CLOVERS this Season, at my Stable, in Eafl
> Windsor, at 245. the Season, and 14s. the
Leap. He is remarkable beautiful, graceful in Mo
tion, has great Spirit and Refoltftion, and is posses
sed ofevery Property that can make a horse truly
valuable.,JOHN WATSON.
Eaf Windsor, May 6, iy„.-
'PZ?^ Ters^ue,
nA HO ver, lately escaped from the prijon if Boflon,
begs leave to inform his eld friends and cuflomers,
that be has opened /hop in the bouje of the Widow Sarah
Edwards, lately occupied by Mr. Samuel Wefleote in
Hartford; where he has a neat and general offortmenr of
Englijb Goodsfuitable for the frafa, which he will Jell on
the most reasonable terms for Cajh only.
MARY GABIEL, Mantau Maker and Miliner
from Paris, informs the Ladies in this Town,
and others, that foe makes all Kinds of Lady's Gowns,
Caps, Bonnets, &c. and dresses Lady's Heads, all in the
netted and newest French Fafhions.-—Sbe also wafees all
Kinds of fine Linens, Gauzes, Laces, &c. She may
be found at the House of the Widow Patten in Hartford.