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CAMBRIDGE, June 29.
Writs are issued (agreeable to the recommendati
.oll of the Continental Congress) for calling a Gene
ral Assembly to convene at Watertown upon Wed
nesday the 19th day of July next. # .
A man of reputation whose name is King, was in
Bolton at the time of the battle on the 17th imftant:
Having a permit from Admiral Greaves to catch
Fish for the town cf Bolton, he took the opportunity
to make his escape to Marblehead, and arrived there
the ziftinff. He informs, that from sunset, on the
day of the battle, until next morning, wounded
regulars were brought over in boats, to the amount
of at lealt 500 ; that 30 of them died before they
arrived at the hospital ; that 84 officers were killed
and wounded, 3 of which are field officers j and
that the whole of the killed and wounded amounted
to 13 or 1400. Var. >us other accounts confirm Mr.
King's intelligence, and give us great reason to con
clude that the havock among the ministerial troops
was very considerable. The loss on our fide is not
yet afeertained ; but at the molt is supposed to be
from 150 to zoo killed and wounded. Major-Ge
neral WARREN, late President of the Provincial
Congress, is among the fldin. Col. Parker of
Chelmsford, and 27 privates from different towns,
are prisoners in Bolton Goal.
The Hon. JAMES WARREN, Esq; is chosen
President of the Provincial Congress, in the room of
the late Major-General Warren, flein in battle.
On Saturday the 17th cf June, 1775,
fell in Battle,
in the American Army,
Mijor General JOSEPH WARREN,
A Gentleman worthy that Office, to which, the Day
before, by the free Votes of his Countrymen,
he was honorably elected
As a Friend to Britain, he wished the mutual Hap
piness of her and America.
And conscious their Interests were in feperable,
He llrcnuoully opposed the unjust Claims
ofa venal Parliament,
Over his Grave his mourning Countrymen may
jullly fay,
Here lies the Body of a worthy Man ;
Whose Name shall live, and fill the World with
Wonder,
Although his Allies scarcely fill an Urn.
His Virtues shall remain when we have left theStage:
His Praises shall be spoke for many an Age to come.
Since the battle of the 17th inst. a considerable
body of the army have been employed in fortifying
Profpea-Hill, Winter-Hill, and other eminencies
near Charleftown. The former, which is a very
fine situation, and in full view of the enemy on
B inker-Hill, is said to be now almost impregnable.
The lines on Winter-Hill are carrying on with great
Vigour, and it is proposed, we are informed, to ex
tend them to those onProfped-Hill. Similar Works
are carrying on at Roxbury : Breastworks, within
about half a Mile of the Enemy's Lines, have been
thrown up acrqfs the main Street in that Town. On
a very high Hill, a little Distance from the Meeting-
House, is erecting a strong Fortification within Can
non Shot of Bolton. The above Works have been
constructed to prevent any Excuifiorts the Enemy
might attempt [ 0 make into the Country, previous to
nearer Approaches that may be made for rescuing
that unfortunae Capital out of the Hands of its
present unjult, tyrannical Invaders.
One of ourlndans, a lew Evenings ago, killed two
of the Enemy's Cenrries, and wounded a third.
A Letter from Machias was this Day laid before
the Provincial Congress, containing Advices that in
Conference of an Application to that Place from
Ichabod and Stephen Jones ofßofton and Cafco-Bay,
for Lumber to supply the Navy and Army, the last
mentioned Person was arrested by the Inhabitants,
and put under Guard, while the other had made his
Escape into the Woods : ---That the Captain ofa
Tender sent to protest two Sloops which the Traitors,
aforefaid intended to have loaded, put Springs to
his Cables, and threatened to burn the Town un
less the Prisoners were released :---That an Engage
ment between the People on Shore and the Crew on
board the Tender took Place, and the Litter were
obliged to put to Sea. The inhabitants immedate
ly manned the Sloops, and arming themselves with
Fire Arms, Swords, Ax s and Spears, came u D
with the tender, & engaged her a fecund Time :---Thj t
Who attempted to ruin the latter, by depriving them
of their Rights
sacred by Charter.
Twice, to crowded Audiences,
He wail'd theFate of ihufe massacred March 5,1770;
and twice,
receiv'd the Thanks of his Fellow Citizens therefor.
To enumerate his Virtues,
would be a Subject worthy of an abler Pen.
Sufficient for us, we add,
lie by them '- raid rhe Found tian ofa Fame
that diall not be impaired
by theTooth of Time.
WATERS OWN, June 24.
Mr. Watson,
Please to insert the following in your next ; and Mr. fohn
Holt, Printer in New - York, is also deftred to insert the
Jame in bis Journal, as soon as may be, after receiving
your Paper ; by doing which, both of you will add ano
ther to the multiplied Specimens of yourfleady Persever
ance in the glorious Cause of American Freedom.
New-Milford, June 19, 1775.
rpHE committee of observation for this town, hav
ing duly notified John Peet, Thadeus Peet, fohn
Peet 3d, Efeck Wheaton, Thomas Noble, jun. Elnathan
Noble and Heath Garlick, all of this town, to appear
Horatio Gates, Esq; Adjutant General.
General Washington has appointed Thomas
Mifflin, Esq; of Philadelphia, to be his Aid de
Camp, & Major-General Lee has appointed Samuel
Griffin, of Virginia, Esq; to be his Aid de Camp.
By Letters from several Officers at Cambridge
we are able to assure our Readers that only 179 of
our Men are kill'd, wounded & miffing, thole that
are miffing are Prisoners in Bolton. These Letters
in general agree in the Loss of about 1500 of the
Enemy.
We hear the regiment of Welch Fuzileers were
nearly all cut off in the engagement of the 17th ult.
only one captain remains alive n that regiment.
Twelve companies of Rifle Men, confining of 64
men each, exclusive of officers, are on their march
from Philadelphia, to join the American army at
Cambridge and Roxbury.
Yesterday Mr. Charles Colton passed through this
Town express from the Camp at Charleltown to
the Continental Congress.
Departed this Life in Child Bed, at Farmington,on
the 26th Day of last Month, the agreeable ConJort of Mr.
Noah Woodruff in the ^tyb Year f her Age who has
left a diJconjolateHujband witha numerous Family ufJmail
Children, Two of which received their vital Breath as
she expired ; foe was a tender Mother and a benevolent
F riend.
AT a meetingof the committee of infpedion for
the town of Egremont, on Tuesday the 6th day
of June, A. D. 1775, at the houfe'of Jacob Carner,
in Egreraont, Moses Church ofEgremomt, in the coun
ty of Berkshire, and province of Massachusetts Bay,
being duly notified to appear before said Committee
and make answer to a complaint exhibited against
him for violating the 3d article of the aff,ciation
entered into by the continental Congress. The said
Moses appeared, and acknowledged the complaint
and the charges therein contained, to be true, against
him ; and declared, that as he had hitherto pradtifed
in the breach of laid article, so he determined to
perfift,in contempt of the committee,or any authori
ty whatever. Whereupon the committee, after ar
guments used to reclaim him, thought proper to ad
journ their meeting until the twelfth day of June,
that the said Moses might have time of considerati
on, and ictraft. At which time the committee met
again, and he, the said Moses, refufing to appear,
the committee agreed, upon deliberation of the
matter, that he be dealt with agreeable to the nth
article of thaaffociation of the ContinentalCongrefs.
THEREFORE, these are to notify all persons im
mediately to break off all dealings with the said
Mofes,and treat him asan ENEMY to his Country.
Ephraim Fitch, Clerk of said Committee.
Egremont, June 12, 1775.
an obstinate Refi Rance was made,but that the Ten
der was obliged to yield :-—The Capt. of the len
der was mortally wounded,and died tne next alorn
ing; five of theCrew were wounded,and one Marine
killed ; two of our Men were killed, aid fi/e
wounded.
Mr. Robert Avery of Norwich, in Connecticut,
who was on board the Tender, a Prisoner, was un
happily killed.
HARTFORD, July 3.
On Friday lull sassed through this Town for the
Camp at Charleftown, his Excellency General
Walhington, appointed by the Hon. Continental
Congress, Commander in Chief of all the Pf^inci
al Troops in North- America. He was accompa
nied by General Lee, and a Number of other Gen
tlemen.
Last Saturday the General Assembly of this Co
lony met in this Place.
The following is the Staff lately appointed by
the grand Continental Congress:
George Washington, Esq; of Virginia, General
and Commander in Chief of ail the Americhn forces.
Artemas Ward, Esq; of the Maffachufetis-Bay.
Charles Lee, Eiq;
Philip Schuyler, Esq; of Albany, in New-York
province.
Israel Putnam, Esq; of this Colony, to be Major
Generals. And,
Angus M'Donald, lately detected in inlifting
Men in New York, to serve under Gen. Gage,
against the Americans, as has been mentioned, has
received, as a Reward equal to his Merit, an Ap
partment in Fairfield Goal, formerly occupied by
the well known Richard Steel.
A Column for a Terror to TORIES'!
Litchfeid, 29th fune, 177 c. ,
Ebenezer marsh, and John colllns
both of Litchfield, having been regularly cited
to appear this d>y before the committee of iMpedi
on in this town, to a, fwer to a formal complaint feme
time since exhibited against them for violating the
afociadon of the continental congress, and endeavouring by
words and actions to dijeourege and oppo/e the measures a
depted by America in general, and this colony in particular,
fur the defence and Jafety of the fame, &c. made 1 their
persona i appearance, and feverallyplead No. Guilty :
Whereupon the committee proceeded fully to hear
and examine them, and the witnesses produced in
the cause, and upon mature consideration thereof^
the said committee unanimously, agreed that they the
said Ebenezer Marsh and John Collins are each of
them guilty according to the complaint---And there
fore Resolved, That they ought to be universally
contemned as the enemies of American Liberty.
Test, Jedidiah Strong, Clerk.
The above judgment being thus rendered and
publilhed, the said Marsh and Collins presented the
following confeffion for acceptance and publication,
viz.
WE the fubferibers being sensibly affected with a
con feioufne fsofthe justice of the aforefaid fen tence a-,
gainft us, & heartily sorry for ourpaftcondud in the
matter, frankly confefs our error and folly, aggra
vated by a series of misrepresentations and efforts, to
aid and introduce arbitrary and oppressive power in
America, solemnly promise, that (in future) we will
ftrialy comply with the measures proposed by said
congress and pursued by the Americans in general.
And thereupon pray,that we may be restored to chari
ty and friendfllip.
Ebenezer Marsh,
John Collins.
Voted, That the above confeffion is accepted. %
Test, Jed. Strong, Clerk of said Committee.
before this Committee (if they saw cause) to give
regions (if trap were) why they ihould not be adver
tised as fobs,-' to the rights of British America----
and said fobn Pat and 7 hadeus Peet, having neglect
ed to appear and give any Ndsfadtion to said com
mittee, and said 'John Peet 3d, Efeck Wherten, Thomas
Noble, jun Elnatban Noble, and Heath Garlick, havin 7
appeared and declared their opposition to the doi, $
cf the congress---and said committee having fui y
deliberated upon, and finding each and every of said
persons obdinatriy fixed in thrir inimical opposition
to the doings of the congress, and the (now bleed
ing) cause of America, thinks itfelf in duty bound,
agreeable to the nth article of the association en
tered into by the continental congress, to make this
publication, that each of said persons be univerfall,
negkaed, and treated as incorrigible enemies to the
rights of British America, according to said article of
said association. By order of the committee,
Samuel Canfield, Com Clk.
N. B. Forty other persons, being acculed with
the abeve, a number of which were particularly no
tified to appear as above, have all fignified a recan
tation of their principles, and a compliance with the
doings of the congress, to the present fatisfadion of
the committee.
Mr. Watson, New-Milford, June 19, 1775,
Please to injert the following confeffion, with the certificate
thereunder written in your next, and you will much 0-
blige J°“ r humble servants, the fubfcribrrs to said cor.-
. 4 , E the fubferibers, having been advertised by
%V the committee of infpe&iort for the town of
New-Milford, for signing a protest, so called, against
the town of New-Milford's adopting the resolves of
the continental congress ; published in fames Ri
vingion's Gazetteer, No. 100, which, upon further
confederation, do fee and lament thefatal cons quen
ces of such a paper's going abroad---the evils alrea
dy takun place, and we fear a train will soon follow.
As we believe the natural consequences of all such
publications is to invite the sword of civil difeord,
tyranny and oppression into the bowels of our native
country, we now look back with grief, on that un
natural aft of ours, and do hereby heartily and fully
adopt the doings of the continental congress, and do
now humbly aik the forgivenefs of our fuffering,
bleeding country, and do promise, with our lives
and fortunes, to defend our country, against the late
oppreffivc and unconstitutional ads cf the Britilh
Parliament. James Osburn,.
Hezekiah Stevens,jr.
Daniel Taylor.
At^ mooring of the committee of ii fyedion for
New-Milford, held by adjournment, at said New-
Milford the 19th day of June, 1775, Voted,.That
the conteffion of James Olburn, Hezekiah Stevens,
jun. and Daniel Taylor, is fatisfa&ory to said com
mittee, it being offered with the utmoftfolemn pro
testations of sincere repentance, and do recommend;
that they again be allowed to carry on their ufuaj
intercourse and dealings with their fellow men, or
condition, they forthwith publilh their confeffion
with this certificate, in Mr. Watson's paper.
A true copy f record,
Test, A " IRL »> Com. Clk.