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J 1 & W-Y OR K, Junb 16.
L-- 1l Gighta Gallows with the Figure of 3 Men’
;ufpended by theNeck said to be intended to repre
ieut Lord North, Governor Hutchinson, and Soli
citor V edaerburn,with another Figure representing
the Devil, were carried thro’ the principle Streets
of the City, attended by several Thousand People,
and at last burnt before the Coffee-Houfe Door.
It is said they were decorated, with suitable Em
blems, Devices and Inscriptions.
From Maryland we are informed, that the Magift rates
and the most reputable inhabitants of Queen .Anne’s county
met at Queen s Town, on the ^^th ult. chose a Committee
of Correspondence, and adopted the fame Sentiments with
the Gentlemen of Baltimore county. On the zd infant •
there was a meeting of the mofl refpeCtable inhabitants of
Rent County at Chef er Town, who agreed infimilar mea
sures with Baltimore ; and, after opening afubfcription
for the relief of the neighbouring poor., fufering under the
operation of the Boston PortACi, which presently amount
ed to a considerable sum, and is to be remitted in such ar
ticles of provisions at may be most wanted at that place—
chofe the following Gentlemen from their sanding Com
mittee of Correspondence, to meet the Committees from the
different counties in one grand Provincial Committee at
the city of Annapolis, to deliberate upon proper measures to
be taken, in conjunction with the other colonies in this dif
af roits juncture of affairs.
Thomas Smyth, Chairman, William Ringgold, fofeph
Nicholson, jun. Thomas Ringgold, and fofeph Parle,
Esquire.
HARTFORD, June 21.
It appears by Accounts before the House of Com
mons, on the 15 th of April, that during the Course
of the last two Years, 30,000 Emigrants had left the
County of Older, in Ireland, to come over to Ame
rica ; and that on an Average more than one Third'
of the Looms throughout the Kingdom of Ireland,
were then idle.
The latter End of last Month arrived at Halifax,
from Scarborough, in England, the Captains Patti
fon and Prince, the former with a 1000, and latter
with 141 Passengers, as Settlers in that Province.
Proceedings of the i own ^Treston.
At a Town-Meeting legally warned and held on Monday
the I oth Day of June, 1774, in the Tnon o/Trefton.
Col. SAMUEL COIT, Moder ator.
THIS Meeting taking into Consideration the
dangerous Situation of the British Colonies
in North-America, from the Principles lately adopted
by the Parliament of Great-Britain joy infliftingPains
and Penalties on the Town of Boflon without a legal
Trial or even Notice of a Fault; and likewise ano--
ther Aft is pending and far advanced for vacating
an important Part of the MaffachufettsCharter,with
out anyTretence of its being forfeited, and without
Trial, &c. and by sundry other Afts of said Parlia
ment, all which being carried into Execution would
render the Lives, Liberties and Estates of all the
Inhabitants of said Colonies precarious and entirely
dependant on the arbitrary Will and Pleasure of a.
British Minister of State.
Therefore, voted, That the Royal Charters to
the Colonies, ought to be maintained, as the only
sacred and indissoluble Bond of Union between the
Crown of Great-Britain, and her Colonies.
Voted, . That we will join with the Towns in
this and the neighbouring Colonies, in all reasona
ble Measures as ihall be thought best by a General
Congress, or other General Agreement, to assert&
mantain all our Rights and Privileges, and transmit
them inviolate to Posterity.
Voted, That if it should be thought best, by
said Congress, &c. to break off - all Trade with
Great-Britain, &c. as the best Means to attain said
End ; that (although we are not a Sea-port Town,
yet) we will charfully deny ourselves of all those
Advantages that arise to us from said Trade.
Voted, That Col. Samuel Coit, William Witter,
Mr. John Avery, jun. fohn Tyler, Esq; Capt. Willi
am Belcher, Samuel Mots and Benjamin Coit, Efq’rs
be a Committee for keeping up a Correspondence
with the Towns of this and the neighbouring Co
loines.
A true Copy, Attest Roger Sterry, Town-Clerk.
PROCEEDINGS of the Town of Farmington.
AT a very full Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town
of Farmington, legally warned, and held in said
Farmington, the \fh Day of sane, 1774.
Col. J O H N STRONG, Moderator.
VOTED, * “'HAT the Aft of Parliament for
1 blocking up the Port of Boston,
is an Invalion of the Rights and Privileges of every
American, and as such are determined to oppole
the fame, together with all other such arbitrary
and tyrannical Afts, in every suitable Way and
Manner that may be adopted in general Congress ;
to the Intent we may be instrumental of securing,
and transmitting our Rights and Privileges invio
late, to the latest Posterity.
That the Fate of American Freedom greatly de
pends upon the Conduft of the Inhabitants of the
Town of Boston, in the present alarming Crifts of
PROCEEDINGS of the Town of Wethersfield.
AT a Town-Meeting, legally warned, and held at We
thersfield, in Connecticut, on the 17 th fune, 177^.
HP HE Resolutions of the Honourable House of
Representatives, by them come into,. at their
Session at Hartford, in May last, being read, were
unanimoufiy approved of, and ordered to be enter
ed at large, on the Records of the Town ; as being
expreflive of the Sentiments of the Inhabitants, on
the important Subjefts, to which they refer, and
proper to be transmitted to future Times, in such a
Manner that all may have access to'them, on every
proper Occafton.
The extreme Distress to which our Brethren of
Boston are reduced, by the merciless Arm of Tyran
ny, was then brought uneer Consideration ; and
Voted and Resolved, That this Town do confi
der the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to be
now Suffering for the common Cause of American
Liberty ; and that we are bound in common Jus
tice, as well as by the early Tyes of Friendlhip be
tween our Anceftcrs, when despising every other
Hardlhip and Danger ( they ^ed from Tyranny, ci
vil and religious, to this Continent, then a savage
Wilderness, and here erefted a Standard of Liber
ty ; as well as by the common Laws of Humanity,
to afford them all the Afliftance in our Power, both
by our Advice and Counsel, as well as by giving
them Part of that Substance which God hath blefs’d
us with from Time to Time, as their Neceflities
Ihall require.
This Town being informed, that a Congress of
the Colonies is proposed, and likely to take place
soon, do hereby approve of it as a neceftary and
salutary meaiure, when we hope and trust, a ge
neral Non-irnportation, and Non-exportation A
greement will be come into, and take Place in
the Colonies—But to the Deliberations of so ref
peftable a Body, and to their superior Wisdom
iubmit, what Measures are proper, at so alarming
and critical a' Period as this, in which nothing less
is attack’d than the Lives and Liberties of all the
free-born Inhabitants of British America Most
chearfully engaging, to the utmost of our Power
and Influence, to come into and promote that uni
versal Similarity of Sentiment and Proceeding, on
which, (under GOD) our ALL, in Life, and e
very agreable Profpeft, for Posterity, is depending.
And in Order to afford seasonable Relief, to those
in said Town of Boston, who may more immedi
ately fuffer by the present Measures, a Contribution
was- recommended, and a large Committee, of the
most refpeftable Inhabitants, appointed to receive
Subscriptions in Wheat, and other Provisions, or
Money, and the fame to be transmitted to the Se
left-Men of the Town of Boston, or such other
Person as the said Town of Boston Ihall appoint to
receive the fame.
In Pursuance of which, a Committee was ap
pointed, with all convenient Speed, to take in
Subscriptions of Wheat, Rye, Indian Corn, and
other Provisions, of the Inhabitants of this Town,
and to colieft, and transport the fame to the Town
of Boston, there to be delivered to the Seleft-Men
of said Town, to be by them distributed, at their
Discretion, to those who are incapacitated to pro
cure a neceftary Subiiltence, in Consequence of the
lace oppressive Measures of Administration.
That William fudd, Fijher Gay, Selah Hart, and
Stephen Hotchkifs, Efq’rs. Mess fohn Treadwell,
Ajahel Wadsworth, fonathan Root, Samuel Smith, Icha
bod Norton, Noadiah Hooker, and Gad Stanley, be,
they are hereby appointed a Committe, to kees
a Correspondence with the Towns of this, and the
neighbouring Colonies ; and that they forthwith
transmit a Copy of the Votes of this Meeting, to
the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of
Boston, and also to cause the fame to be made
Public. Certified per
SOLOMON WHITMAN, Town Clerk.
public Affairs: We therefore entreat them, by eve
ry Thing that is dear and sacred, to persevere with
unremitted Vigilance and Resolution, till'their La
bours shall be crowned with the deftred Success.
That, as many of the Inhabitants of the Town
of Boston, must, in a Ihort Time, be reduced to the
utmost Distress, in Consequence of their Port-Bill,
we deem it our indifpenfible Duty, by every pro
per and effeftual Method, to assist in affording them
ipeedy Relief.
N.B. We have the Pleasure to inform the Public,
that altho’ this Subscription was opened but on
Friday last, it has already become almost univer
sal in said Town, and that considerable Wheat, &c.
is already collefted.
PROCEEDINGS of the Town of Hartford.
AT a very full Meeting of the refpeCtable Inhabitants of
the Town of Hartford, conven'd at the Court-House,
on the 20th Day of fune, A. D. 1774«
JOHN PITKIN, Esq; Chairman.
THIS Meeting, with Hearts filled with Loyalty,
Duty and Obedience to our rightful Sovereign
King GEORGE the Third, and with the most
f To the Printers in Boston and Connecticut.
HOWEVER hard or unjust this Country may
esteem the late Aft of Parliament for block
ing up the Port of Boston, whose Commerce is abso
lutely neceflary for the Support of its numerous and
worthy Inhabitants, and vastly beneficial to the Mo
ther Country,---yet ’tis very certain notone in ten
Thousand approve the extravagant Conduft said to
have been adopted by some People in Farmington, an
exagerated Account of which is inferred in the Bos
ton Papers of 30th May. Instead of a- Thousand
People, perhaps there was scarce an Hundred, and
all but very of them inconsiderate Youngsters : I am
well allured that the Body of the Town resent and
detest the Ralhnefs and Folly of that frantic Conduft.
—Zealous as we are in the Cause of Liberty we
know how to treat’ with more Refpeft an Aft of the
Legillature of Great-Britain. But the whole Affair
was in Truth so small, so inconsiderable, so sudden
and attended by so few, as really to be unworthy of
any Notice at all and it is unaccountable how
so aggravated a F eprefentation could find its Way
To the Press, and that any Printer should insert it.
But Mifrepreientation and Lies have procured the
Burdens we labour under, and if they had any Ten
dency to remove them, the Praftice would be little
more tolerable. NEW-ENGLAND.
That the Measures now pursuing against Boston,
and the Maflachufetts-Bay, appear to them an In
novation of their natural Rights as Men, and con
stitutional Rights as Englilh Subjefts ; and if not
removed, will be a Foundation for the utter De
ftruftien of American Freedom.
That all legal and constitutional Means ought to
be used, by all America, for procuring a Remo
val of the fame.
That the only effeftual Means for obtaining such
Removal, they are at present of Opinion, is an As
sociation, under the strongest Ties, for breaking oft”
such commercial Connections with Great-Britain,
as shall be generally agreed upon, until American
Freedom be afeertain’d and fettled upon a perma
nent and constitutional Foundation.
That the most prafticable Mode of forming such
an effeftual Association, they conceive, will be a
general Congress, to be appointed from the several
Colonies.
That in the mean Time, they will forthwith fre
ly contribute, each One, a Proportion of his Sub
stance, for the Relief of the Poor of Boston, in
their present Distress.
That Thomas Seymour, Elijha Pitkin, feffe Root,
George Pitkin, Isaac Sheldon, Samuel Wyllys, Caleb
Bull, and Abijah Colton, be a Committee of Corres
pondence to receive and answer all Letters, and to
promote and forward such Contributions that may
be made in this Town, so as to answer the Purposes
for which the fame are designed, and that any Five
of the Number have power to aft.
Signed by Order,.
George Wyllys, Clerk.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon.
Court of Probate, for the DiftriCt of Hartford,
Commiffoners on the Estate of David Goodrich, jun. late
of Wethersfield, represented Insolvent. This is to notify
the Creditors to faidEftate, that we shall attend on that
Business at the Dwelling-House of Capt. fohn Robbins
Innholder in said Wethersfield on the last Mondays of in
fant f une, fuly and August next, from two of the Clock
in the Afternoon till eight—Three Months being allowed
for that Purpose. fune X^th, 1774*
fOHN ROBBINS, ) r
ELIAS WILLIAMS, j Cornfni JF aners '
RUN away from me the Subscriber on the 1 2th of
fune Infant, an Apprentice Boy, named Naboth
Lewis ; he is thick set, well built fellow, of a reddijb
Complexion, about 18 Tears of Age ; he carried away
too Felt Hats, a greyijh out Ede facket, rip'd under the
right Arm, check'd homespun linnen Shirt, ftrip'd Trow’-
fers, a pair offingle foil'd Shoes with yellow metalßuckles
—it is likely he will call himfelf a foiner, for be has
been serving at that Business. Whoever will take up said
Apprentice and return him to the Subscriber in Middletown,,
shall be paid TWO DOLLARS Reward, and all ne
cessary Charges, by Samuel Thompson.
June 20, 1774.
WANTED immediately, a Journeyman Wea
ver, to whein good Wages will be given.—
Enq.ire of The PRINTER
poignant Grief at the gloomy Situation the AR
fairs of Great-Britain and her Colonies are like to be
thrown into by the unconstitutional Claim of the
British Parliament, to impose Duties and Taxes
on the Americans without their Consent—Do think
themselves oblig’d, by all the Ties which ever
ought to preserve a firm Union amongst Ame
ricans, as speedily as poflible, to make known their
Sentiments to their distressed Brethren of Boston ;
and therefore, do firmly Resolve and Declare,
That they look upon the Cause of Boston, in it’s
Consequences, to be the common Cause of Ame
rica.