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Sth. We do most heartily concur in these preced
ing resolves, and will, to the utmost of our power,
take care that they ire carried into execution ; and
that we will regard every man as infamous who now
agrees to and shall hereafter make a breach of all or
any of them, fubjed, however, to such future altera
tions as shall be judged expedient, at a general meet
ing of Deputies from the several parts of this Colo
ny, ora general Congress cf all the Colonies.
9th. We do appoint aichard Henry Lee and
Richard Lee, Enquires ; the late Representatives
of Tris county, to attend the general meeting of 'e
put es from all the counties ; and we define, that they
<'(>exert their belt abilities to get these our earned
<cfires, for the security of publick liberty, afiented
to.
3d. It is the opinion of this Meeting, that the town
of Boston, in our filler Colony of Massachusetts-Bay,
is now fuffering in the common cause of North-Ame
rica, by having its harbour blocked up, itscommerce
destroyed, and the property of many of its Inhabi
nitants violently taken from them, until they submit
to taxes not imposed by their consent, and therefore
this Meeting rekrlve,^
4th. That the inhabitants of this county will most
cordially and firmly j%n with the other counties in
this Colony, and the other Colonies on this Conti
nent, or the majority of them, after a short day here
after to be agreed on, to flop all exports to Great-
Britain and the Weft-Indies, and all imports from
thence, until as well the act of Parliament intitled,
" An aft to difeontinpe, in such manner and for
" such tim as are therein mentioned, the landing
" and difeharging, lading or Dipping of goods,
" wares, and mer-hand zr, at the town and within
" the harb^urof Boston, in the province of Maffa
" chufetts-Ba-, in North- 4m?ri:a," as the feverrl
a&s laying duties on America for he purpose of rai
ding a revenu?, and all the act of the Bri.iih Legisla
ture made againll our brothers of Massachusetts-Bay,
in confeqaence of their just opposition to the said re
venue abls, are rep aled ; and it is the opinion of this
Meeting, that such a non-importing and non-export
ingplan should be quickly entered upon, as well on
the evident principle of felf-pre fervation, as to re
lieve our fuffering countrymen and fellow fubje&s in
Boston, and to restore between Great Britain and
America that harmony so beneficial to the whole em
pire, and so ardently desired by all America.
VIRGINIA, June go.
^e^X'^T a refpeftable meeting of freehpl
^ ^^ ,1 ders an d other inhabitants of the
™y , Mf° count y °f Weftmoreland, assembled
A 4* °" '" e not i ce ' at the court-hoqfe
g <2T Q°f the said county, on Wednesday
A 3 the 2 2d of June 1774, the Reve
s^fy^ A\ ^^^ % rend Mr. Thomas Smith being
firft unanimously chosen Moderator, several papers,
containing the proceedings in the l^te House of Bur
gesses of this colony, and the subsequent determina
tions of the late Representatives after the House was
difiolved, together with extracts of fevcral resolves of
the provinces of Maflachufetts-Bay, Maryland, &c,
being read, the Meeting proceeded seriously tb eonfi
der the present dangerous and truly alarming crisis,
when ruin is threatened to the ancient constitutional
rights of North-America, and came to the following
resolves:
ift. That to be taxed solely in our provincial as
semblies, by Representatives freely chosen by the
people, is a right that British fubjeds in America are
entitled to, from natural justice, from the English
Constitution, from Charters, and from a confirmati
on of these by usage, fir.ee the firft establishment of
these Colonies.
6th. Itis resolved, tha fc , so loon as the non-expor
tation agreement begins, we will, every man of us,
keep our produce, whether Tobacco, Corn, Wheat
or any thing clfe, unfold, on our own refpeflive
plantations ; and not carry, or fuffer them to be car
ried, to any public warehouse or landing-place, ex
cept of grain, where the fame be so done, on oath be
ing firft made that such grain is for the use and con
sumption of this or any other colony in North Ame
rica, and not for exportation from the Continent
whi ft the said agreement fubfids. And this is the
more necessary, to prevent a few designing persons
from engrossing and buying up our Tobacco, Grain,
Ac. when they are low in value, in order to avail
themselves of the very high price that those articles
must bear when the ports are open, and foreign mar
kets empty.
7th. This Meeting do heartily concur with the late
Representative body of this country to disuse TEA,
"and not purchase any other commodities of the East-
Indies except Saltpetre, until the grievances of Ame
rica are redressed.
loth. And as it may happen that the affmbly
now called to meet on the 1 uh of August may be pro
rofled to a future day, and may, -of the Deputies ap-
2d. That an endeavour to force submission from
one Colony, to the payment of taxes not so imposed,
is a dangerous attack on the liber y and property of
British America, and renders it indispensably neces
sary that all should firmly unite to retift the common
danger.
sth kefolved, it is the opinion cf thi s netting
that the Gentlemen of the Law should not (so loneras
the non- exportation agreement subsists) bring any
writ for the recovery of debt, or push to a conclufi m
any such suit already brought, it being utterly incon
sistent with a non-importation plan that judgment
should be gi ,cn again!! those who are deprived of the
means of paying.
POSTSCRIPT to the Pennfyhania Packet. No. 143.
pointed to meet on the firft cf August, trading to the
certainty of meeting on the 11th, may fail to attend
on the firft, by which means decisive injury may arise
to the common cause of Liberty, by the general sense
of the country not being early known at this dange
rous crisis of American freedom, we do therefore di
re^ that our Deputies now chosen fail not to attend
at Williamsburg on the said firft of August ; and it is
our earned wish that the Deputies from the other coun
ties be directed to do the fame, for the reasons above
aligned.
nth. Resolved, that the clerk do forthwith trans
mit the proceedings of this day to the Press, and re
qreft the Printers to publilh them without delay.
(By order of the Meeting.)
JAMES DAVENPORT, Clk.
The business of the day being finifhed, the company
repaired to the tavern, where a dinner had been pro
vided, and the following patriotick and loyal toasts
were drank, viz.
ift. God bless the King; may he long reign the
King of a free and happy people.—2d. The Queen
and Royal Family.—3d. The English Constitution.—
4th. American Liberty.—sth. May the brave and vir
tuous people of Boston be quickly relieved from their
present distress.—6th. Union of Great-Britain and the
Colonies.—7th. Lord Chatham.—Bth. Lord Camb?
den.—9th. Marquis of Rockingham.—loth. Lord
Shelburne.— 11th. Bishop cf St. Afaph.—l2th. All
friends of America.
WILLIAMSBURGH (Virginia) Tune 30.
An express, which arrived at the Palace last night
from Colonel Andrew Lewis and Colonel Preston, re
ports, that three or four families have been lately cut
off by the Indians, and that upwards of 300 cf those
barbarians were difeovered about 10 days ago, by the
flouting parties sent out by Colonel Lewis, fortify
ing themselves just beyond Green Briar. ! t appears
that they were well (applied with guns and amunition
of every kind, and that they are very vigourous in
getting themselves in as compleat readiness as possi
ble. Six hundred of the fro tier inhabitants are al
ready railed, and the number is daily encreafing ; so
that from the activity, prudence, and courage of Co
lonel Lewis and Colonel Preston, and the willingness
of the back people to do every thing in their power
to serve the country, our case may not be so deplor
able as was at firft imagined. Another expr fs is
hourly expected.
PORTSMOU I H, Nev-Hanyfeire, JO 1.
Last Saturday arrived here Capt. Brown in a maft
fhip, in 8 weeks from London, in whom came ten
officers, and unluckily far this place, there were on
board, 27 chests of that pernicious, deftruflive, trou
blesome commodity called T E A, which for a long
time h?,, and ftiil keeps the whole continent in a fer
ment, the duty an which operates in so violent a
manner on the minds of the inhabitants, not only in
the sea port towns, but the country in general, that
it will require the mod cooling medicines and the belt
(kill of the abl Ml political physicians, to prevent the
body politic from great convuluons -However, up
on its being certified that there actually were 27 cherts
of Tea, consigned to Edward Parry, Esq; of this
town, a meeting of the inhabitants of the town was
immediately called, and a special Committee chosen,
to wait upon Mr Parry the Consignee, to know whe
ther he would consent to certain proposals which
were made him, that the Tea might not be fold here
but refllipped, whg in a genteel manner gave them
all the reasonable fati^faaion they could desire, and
a watch of 25 men was appointed by the town to
watch it two days and two nights, and the third day
it was put on board another vessel, and sent out of
this harbour with a fair wind, committed to the wat
ry element, and hope in due time, the owners thereof
will receive the neat proceeds, and for the future take
care how they fend any disagreeable commodity into
this province, with a duty thereon.
Eyery tranfa&ion was conduced with the greatest
decency and good order possible, which woud have
done honor to any foejety.—The whole being of one
heart and one mind that the Tea should go out of
this port and harbour immediately, and not be land
ed in this province.
Town-meetings have been every day this week
held, and net yet over.
PHILADELPHIA, so/, rB.
Captain Barber, frbm Lisbon, the 9th ult. in
l° n g* 2 5 : 3°> fooke Capt. Kent in a schooner,
from Gibraltar for Boston, out 13 days ; and on
the 17th, in lat. 32, long. 33, he spoke Capt.
Winter in a brig, from Cadiz for Boston, who
informed that Capt. Kendle of this port was arri
ved at Cadiz.
Capt. Barber left Lisbon the 30th of May, and
informs, that an accountof the death cf the French
King was leceived there by land, which had been
denounced at the Court of Lisbon by the French
Ambassador. He also informs, that it was re
ported in Lisbon, that the King of Prussia was
dead.
Capt. Pym, arrived at New-York, the 13th of
May, in lit. 44. : 17, long. 23: it, spoke the
ship Two Brothers, from Briftui for this port, out
ten days,
Monday last arrived at New-Caftfe, the ship
Minerva, Capt. Linfey, with 450 passengers from
Newry.
A correspondent remarks, that, fupbofing the
British colonies in America to contain three milli
ons of inhabitants, and that pach inhabitant con
sumes annually only thirty thiltings sterling worth
of britifh goods, the annual amount of the trade
of the colonies to Great-Britain is four millions
and an half. And when we add the profits, which
ffie derives from her exchange of British got ds for
those of Rufiia, Holland and East-India, which
ole fends to America, the value of ourimports will
appear to amount to near one half of the whole
trade of Great-Britain.
I he late 1 urkifh edi& of a northern Governor,
demonstrates in the strongest manner, that no
thing will fa effeaually defeat the designs of the
Ministry, or so speedily procure a redress of ail
our grievances, as a nori-importation and a non
con fumption agreement throughout the colonies.
Several of the counties in EaR-Jerfey have en
tered into spirited resolves, by which it appears,
they ha ve appointed committees to meet at Bruns
wick the 21st of July, to choose delegates for the
congress.
James Ewing, Esq; -1
James Smith, Esq; and ( Chairmen.
Michael Swope, Mercht.l
or H E letters from the Committees of Philadel
n.P'r a °^ several o:h?r Papers mentioning the
diftrefles f our breth en of B>ft >n , and the Proceed
ings of t le Colonies on the fubjed of American I i
berty were read and c mfidered And the following
resolutions were unanimously entered into:'
• V R ^'\ 7°" v/e cofl fid% it the indubitable
right of British f§^ s , that no tax be impof d upon
I"" b ' the:r consent, given personally, or by
their Representatives.
2. d/ofue ^ I hat we apprehend that the inhabi
tants of Br.tifh America are unrepresented in the
Bntilh Parli.men; and that the a & of that Parli..men:
imposing a duty on Tea exported to America with de
sign to raile a revenue in this country, is upcoefti.
tutional
5. Rooked, That we will as far as in us lies, a^ree
and comply with any constitutional resolves, or reso
lutions which may be entered into at such general
Congress. °
$ 6 Refhe 3 , Thatjames Ewing, James Smith, Mar.
tin Eichelberger, Thomas Hartley, David Greer, Sa.
muel Edie, John Pope, Henry Slagle, William Smith
and Robert M'Pherfon, Esquires, Doftors John Hou£
ton and John Meara, Messieurs Michael Swope,
l°' e P b Donaldson, John Hay, George Irwin, George
Eichelberger, John Kean, Charles Lukens, Michael
Hahn and Thomas Minthall to be the general Com
,'?''' "' 'he said James Smith, Thomas Hartley,
Joseph rionaldfon, John Houston, Michael Swope,
Charles Lukens. David Greer and George Irwin, the
Committee of Corrcfpondence for this County, and
that they, orany two ormore of them be Deputies for
Yoik County, to meet at Philadelphia on the igth
day of July instant, with the Deputies of other coun
ties, in order to consult, and advise on the most exl
pedient mode of appointing Deputies for the general
(ongrefs, to affirt in framing inftruflions and prepar
ing matters to be laid before the general Congress, or
our Representatives in Assembly, and to do any other
things, which may be necessary at such meeting.
Same day agreed in Committee, that James Smith,
Thomas Hartley an 1 Joseph Donaldson be the Depu
ties for York county.
/It a Meeting ts th Delegates, from thefeveral to-wn^ibs,
end otters, F eernen of York County, at the Court
h'tije in 1 ork Town, on Monday th: a^ day of
'77+ J JJ»
3' Refolded, That we conceive the late aft ofPar
liament commonly called the Boston Port Bill de
priving the people of that once flourishing ci'tv of
their property a^ trade, and ruining many innocent
families unheard and without their consent, to be
oppressive and illegal, and an invasion of the just
rights of his M^efty's fubjeds in America.
4. Refolded, That we concur with our brethren oc
Philadelphia, arid others, in opinion that a Congref
of Deputies from the several Colonies in North-Ame”
rica, is the most probable and proper mode of pro.
curing relief for our fuffering brethren, obtaining re
dress of American grievances, securing our rights
and liberties, and re-eftabliihing peace and harmony
between Great-Britain and these Colonies, on a con-
Riiutional foundation-
The Freeholders and Inhabitants cf the county ^Hun
terdon, in the province of New-Jersey, convened
by advertisement, at the house of fohn Rinao in
/travel!, in feud county, on Friday the Bth °day of
'l},, 177+ Samuel Tucker, Efe; in the
Chai, came into the following Resolutions without
a dissenting voice, viz.
L "KT Edomoft exprefsfy declare, recognize,
VV and acknowledge his Majesty King
George the third to be the'lawful and rightful
King of Great-Britain, and all other his domini
ons; and tint it is the indifoenfible duty of this
colony, under the enjoyment of our constitutional
privileges and immunities, as being a part cf his
Majeft/s dominions, always to bear faithful and
true allegiance to his Majesty, and him defend, to
the unnoft cf our power, against all attempts
upon his perfen, crewn, and dignitv.