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Kingsbridge (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
Sears concerted with John Lamb to stop all vessels going to Quebec, Newfoundland, Georgia, or Boston; where British authority was still supreme. The people who came together at beat of Chap. XXXI.} 1775. April 24. drum shut up the custom-house; and the merchants whose vessels were cleared out, dared not let them sail. In the following days the city arms and ammunition of New York were secured; and volunteer companies paraded in the streets. Small cannon were hauled from the city to Kingsbridge; churchmen as well as presbyterians, without regard to creeds, took up arms. As the old committee of fifty-one lagged behind the prevailing excited zeal of the multitude, on Monday, the first of May, the people, at the usual places of election, chose for the city and county, a new general committee of one hundred, who resolved in the most explicit manner to stand or fall with the liberty of the continent. All parts of the colony were summoned to choose delegates to a provincial conventi
Chambersburg (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
ce in Lord North's propositions. The committee of Newark were willing to hazard their lives and fortunes in support of their brethren of the Massachusetts Bay. Princeton and Perth Amboy advised a provincial congress; to which Morris county promptly appointed delegates. All ranks of men in Woodbridge greatly applauded and admired the conduct and bravery of Massachusetts. On the second of May the New Jersey committee of correspondence called a provincial congress for the twenty-third at Trenton. To anticipate its influence, the governor convened the regular assembly eight days earlier at Burlington, and laid before them the project of Lord North. The assembly could see in the proposition no avenue to reconciliation; and declared their intention to abide by the united voice of the continental congress. Such too was the spirit of Pennsylvania. Let us not be bold in declarations and cold in action; nor have it said of Philadelphia that she passed noble resolutions and neglected
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
legates to congress Chap. XXXI.} 1775. May 2. went determined to bring about a reconciliation. Virginia was still angry at the seizure of its provincial magazine and at the menace of Dunmore to encourage an insurrection of slaves, when on the second day of May, at the cry from Lexington, the independent company of Hanover and its county committee were called together by Patrick Henry. The soldiers, most of them young men, kindled at his words, elected him their chief, and marched for Williamsburg. On the way it was thought that his army increased to five thousand. There is scarce a county of the whole colony, wrote Dunmore, wherein part of the people have not taken up arms, and declared their intention of forcing me to make restitution of the powder. Alarmed by the insurrections, he convened the council of Virginia, and in a proclamation of the third of May did not scruple to utter the falsehood May 3. that he had removed the ammunition lest it should be seized by insurgent
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
ngton, and laid before them the project of Lord North. The assembly could see in the proposition no avenue to reconciliation; and declared their intention to abide by the united voice of the continental congress. Such too was the spirit of Pennsylvania. Let us not be bold in declarations and cold in action; nor have it said of Philadelphia that she passed noble resolutions and neglected them, were the words of Mifflin, youngest of the orators who on the twenty- Chap. XXXI.} 1775. May. fifne hundred in each, daily practised the manual exercise of the musket. The Pennsylvania assembly which met on the first day of May, would not listen to the ministerial terms. We can form, say they, no prospect of any lasting advantages for Pennsylvania but what must arise from a communication of rights and property with the other colonies. The fifth of May saw May 5. the arrival of Franklin after a placid voyage over the smoothest seas; and the next morning he was unanimously elected a dep
Amboy (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
arms, and three hundred citizens; and triumphal honors awaited them at Newark and Elizabethtown. The governor of New Jersey could not conceal his chagrin, that Gage had risked commencing hostilities, before the experiment had been tried of attempting to cajole the several colonial legislatures into an acquiescence in Lord North's propositions. The committee of Newark were willing to hazard their lives and fortunes in support of their brethren of the Massachusetts Bay. Princeton and Perth Amboy advised a provincial congress; to which Morris county promptly appointed delegates. All ranks of men in Woodbridge greatly applauded and admired the conduct and bravery of Massachusetts. On the second of May the New Jersey committee of correspondence called a provincial congress for the twenty-third at Trenton. To anticipate its influence, the governor convened the regular assembly eight days earlier at Burlington, and laid before them the project of Lord North. The assembly could see
Louisa (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
rginia convention directed the excess to be restored. Two days after the return of the volunteers, Dunmore issued a proclamation against a certain Patrick Henry, and his deluded followers; and secretly denounced him to the ministry as a man of desperate circumstances, one who had been very active in encouraging disobedience and exciting a spirit of revolt among the people for many years past. On the other hand, the interior resounded with the praise of the insurgents. On the eighth, Louisa county sent them its hearty thanks. On the ninth, Spottsylvania cordially approved their prudent, firm, and spirited conduct; and Orange county in a letter signed among others by the young and studious James Madison, a recent graduate of Princeton college, applauded their zeal for the honor and interest of the country. The blow struck in Massachusetts, they add, is a hostile attack on this and every other colony, and a sufficient warrant to use reprisal. On the eleventh, Patrick Henry set
Sandy Hook, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
ica to submit to taxation by authority of parliament. The letter was signed by the chairman and eightyeight others of the committee, of whom the first was John Jay. They did this, knowing that at the time there were not five hundred pounds of powder in all the city, that several regiments were already ordered to New York, that it was commanded by Brooklyn heights, and that the deep water of its harbor exposed it on both sides to ships of war. The packet for England had hardly passed Sandy Hook, when on Saturday, the sixth of May, the delegates to the continental congress from Massachusetts and Connecticut, drew near. Three miles from the city, they were met by a company of grenadiers and a regiment of the city militia under arms, by carriages and a cavalcade, and by many thousands of persons on foot. Along roads which were crowded as if the whole city had come out to meet them, they made their entry, amidst loud acclamations, the ring- Chap. XXXI.} 1775. May 8. ing of bells,
Newfoundland (Canada) (search for this): chapter 32
ntment, threw off restraints. Though it was Sunday, two sloops which lay at the wharfs laden with flour and supplies for the British at Boston, of the value of eighty thousand pounds, were speedily unloaded. The next day Dartmouth's despatches arrived with Lord North's conciliatory resolve, and with lavish promises of favor. But the royal government was already prostrate, and could not recover its consideration. Isaac Sears concerted with John Lamb to stop all vessels going to Quebec, Newfoundland, Georgia, or Boston; where British authority was still supreme. The people who came together at beat of Chap. XXXI.} 1775. April 24. drum shut up the custom-house; and the merchants whose vessels were cleared out, dared not let them sail. In the following days the city arms and ammunition of New York were secured; and volunteer companies paraded in the streets. Small cannon were hauled from the city to Kingsbridge; churchmen as well as presbyterians, without regard to creeds, took
Hudson River (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
from the city, they were met by a company of grenadiers and a regiment of the city militia under arms, by carriages and a cavalcade, and by many thousands of persons on foot. Along roads which were crowded as if the whole city had come out to meet them, they made their entry, amidst loud acclamations, the ring- Chap. XXXI.} 1775. May 8. ing of bells, and every demonstration of joy. On Monday the delegation from Massachusetts, with a part of that of New York, were escorted across the Hudson River by two hundred of the militia under arms, and three hundred citizens; and triumphal honors awaited them at Newark and Elizabethtown. The governor of New Jersey could not conceal his chagrin, that Gage had risked commencing hostilities, before the experiment had been tried of attempting to cajole the several colonial legislatures into an acquiescence in Lord North's propositions. The committee of Newark were willing to hazard their lives and fortunes in support of their brethren of t
Orange County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 32
t a certain Patrick Henry, and his deluded followers; and secretly denounced him to the ministry as a man of desperate circumstances, one who had been very active in encouraging disobedience and exciting a spirit of revolt among the people for many years past. On the other hand, the interior resounded with the praise of the insurgents. On the eighth, Louisa county sent them its hearty thanks. On the ninth, Spottsylvania cordially approved their prudent, firm, and spirited conduct; and Orange county in a letter signed among others by the young and studious James Madison, a recent graduate of Princeton college, applauded their zeal for the honor and interest of the country. The blow struck in Massachusetts, they add, is a hostile attack on this and every other colony, and a sufficient warrant to use reprisal. On the eleventh, Patrick Henry set off for the May 11. continental congress; and his progress was a triumph. Amidst salutes and huzzas, a volunteer guard accompanied him t
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