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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 23: (search)
fusing to consider the resolutions of congress. The confidence of the king reached its climax; and he spared no pains to win the colony. In an ostensible letter from the secretary of state, New York was praised for its attempts towards a reconciliation with the mother country; in a private letter, Dartmouth enjoined upon Colden to exert his address to facilitate the acceptance of Lord North's conciliatory resolution. The same directions were sent to the governors of every colony except Connecticut and Rhode Island, and they were enjoined from the king to make proper explanations to those whose situations and connections were to give facility to the measure. How complete was the general confidence, that Chap. XXIII.} 1775. Mar. 6. the great majorities in parliament would overawe the colonies, appeared on Monday, the sixth of March, when the bill depriving New England of her fisheries was to be engrossed. Even Lord Howe advocated it as the means of bringing the disobedient provi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 29: (search)
he same time the committee by letter gave the story of the preceding day to New Hampshire and Connecticut, whose assistance they entreated. We shall be glad, they wrote, that our brethren who come ew Hampshire, desirous not to return before the work was done. Many who remained near the upper Connecticut, threw up the civil and military commissions held from the king, for said they: The king has forfeited his crown, and all commissions from him are therefore vacated of course. In Connecticut, Trumbull, the governor, sent out writs to convene the legislature of the colony at Hartford onenty-ninth, reached the American Headquarters with his company. There was scarcely a town in Connecticut that was not represented among the besiegers. The nearest towns of Rhode Island were in mohusetts gained the cheering confidence that springs from sympathy, now that New Hampshire and Connecticut and Rhode Island had come to its support. The New England volunteers were men of substantial
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
d exposed to the insults of an exasperated enemy. Words cannot describe their sufferings. Connecticut still hoped for a cessation of hostilities, and for that purpose, Johnson, so long its agent peration of neighboring colonies compelled her congress in May to legalize the paper money of Connecticut and Rhode Island; and from fiscal necessity to issue her own treasury notes. Of her first ed reached the camp. Folsom was their brigadier, but John Stark was the most trusty officer. Connecticut offered six thousand men, and about twenty-three hundred remained at Cambridge, with Spenser was their representative in the colonial legislature. Once in 1773, he rode to Plainfield in Connecticut, to witness a grand military parade; and the spectacle was for him a good commentary on Sharphe Rhode Island legislature. He next served as a commissioner to concert military plans with Connecticut, and when in May the Rhode Island brigade of fifteen hundred men was enlisted, he was elected
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
hers 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, and every demonstration of joy. On Monday the delegation from Massachusetts, with a part of that of New York,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 32: (search)
ommunication with Canada, was the scheme by which it was hoped to insulate and reduce New England. On Saturday, the twenty-ninth of April, Samuel Adams and Hancock, as they passed through Hartford, had secretly met the governor and council of Connecticut, to promote the surprise of Ticonderoga, which had been planned by the Green Mountain Boys. Ethan Allen was encouraged by an express messenger to hold them in readiness; and the necessary funds were furnished from the treasury of Connecticut.Connecticut. Sixteen men of that colony leaving Salisbury, were joined in Massachusetts by John Brown, who had first proposed the enterprise in a letter from Montreal, by Colonel James Easton, and by not so many as fifty volunteers from Berkshire. At Bennington they found Ethan Allen, who was certainly the proper man to head his own people. Repairing to the north, he sent the alarm through the hills of Vermont; and on Sunday, the seventh of Chap. XXXII.} 1775. May. May, about one hundred Green Mountai
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 35: (search)
Arnold to repair to that post or to Crown Point with intrenching tools and all the powder and good arms that could be found. At the rumor of the proposed abandonment of their conquest, a loud protest was uttered unanimously by the foresters. It is bad policy, said Ethan Allen, to fear the resentment of an enemy. Five hundred families, wrote Arnold, would be left at the mercy of the king's troops Chap. XXXV.} 1775. May. and the Indians. The Massachusetts congress remonstrated; while Connecticut, with the consent of New York, ordered one thousand of her sons to march as speedily as possible to the defence of the two fortresses. The command of Lake Champlain was the best security against an attack from Indians and Canadians. Carleton, the governor of Canada, was using his utmost efforts to form a body capable of protecting the province. Officers from the French Canadian nobility were taken into pay; the tribes nearest to the frontiers of the English settlements were tampered wi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 36: (search)
ble for Great Britain and safe for the colonies; and that neither king, nor ministry, nor parliament, nor the nation, Chap. XXXVI.} 1775. May. would admit of further relaxation; but that a perfectly united ministry would, if necessary, employ the whole force of the kingdom to reduce the rebellious and refractory provinces and colonies. The arrogance of the language in which this ultimatum was couched, should have ensured its prompt and unanimous rejection, and have nerved congress to immediate decision. But it was laid on the table of the body, which was bent on a petition to the king, and a negotiation with his ministers. The month of May went by, and congress had not so much as given to Massachusetts its advice that that province should institute a government of its own; it authorized no invasion of Canada, and only yielded its assent to the act of Connecticut in garrisoning Ticonderoga and Crown Point. If great measures are to be adopted, the impulse must come from without.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
of offending the soldiers, from indolence, or from obstinacy. Of the men of Connecticut, a part were with Spencer at Roxbury; several hundred at Cambridge with Putngiment, detachments from those of Frye and of Bridge, and two hundred men of Connecticut, under the gallant Thomas Knowlton, of Ashford, were ordered to parade on Ca5. June 17. All is well. Putnam also during the night came among the men of Connecticut on the hill; but he assumed no command over the detachment. The few hourscanty force, ordering the train of artillery with two field pieces, and the Connecticut forces under Knowlton, to go and op- Chap. XXXVIII.} 1775. June 17. pose thws, and the grass lay on the ground in cocks and windrows. There the men of Connecticut, in pursuance of Prescott's order, took their station. Nature had provided army, engaged in a siege and preparing for a fight, no more than twenty-seven half barrels of powder, with a gift from Connecticut of thirty-six half barrels more.
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