Address to Lord North on British and American crisis
A London Evening Post letter pleads with Lord North amid Tory and Jacobite threats. It denounces addresses as tools of an unlawful ministry, warns of economic collapse, war costs, and imperial tyranny, and calls for constitutional reconciliation with America while praising English liberty and resistance to despotism.
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Great Britain
Ireland
America
Somerset House
Lancashire
Bristol
Jacobjees
St. James’s
Middlesix
London
Traub
Lester
Fretholders
England
British Empire
Lingland
House of Stuart
Iain
Continental Congress redistributes Indian affairs and tribes
Cambridge and London records describe the Continental Congress shifting control of Indian affairs into three departments with commissioners. Deliberations cover relations with Six Nations and southern tribes, with presents and trade goods prepared. Baltimore reports Capt Wood inviting Ohio Indians to a Fort Pitt treaty amid warnings of Detroit belt-plotting.
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Philadelphia
Colony of
Virginia
Congress
Canada
Baltimore
Maryland
James Wood
Fort Pict
Detroit
Monsieur Baby
Ohio
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Foorth
Iain Stances
Peets
Hostage escape tale and colonial war rumors
Chenafaw, a Walliamsburg escapee, reaches Shawany and warns of Virginia’s war preparations against Indians, the governor aboard a warship. Capt Wood calms Indians. Philadelphia reports Carleton’s failed attempt to press Canadians, sparking a 3000 man insurrection for neutrality. Connecticut falcpetre samples spark factory efforts. Boston says Botton reopens with Curom House removed, unclear meaning.
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Chenafaw
Walliamsburg
Shawany
Wood
Virginia
Philadiphia
Canada
Carleton
Conneticut
Rhode
Botton
New England
Salem and Nantucket Expect Combined Action in September
A Boston letter via New York reports Salem and Nantucket might rise together in September while warships off Boston seize a London ship carrying hundreds of muskets for the Provincials. Other items note the Wasp arriving with Marines, the Mermaid to be fitted for America, and local market and political updates.
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New York
Salem
Nantucket
London
Bristol
Congress
New Jersey
Plymouth
Stone Bay
Wes
Treland
America
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