Acknowledgments and resolve in American Congress
The text declares grateful acknowledgment for friendly dispositions toward the colonies, defends armed resistance to British subjugation, and calls for liberty. It asserts intent to cease hostilities when aggression ends, seeks aid from fellow subjects in the Atlantic, and notes John Hancock as President of Congress in Philadelphia on July 28, 1775.
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Ireland
Atlantic
Congress
John Hancock
Preident
Philadelphia
Continental Congress debates right to tax and colonial liberties
The 1775 Philadelphia Congress rejects a British proposal to fund defence and civil government through Parliament control, affirming colonies' exclusive right to raise and apply their own money. It warns against parliamentary overreach and defends charters, trials, and trade rights. Portsmouth and New Hampshire notices follow on colonial assembly actions and representation.
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Fes
House
General Council
General Court
America
General Assembly
Euch
Congress
Parliament
Thas
Britain
Great Britain
Bounaares
Quebec
Jery
Cales
New-England
Pacific
Mini
Carthage
Boton
Charlestown
Joan Hancock
Provincial Congress Recommends Districts Form Militias in NY
In August 1775 the Provincial Congress of New York resolves to divide counties towns and districts into districts for forming military companies of about eighty three men. It outlines officers for each company and prescribes election by district committees from men who signed the general association.
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Nzuw
Cal. Lasher
Continental Congress
Sailicia
Robert Benson
New York
Hussars
Readings of the Declaration in Cambridge and Boston Protests
Reports from Cambridge describe regiments cheering the Declaration of the Representatives of the United Colonies read on Parade and Prospect Hill with three cheers. In Philadelphia General Assembly news notes alarm beacons and guard towers as the army supports the appeal to Heaven. August updates from Cambridge warn of troop movements and evacuations while Philadelphia reports soldiers deserting and rumors of an attack on Charlestown.
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Langdon
North America
Philadelphia
Pofsect Hill
Putnam
Prospect Hill
Continental Congress
Leonard
Putnan
Bunker
Providence
Cambridge
Gage
Bunker’s Hill
Charlestown
Honourable General Assembly
Tower Hill
Bolton
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New-Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
House of Commons
Portsmouth
the Assebly
House of Assembly
Wentworth
Fort William and Mary
Hampshire
Gratton
Province of
New Hampshire
House of Representatives
Charlestowa
Gaye
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