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CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
[A complete Analytical Index will be found at the end of the volume.]
CHAPTER XXX.
ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THE TAX ON TEA. BOSTON PORT
BILL. ACT FOR REGULATING THE GOVERNMENT OF
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. AMERI-
PROVINCIAL CONGRESS OF MASSA-
MASSACHUSETTS.
CAN ASSOCIATION.
CHUSETTS ASSUMES
PARES FOR WAR.
THE GOVERNMENT AND PRE-
INDIAN HOSTILITIES ON THE WEST-
Gage Governor of Massachusetts; Boston Town Meeting.. 34
Responses; Continental Congress proposed
Proceedings and Dissolution of the Massachusetts General
Court...
Solemn League and Covenant
34
35
37
...
Sympathy for Boston; Arrival of Troops; Addressers..
Appointment of Delegates to the Continental Congress.... 38
Mandamus Counselors; Tumult at Cambridge; Suffolk
Resolves.....
Continental Congress meets...
40
42
11
Declaration of Colonial Rights
American Association; Petitions and Addresses.
Secret History of the Congress.
Massachusetts Provincial Congress...
War with the Ohio Indians; Speech of Logan
Resolutions of the Virginia Officers..
Creeks and Cherokees .
Enforcement of the Association; Connecticut.
Seizure of Cannon and Stores ...
Third Session of the Massachusetts Congress; Minute Men 51
Maryland; Pennsylvania; South Carolina
New Hampshire; New Jersey; Pennsylvania Convention;
Quakers ...
Congregationalists; Presbyterians; Episcopalians..
New York; Georgia....
CHAPTER XXXI.
VIEWS AND MEASURES OF THE BRITISH MINISTRY AND
PARLIAMENT. BATTLE OF LEXINGTON. BLOCKADE
OF BOSTON.
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS REASSEMBLES.
CONTINENTAL ARMY. CONTINENTAL PAPER MONEY.
DOWNFALL OF BRITISH AUTHORITY IN THE COLONIES.
TRANSYLVANIA.
Views of the Ministry; Tucker's Proposition.
57
New Parliament; Opposition to the ministerial Policy.... 59
Proceedings of Parliament; Chatham's Scheme of Concilia-
tion.....
61
New England restraining Bill; Declaration of Rebellion..
North's conciliatory Proposition; attempted Negotiation...
Supplementary restraining Bill; Petitions
Motions of Burke and Hartley; London Remonstrance.
Ireland; New York Petition...
62
63
64
65
Sewall, Adams, and Ruggles
Second Massachusetts Congress; Gerry; Expedition to
Salem....
Blockade of Boston; Massachusetts Army...
Paper Money; Address to the People of Great Britain..
Rhode Island Army; Nathaniel Greene
Connecticut Army; New Hampshire Volunteers.
Connecticut Mediation; Gage declared a public Enemy...
Provincial Convention in New York; Association.
Pennsylvania Volunteers; Committee of Safety..
Page
69
70
71
72
Delaware and Maryland, Henry's March on Williamsburg 73
North Carolina; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
Ticonderoga and Crown Point; Vermont.
Capture of Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and St. John's...
New Hampshire Army ..
Provincial Congress in New Jersey
73
74
76
New York Committee of Safety; Flight of Tryon . . . .
91
Bills of Credit; Declaration of the causes of taking up Arms. 87
Indian Commissioners; Post-office; Hospital.
Treasurers; Liability for the Bills of Credit
Massachusetts; Rhode Island and Connecticut.
New Hampshire; Flight of Wentworth. . . .
New Jersey; Maryland; Virginia; Flight of Dunmore... 92
North Carolina; Flight of Martin
South Carolina; Flight of Campbell.
Georgia adopts the Association . . . .
Report on Lord North's conciliatory Proposition
Obstacles to the Subjection of the Colonies by Force.....
Transylvania..
Connecticut Emigrants to the Lower Mississippi.
93
95
96
97
98
CHAPTER XXXII.
THIRTEEN UNITED COLONIES. CAMP BEFORE BOSTON
CONTINENTAL NAVY. INVASION OF CANADA. RE-EN
LISTMENT OF THE ARMY. PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIA
MENT. AFFAIRS OF NEW YORK AND THE SOUTH.
Thirteen United Colonies
Scarcity of Powder; Treachery of Church
British Depredations; Naval Affairs
Rhode Island; Loyalists suppressed...
Invasion of Canada; Allen taken Prisoner.
Capture of St. John's and Montreal ....
Advance upon Quebec; unsuccessful Assault...
99
100
102
103
104
Camp before Boston; Re-enlistment of the Army........ 107
Washington's Embarrassments; Magnanimity of Colonel
Whitcombe....
Northern Army; other Troops
Proclamation and counter Proclamation...
108
109
Secret Committee for Foreign Affairs; Paper Money..... 110
Resignation of British Officers; Howe Commander-in-chief 110
Parliamentary Proceedings
The British in Boston....
111
113
Affairs of New York; Rivington's Press.
Troops from Connecticut; Long Island Tories disarmed... 114
RECOVERY OF BOSTON. AMERICAN ARMY DRIVEN OUT
OF CANADA. DEFENSE OF CHARLESTON.
TION OF INDEPENDENCE.
The British driven from Boston
Treasury; Continental Fleet..
New General Officers; Northern Army.
Ideas of Independence; Advice to New Hampshire .
DECLARA-
121
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124