Boston, December 12, 1774. GENTLEMEN, -We think it our duty to inform you, that one of the [British Navy] transports sailed from this port yesterday, in the afternoon, with several hundred soldiers on board. There are various conjectures concerning her destination; but it is generally believed she is designed for Newport, and that the troops […]
by Warren 1774
To the Committee of Middletown [Connecticut] Boston, November 17, 1774. Gentlemen, -Your kind letter of the 17th of October came safe to hand. When we reflect on the great importance of the controversy in which we are engaged; when we consider that America will be free and happy or servilely wretched, according as we conduct […]
“Cambridge, October 18, 1774. Sir, It is reported in this town that Mr. N.R. Thomas declared at your table that the Governor would take up a number of persons in Boston, and send them to England as Dyer was sent, so soon as he completed his works, and obtained reinforcements which he expected. This report […]
Date: September 26, 1774 “Messieurs Printers As I have been informed that the conduct of some few persons of the Episcopal denomination, in maintaining principles inconsistent with the rights and liberties of mankind, has given offence to some of the zealous friends of this country, I think myself obliged to publish the following extract of […]
[Joseph Warren in Boston to Samuel Adams at Philadelphia] Date: September 29, 1774 Dear Sir, – My last letter of the 26th instant you will doubtless have received by the post before this reached you. Since then, there have been arrivals from England, by which we learn that the ministry are still inflexible and obstinate. […]
Date: September 4, 1774 [To Samuel Adams in Philadelphia] Dear Sir, – Our friends, Drs. Church and Young (whose letters I have seen), write so fully to you by this conveyance, that it will be needless for me to take up your time in giving a minute account of what has passed since my last. […]
Date: July 4, 1774 signatures on document printed early in June 1774 “WE the Subscribers, inhabitants of the town of Westford having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties on North-America, and more especially the present distressed condition of this insulted province, embarrassed as it is by several acts of the […]
Joseph Warren to the Baltimore Committee of Correspondence “Boston, June 16, 1774. GENTLEMEN, -We last evening received your generous and affectionate letter, 3d instant, enclosing your noble and spirited resolves. Nothing gives us a more animating confidence of the happy event of our present struggle for the liberties of America, or offers us greater support […]
“To the tune of the ‘British Grenadier.’ A Song on Liberty That seat of science, Athens, and earth’s proud mistress, Rome, Where now are all their glories? We scarce can find their tomb. Then guard your rights, Americans, nor stoop to lawless sway; Oppose, oppose, oppose, oppose for North America. Proud Albion bowed to […]
“Boston, June 15,1774 Sir, – This afternoon was a meeting of a considerable number of the tradesmen of this town; but, after some altercations, they dissolved themselves without coming to any resolutions, for which I am very sorry, as we had some expectations from the meeting. We are industrious to save our country, but not […]
