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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.
Gage Governor of Massachusetts; Boston Town Meeting.. 34
Sympathy for Boston; Arrival of Troops; Addressers..
37
Appointment of Delegates to the Continental Congress...
Mandamus Counselors; Tumult at Cambridge; Suffolk
38
Resolves....
40
Continental Congress meets.
42
Declaration of Colonial Rights
American Association; Petitions and Addresses.
Secret History of the Congress.
Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
Page
43
44
45
46
War with the Ohio Indians; Speech of Logan
49
50
Creeks and Cherokees
51
52
53
Resolutions of the Virginia Officers.
Enforcement of the Association; Connecticut..
Third Session of the Massachusetts Congress; Minute Men
Seizure of Cannon and Stores . . . . .
Maryland; Pennsylvania; South Carolina ..
New Hampshire; New Jersey; Pennsylvania Convention;
Quakers...
Congregationalists; Presbyterians; Episcopalians...
New York; Georgia..
CHAPTER XXXI.
54
55
56
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..
New Parliament; Opposition to the ministerial Policy.... 59
Proceedings of Parliament; Chatham's Scheme of Concilia-
tion..
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...
61
62
63
64
65
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..
69
70
71
72
Delaware and Maryland; Henry's March on Williamsburg 73
North Carolina; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence 73
Ticonderoga and Crown Point; Vermont..
Capture of Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and St. John's.
New Hampshire Army
Provincial Congress in New Jersey
74
76
Petition to the King; Addresses.
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.
87
88
89
New Hampshire; Flight of Wentworth.
New York; Northern Military Department.
90
Collision with the Asia; Alexander Hamilton..
91
New York Committee of Safety; Flight of Tryon.
New Jersey; Maryland; Virginia; Flight of Dunmore...
Obstacles to the Subjection of the Colonies by Force.
Transylvania
96
97
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.
104
Advance upon Quebec; unsuccessful Assault.
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
Troops from Connecticut; Long Island Tories disarmed... 114
RECOVERY OF BOSTON. AMERICAN ARMY DRIVEN OUT
OF CANADA. DEFENSE OF CHARLESTON.
TION OF INDEPENDENCE.
DECLARA-
Hesitation of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Maryland Instructions; Common Sense.
New Hampshire assumes Government..
125
126
127
Retreat of the Northern Army; Affair of the Cedars ....
Battle of Three Rivers; Canada abandoned; Nova Scotia 128
South Carolina assumes Government; Defense of Charleston 129
Ideas of Independence; British Vessels declared lawful Prize 130
Commercial Regulations; Agent sent to France.. .... 131
Increasing Inclination for Independence..
Adams's Resolution; Virginia Instructions.
Adams's Resolution in Pennsylvania.
Hesitation of Maryland; Departure of Eden
Massachusetts Instructions ..
131
132
133
Independence proposed in Congress; Debates.
Board of War; Virginia assumes Government.
134
Question of Independence in New York and Pennsylvania. 135
British Re-enforcements; the Hudson reconnoitered...... 148