DENNYS DE BERDT to [LORD DARTMOUTH]. 1765, September 5.-Seeks to show the injustice of taxation and sending troops to America. Remarks on the sole right of the Americans to tax themselves by their own representatives. Letter signed. 3 folio pages. Autograph Note." My hand being difficult to read, I ordered my clark to transcribe it." Endorsed:-Received September 5, 1765. MOЯоCK INDIANS to the KING. 1765, September 14. Johnson Hall.-(Transcribed by their desire in the presence of Sir William Johnson and transmitted by Lord Adam Gordon.) Address. Assure him of their loyalty. Complain of the treatment of the English toward them in regard to the land called Kayaderosseras. Desire relief. 2 folio pages. Endorsed:-To the King's most Excellent Majesty, the Humble Address of the Mohawk Indians. RHODE ISLAND. Newspaper cutting, headed "Newport, 16 September 1765," giving on one side six resolutions of the Rhode Island Assembly of last session, and. on the other, a letter from Thomas Ringgold to Mr. Green, 27 August 1765, refuting a report that he had applied for the office of distributor of stamps for Maryland. The Resolutions begin: "This Assembly taking into the most serious consideration an Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain at their last sessions, for levying stamp duties and other internal duties in North America, do resolve, "1. That the first adventurers. settlers of this His Majesty's colony and dominion of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, brought with them and transmitted to their posterity, all privileges and immunities enjoyed by the people of Great Britain. 2. That by a charter of Chas. II. the Colony is entitled to all privileges of natural-born subjects. 3. That they have been governed by their own Assembly in. the article of taxes and internal police. 4 to 6. That the General Assembly have the exclusive right to lay taxes and imposts, and that subjects are not bound to yield obedience to any other law or ordinance." R. CHARLES to LORD DARTMOUTH. 1765, September 21. Great Marlborough Street.-Has visited his Lordship for the purpose of conversing with him about the instruction to Sir Hy. Moore on the subject of appeals and a petition presented to the King by the Agent of New York. Transmits a memorial for a grant of land in East Florida, to which he considers himself entitled. Autograph letter signed. 2 quarto pages. Endorsed :-Mr. Charles, Agent for New York. CONSTITUTIONAL COURANT. 1765, September 21.-No. 1. 2 copies. 1 leaf each. ANDREW SYMMER to [LORD Dartmouth]. 1765, September 21.-Agrees with his Lordship that there could not have been a more unlucky time to impose a tax on America. No sensible North American denies his dependence on Britain, but he insists that the mode for raising money should have been left to their respective Governments. He believes that the Stamp Act is an exceptionable duty and bears harder on some provinces than others, especially Virginia and Maryland. Remarks on trade with the West India Islands. Autograph letter signed. 5 quarto pages. Enclosure: Andrew Symmer. Paper on American trade. Enumerates articles exported by America to the British West Indies, for which she receives rum and sugar. Remarks on trade with French and Spanish West Indies, also the Danish and Dutch Islands. Government cannot take too rigorous steps to prevent the introduction of foreign European goods into the Colonies. Shows how trade in slaves is carried on in the American vessels. If encouraged, North America could supply the British, French, and Spanish West Indies with lumber and provisions much cheaper than can be done from Europe. Proposes some encouragements that might be given, and restrictions made to foreign vessels coming into British American ports. Autograph signed. 5 quarto pages. Endorsed:-Mr. Symmer. The BOSTON GAZETTE and COUNTRY JOURNAL. 1765, September 23.-No. 547. 1 sheet. The BOSTON EVENING POST. 1765, September 30.-No. 1568. 1 sheet. RESOLUTIONS of a CONGRESS held at NEW YORK. 1765, October 1.-Composed of the Committees of the several Houses of Representatives of the British Colonies. Their opinion respecting the most essential rights and liberties of the Colonists, and the grievances under which they labour, because of recent Acts of Parliament. 2 folio pages. Endorsed :-Resolves of the Congress. REV. DR. THOMAS DAMPIER to LORD DArtmouth. 1765, October 6. Eton.-Observations on Hasenclever and his iron manufactory in New York. Recommends him to Lord Dartmouth's notice as useful in giving information of America, and worthy of his confidence. Autograph letter signed. 2 quarto pages. Endorsed :-Iron. Rev. Dr. Dampier. PETER HASENCLEVER to DR. THOMAS DAMPIER. 1765, August 8. New York.-Private matters. Progress of his iron manufactory. Difficulties he has had to encounter with people and countries. Has started a hemp plantation upon the Mohawk river 300 miles above New York. Considers that America is of more importance to England than people at home imagine, and the late restrictions on trade have hurt Britain much already, and time will show how erroneous they were. He has written to Lords Halifax, Hillsboro', and Sandwich. Autograph letter signed. 3 quarto pages. Note.-Dr. Dampier was at this time sub-master of Eton; afterwards Dean of Durham; Bishop of Rochester 1802; of Ely 1808; died 1812. See other letters of his among the MSS. of R. W. Ketton, Esq., Twelfth Report, Appendix, Part IX., pp. 202-207. MEETING at CAMBRIDGE. 1765, October 14.-Newspaper cutting. Vote of a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of Cambridge [Mass.]. William Brattle chosen Moderator. Representing the Stamp Act to be an infraction of their rights. If this Act takes place liberty will be no more, trade will languish and die, and poverty will be their portion. MESSRS. BAYNTON, WHARTON, and MORGAN to the 1765, October 29. Philadelphia.-The desire of the Indians to have traders sent into their country. The cruel treatment shown to those sent, and the loss accruing to the merchants who supplied the goods. Have applied to the Board of Trade for relief and enclose copy of memorial to Sir William Johnson on same subject. Doctor Franklin is furnished with all particulars to represent this matter in England. Ask Whitefield to advocate with Lord Dartmouth on their behalf. Letter signcl. 3 large pages. Endorsed:-Messrs. Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan of Philadelphia to Rev. Mr. W. Enclosure: MEMORIAL to SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 1765, February. Philadelphia.-[Robert] Callendar, John Baynton, Samuel Wharton, &c., in behalf of themselves and others who lately traded with the Indian nations on the Ohio and to the westward. Desire compensation, in the shape of a proportionate grant of land, for their losses sustained through plunder by the Indians. Copy. 1 pages. Endorsed :-Copy of a memorial to Sir William Jchnson, MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 1765, October 23.-Fourteen Resolutions of the House of Repre sentatives touching their rights of representation in connection with taxation. Printed. 2 folio pages. Endorsed:-Boston Resolut, 29 Oct. 1765. The MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE and BOSTON NEWSLETTER. 1765, October 31.-No. 3239. 2 pages. NEW YORK. 1765, November 2.-Charles Yorke and William de Grey. Report to the Board of Trade. Copy. 4folio pages. Endorsed :-Copy of a Report of His Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor-General on an Article in Governor of New York's Instructions, relative to appeals, dated November 2, 1765. JOHN SMITH to LORD DARTMOUTH. Not dated, but in a wrapper addressed to Lord Dartmouth, covering also a letter dated 3 November, on the funds of the East India Company. Proposes means by which the national debt of America may be cancelled without Britain's help, i.e., by the improvement and selling of her improved lands. Autograph letter signed. 6 quarto pages. JOHN SMITH to Not dated, but in a wrapper addressed to Lord Dartmouth, covering also a letter dated 3 November, on the funds of the East India Company.-Hints on the produce and manufactures of America, and the duty she owes to Britain commercially. Autograph letter signed. 33 quarto pages. JOHN SMITH to [LORD DARTMOUTH]. 1765, November 5. London.-Proceedings in the Colonies owing to the Stamp Act. Many articles in the papers show an incendiary spirit. Autograph letter signed. 24 quarto pages. Endorsed :-Mr. Jno. Smith, Nov 5th, 1765, encloses American newspapers. Enclosure: 1765, September 30.-The Boston "Evening Post," No. 1568 STAMP ACT. Paper of Intelligence, dated variously from 4 July to 5 November 1765. Containing copies or extracts of letters relative to the Stamp Act. The letters are written from Trenton in New Jersey, 5 November 1765; from Philadelphia, 1 November 1765; from Boston, 4 July 1765; from Philadelphia, 30 April and 11 October 1765; from Boston, 17 June 1765. 4 large folio pages. MINUTES in LORD DARTMOUTH'S Hand. [1765], November 7.-Relative to Orders in Council of October 1765. References to letters from Secretary Cooper, Lord Grafton, General Conway, Governor Fauquier, and the Governor of Georgia, on American affairs, and Governor Melville on West Indian matters. 5 folio pages. Endorsed:-Minutes and extracts of letters from Govr. Melville, &c., Nov. 7. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR THOMAS HUTCHINSON to LORD ADAM GORDON. The 1765, November 7. Boston.-His distressed circumstances. General Court has refused him relief. Has now applied to the King, and seeks Lord Gordon's assistance to obtain some compensation. Encloses copy of address from the Mohawk Indians to the King. Extract. 13 folio pages. Endorsed:-Extr. from Lt.-Gov. Hutchinson to Ld Adam Gordon. RESOLUTION of MERCHANTS of PHILADELPHIA. 1765, November 7. Philadelphia.-Signed Samuel Mifflin, and addressed to Messrs. Richard Neave and Son, merchants, in London. To import no goods from Great Britain until the Stamp Act be repealed. Consequently, all orders given to Neave and Son for shipment of the same are countermanded. Printed form filled in.folio page. Endorsed:-Philadelphia. Resolution of merchants. MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 1765, November 8. Council Chamber.-Governor Francis Bernard. Speech to the House of Representatives and Council; with minutes of the 11th introducing it. Expostulates with them on their conduct towards him in consequence of the Stamp Act. Copy. 10 folio pages. Endorsed :--Copy of a speech of Francis Bernard, Esq., Governor of Massachusets Bay, to the General Assembly of that Province, on the 8th of November 1765. 1765, November 8.-Same as above. Printed. 1 page. ROGER HALE to WILLIAM DOWDESWELL, Chancellor of 1765, November 8. London.--In obedience to command, lays before him such observations as his residence in Boston in New England, while Collector of His Majesty's Customs in that port, may have enabled him to make on the trade of the Northern Colonies and the laws affecting it. 28 folio pages. Endorsed :-Plan for America by Mr. Hale. |