| Description | Not signed, dated, nor addressed, "I was told by a gentleman on whose veracity I can entirely rely, that he was in company the night before they went to the Provincial Congress with Messrs Hopkins and sessions whom the Rhode Islanders sent to the Congress", these men are of opinion that it was impracticable to raise an army as they lack money and resources and were in every sense totally unable to contend with Great Britain, Mr Hopkins was informed that Mr Dalton of Newbury has declared openly at the Congress against hostilities and was much distressed at the despairing appearance of the people at Salem, humourous scenes enacted by the military actors, remarks on the adjournment of the Connecticut Assembly, starvation and ruin seem inevitable in America |