| Description | New York, "Mr Sherbrooke I dare say will give you a full account of the confused state of this continent, all our ports will be stopped either by Great Britain or the people here, if the present unhappy disturbances are not soon made up, for you may assure yourself that the colonies mean to be more united than ever since the unhappy affair last at Boston in which many lives were lost", associations are being handed round from house to house and signed in this and neighbouring provinces against oppressive Acts of Parliament, if England does not soon stop them Great Britain and America will both be ruined |