Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/II/1267
TitleThomas Wharton to Samuel Wharton, Philadelphia, Congress has met for three days but wait for delegates from Rhode Island before making propositions
Date13 May 1775
DescriptionOn the 15th they go into Committee to consider ways and means to find men and money, gives his opinion on this subject, Patrick Henry delayed in Virginia it is feared by fresh difficulties with Lord Dunmore, John Watts of the New York Council really gone to England to present to the King the true state of that Province as drawn up by the Governor and Council, showing the impossibility of subduing this continent as the people of New York as well as the other colonies are determined to oppose the measures of Parliament, just heard that the Massachusetts people have set out to take possession of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, consequences that have resulted by the mail from Boston being broken open
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