331Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have received a good deal of paper from you; I wish it had been more coverd; the writing is...
332From John Adams to Joseph Palmer, 5 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
The bearers of this letter, Mr. Stephen Collins and Mr. John Kaign, are of the peaceable society...
333To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 5 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have had the pleasure of seeing several of your Letters in which you Complain that your friends...
334From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 5 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress; copy: Pierpont Morgan Library This famous letter was unquestionably...
335To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 5 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Papers of the Earl of Dartmouth deposited in the Staffordshire County Record Office I wrote...
336General Orders, 5 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Adjutant of each Regiment is required to take special care, that all general orders are...
337To George Washington from John Hancock, 5 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to you by Alexander the Express nothing has Taken place in Congress that...
338To George Washington from Joseph Hawley, 5 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
You were pleased the other day to mention to Colonel Warren and me, as your opinion, that it was...
339To George Washington from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 5 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
This Congress had Ordered the inclosed Resolution to be prepared and sent to Generals Ward &...
340From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, [5 July 1775] (Jefferson Papers)
The battle of Charlestown I expect you have heard, but perhaps not so as you may depend on. The...
341From John Adams to William Tudor, 6 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have at last the Pleasure of acknowledging your Favour of the 26. June. I have mourned, week...
342From John Adams to James Warren, 6 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
Every Line I receive from you, gives me great Pleasure, and is of vast Use to me in the public...
343From John Adams to James Warren, 6 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have this Moment Sealed a Letter to you which is to go by my hospitable, honest, benevolent...
344To John Adams from William Tudor, 6 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I received your very kind Letter last Evening and this Morning had the Honour of being introduc’d...
345Editorial Note on the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, 6 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
On June 23 Congress appointed a committee of five, Franklin among them, to draft a declaration to...
346To Benjamin Franklin from Arthur Lee, 6 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I write to you more to prove my remembrance of you, than for...
347General Orders, 6 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
A General Court Martial is ordered to sit to morrow at 10 oClock A:M: for the Trial of John...
348To George Washington from John Fenton, 6 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
Medford [Mass.] 6 July 1775 . “Tho’ I am quite a Stranger to your Excellency, yet the peculiarity...
349To George Washington from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, 6 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
May it please your Excellency:—The bearer, Capt. Brown, is the officer who took the horses that...
350To George Washington from Daniel Murray, 6 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
States “that he has received the repeated Commands of his Father, now a resident in Boston, to...
351To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Delegates, 6 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
We inclose a Resolution of our Assembly authorising us to recommend proper Officers for the...
352IV. The Declaration as Adopted by Congress, [6 July 1775] (Jefferson Papers)
A Declaration by the Reprensentatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in...
353John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have received your very agreable Favours of June 22d. and 25th. They contain more particulars...
354To John Adams from Jonathan Williams Austin, 7 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I received yours of the 20th June, and am very much obliged to you, for your Kindness in...
355To John Adams from James Warren, 7 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I am much Obliged to you for your favours by the Sage, Brave, and Amiable General Washington, by...
356From Benjamin Franklin to [Joseph Priestley], 7 July 1775: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract printed in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces...
357From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Shipley, 7 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I received with great Pleasure my dear Friends very kind Letter of...
358General Orders, 7 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
It is with inexpressible Concern that the General upon his first Arrival in the army, should find...
359Editorial Note on the Olive Branch Petition, 8 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
By the beginning of June, 1775, the shadow of coming events lay over the delegates in...
360From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Hewson, 8 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I thank you for your kind Letter of April 11th. It grieves me that...