15291From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Sr., 28 September 1774 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Indiana University Library Cousin Jonathan show’d me last night the Letters he had just receiv’d from you and his Mother. The Firmness they express, under your present Difficulties, gave me great Pleasure. The Unanimity and Resolution of the Colonies, astonishes their Enemies here, being totally unexpected. By its Continuance, you will undoubtedly carry all your Points: by giving way you...
15292[Diary entry: 28 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
28. Dined at Mr. Edward Shippens. Spent the afternn. with the Boston Gentn. Edward Shippen (1729–1806), the son of Edward Shippen of Lancaster, Pa., was a lawyer in Philadelphia and at this time was prothonotary of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a member of the provincial council, and judge of the court of vice admiralty. Although a moderate Loyalist in the Revolution, he became chief justice...
15293[Diary entry: 28 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
28. Very warm. Foggy in the Morning but clear afterd.
152941774. Thursday. Sept. 29. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Home, with the Delegates from North Carolina and a No. of other Gentlemen.
15295John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Sitting down to write to you, is a Scene almost too tender for my State of Nerves. It calls up to my View the anxious, distress’d State you must be in, amidst the Confusions and Dangers, which surround you. I long to return, and administer all the Consolation in my Power, but when I shall have accomplished all the Business I have to do here, I know not, and if it should be necessary to stay...
15296From John Adams to William Tudor, 29 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wish it was in my Power, to write you any Thing for the Relief of your Anxiety, under the Pressure of those Calamities which now distress our beloved Town of Boston and Province of Massachusetts. The Sentiments expressed in your last to me, are Such as would do Honour to the best of Citizens, in the Minds of the Virtuous and worthy of any Age or Country in the worst of Times. You can have no...
15297[Diary entry: 29 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
29. Dined at Mr. Allan’s and went to the Ball in the aftern.
15298[Diary entry: 29 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
29. Very warm again, being clear with no Wind.
152991774 Fryday [30 September]. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Jonathan Smiths—Dr. Allison, Mr. Sprout and many other Gentlemen. On this day Congress adopted, in principle, a nonexportation agreement, to go into effect on 10 Sept. 1775. ( JCC Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. , 1:51–52). On the same day JA introduced a series of resolves in support of...
15300II. Motion on Nonexportation and Defense, 30 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Resolved That the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, and the Town of Boston are now nobly Suffering and Struggling in the common Cause of American Freedom and therefore that it is the indispensible Duty of all the Colonies, to Support them by every necessary Means, and to the last Extremity. Resolved That Should Whereas Hostilities have been already been commenced against the Province of...
15301From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Bache, 30 September 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., The Works of Benjamin Franklin … (10 vols., Boston, 1836–40), VIII , 137–8. This brief note throws no light on its background. Franklin was introducing a “young man” (he was thirty-seven), recommended to him as ingenious and worthy, who at the time was completely unknown and a year and a half later was famous throughout the colonies. Thomas Paine explained...
15302[Diary entry: 30 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
30. Dined at Doctr. Cadwalladers. Dr. Thomas Cadwalader (c.1708–1799) was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Hospital, a vice-president of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the provincial council from 1755 until the Revolution.
15303[Diary entry: 30 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
30. Still warm with some appearances of Rain.
15304[October 1774] (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Webster. Spent the Evening with Stephen Collins. Went to see the Election at the State House. Mr. Dickinson was chosen. As one of the representatives of Philadelphia co. to the Pennsylvania Assembly, which in turn, 15 Oct., elected him to the Continental Congress. In a letter to AA of 7 Oct. JA wrote at some length on the favorable turn of the Pennsylvania elections for the...
15305[October 1774] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1st. At the Congress till 3 Ocl. Din’d with Mr. Hamilton at Bush Hill. James Hamilton (c.1710–1783) of Bush Hill, north of Philadelphia, was the son of Andrew Hamilton (d. 1741) and Anne Brown Preeson Hamilton. He had held various public positions including those of mayor of Philadelphia, member of the provincial council, lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, and acting governor of the...
15306Acct. of the Weather in October [1774] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1st. Very warm & lowering all day. In the Evening much Rain fell. 2. Lowering but much Cooler. Wind at West. 3. Cool. Wind fresh from the No. West. 4. Cool, but not quite so much so as yesterday. 5. Warm without wind & being clear at the same time. 6. Little or no Wind. Clear & Warm. 7. Again warm—wind notwithstanding Easterly. 8. Warm, but somewhat lowering. 9. Rather warm in the...
15307Cash Accounts, October 1774 (Washington Papers)
Cash Octr 15— To Ditto [Cash] recd from Mr Wm Milner in Acct £158.10.10 Pensa. Cy eql in Virga [£] 126.16. 8 20— To Ditto of the Treasurer by Peyton Randolph Esqr. on Acct of my Exps. to Phila. as above 8.12. 4 30— To Cash won at Cards during my stay in Philadelphia 7. 0. 0 Contra Octr — By Sundries purchd in Phila viz. [Pa. currency] 5— 12 pr Woolcards [£] 1.10. 0 6 pr Cotton Do 1. 0. 0 1...
153081774. Saturday [1 October]. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Webster. Spent the Evening with Stephen Collins. Went to see the Election at the State House. Mr. Dickinson was chosen. As one of the representatives of Philadelphia co. to the Pennsylvania Assembly, which in turn, 15 Oct., elected him to the Continental Congress. In a letter to AA of 7 Oct. JA wrote at some length on the favorable turn of the Pennsylvania elections for the...
15309[Diary entry: 1 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1st. At the Congress till 3 Ocl. Din’d with Mr. Hamilton at Bush Hill. James Hamilton (c.1710–1783) of Bush Hill, north of Philadelphia, was the son of Andrew Hamilton (d. 1741) and Anne Brown Preeson Hamilton. He had held various public positions including those of mayor of Philadelphia, member of the provincial council, lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, and acting governor of the...
15310[Diary entry: 1 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1st. Very warm & lowering all day. In the Evening much Rain fell.
15311To George Washington from Valentine Crawford, 1 October 1774 (Washington Papers)
In the Hurrey of My Bisness I have Just time to give you a Line or two by Lord Donmore Express to Lett you Now how we goe on in this quarter with the Inden war Which is as Follow—his Lord Ship Erived here yesterday with a bout 1200 Men 700 of which Came by water with His Lord Ship and 500 Come under My Brother william Com by Land with the Bulocks and his Lord Ship has Sent him with 500 Men and...
153121774. Sunday. Octr. 2. (Adams Papers)
Went to Christ Church and heard Mr. Coombs upon “Judge not according to the Appearance, but judge righteous Judgment.” Went to Mr. Sprout’s in the Afternoon and heard Mr. Tenant Tennent . Spent the Evening at home with Mr. Macdougal, Mr. Cary of Charlestown, Mr. Reed and Coll. Floyd.
15313Samuel Swift to Thomas Cushing, 2 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
Since I wrote you, Jealousies seem to rise higher between the People and the Army. It has been Rumour’d they were about to Fortifie Dorchester neck, which if they Attempt I am well satisfyd the people will Rise, but at Present that Report Seems to Subside. There was a plan of their intended Operations droped and which was made publick. I have it not by me but the Substance that Occurs, was to...
15314[Diary entry: 2 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
2. Went to Christ Church & dined at the New Tavern. Christ Church, the oldest Anglican church in Philadelphia, was located on the corner of Second and Market streets. On this day, one of the assistant rectors, Rev. Thomas Coombe, preached upon “Judge not according to the Appearance, but judge righteous Judgment” ( ADAMS [1] L. H. Butterfield, ed. Diary and Autobiography of John Adams . 4 vols....
15315[Diary entry: 2 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
2. Lowering but much Cooler. Wind at West.
153161774 Monday Octr. 3. 1774. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at home with Coll. Dagworthy of Maryland, Captn. Dagworthy his Brother, Major De Bois, Mr. Webb, Dr. Clopton &c. The hurry of Spirits I have been in, since my Arrival in this City, has prevented my making Remarks in my Journal as I wished to have done. The quick Succession of Objects, the Variety of Scenes and Characters, have rendered it impracticable. Major De Bois says he will...
15317[Diary entry: 3 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
3. At Congress till 3 Oclock. Dined at Mr. Reed’s. Joseph Reed (1741–1785), a lawyer in Philadelphia, had been educated at the Middle Temple. In 1773–75 he carried on an extensive correspondence with the British secretary of state for colonial affairs, Lord Dartmouth, attempting to acquaint him with conditions and attitudes in the colonies and to warn him against instituting oppressive...
15318[Diary entry: 3 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
3. Cool. Wind fresh from the No. West.
15319To George Washington from Robert McMickan, 3 October 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert McMickan, 3 Oct. 1774. GW wrote McMickan on 7 Jan. 1775 : “Your Letters of . . . 3d of October are all before me.”
153201774 Tuesday. Octr. 4. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Alexander Wilcox, with all the Delegates from N. York, and several other Gentlemen.—This Evening General Lee came to my Lodgings and shewed me an Address from the C ongress to the People of Canada which he had. It was not, however, until 21 Oct. that Congress resolved to prepare an address to the people of Quebec, which was brought in by a committee (on which JA did not serve)...