New Hampshire -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
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- To the inhabitants of the state of Vermont., Friends and fellow citizens, Pursuant to appointment by the legislature, and instructions from the governor and council of this state, I waited on the General Court of New-Hampshire, at their sessions in June last, and delivered the public writings intrusted me ...
- Colony of New Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 12, 1776., In order to carry the underwritten resolve of the hon'ble Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all males above twenty one years of age (lunaticks, idiots and Negroes excepted) to sign to the declaration on this paper ... M. Weare, chairman. ...
- State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, February 27th, 1783., Whereas, by the various accounts from Europe, it is highly probable that a general peace among the belligerent powers will very soon take place ... Resolved, as the unanimous sense of the Council and House of Representatives for this state, that the present government be continued in its full force, till the tenth day of June 1784 ...
- State of New-Hampshire. The government and people of said state., To the selectmen of [blank] in the county of Rockingham, in said state. Greeting. You are hereby required to notify the legal inhabitants paying taxes in the town of [blank] aforesaid, (giving them fifteen days notice) to meet at some convenient place ... to vote for one person ... to serve as a member of the Council for the year ensuing ...
- In Congress at Exeter, January 5th, 1776., We the members of the Congress of the colony of New-Hampshire ... conceive ourselves reduced to the necessity, of establishing a form of government, to continue during the present unhappy and unnatural contest with Great Britain ... Accordingly ... we do resolve that this Congress, assume the name, power and authority of a House of Representatives, or Assembly for the colony of New-Hampshire. ...
- State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss., At a public town meeting, warned and held at the west chamber in the state house in Portsmouth, by adjournment, July 29th, 1779 ...
- To the inhabitants of the state of Vermont., Friends and fellow-countrymen, Pursuant to instructions received from the governor and council of this state, to wait on the hon. the General Assembly of the state of New-Hampshire ... I now publish a short and concise account of some matters that concern this state.
- A declaration of rights, and plan of government for the state of New-Hampshire.
- In Provincial Congress, Exeter, June 2, 1775., To the inhabitants of the colony of New-Hampshire. Friends and brethren, You must all be sensible that the affairs of America have at length come to a very affecting and alarming cricis [sic]. ... We would threfore recommend to the colony at large, to cultivate that Christian union, harmony and tender affection, which is the only foundation upon which our valuable privileges can rest ...
- Province of New-Hampshire. To the select-men of the [blank] of [blank], Gentlemen, As we were appointed by the late provincial convention a committee to call another, whenever the exigency of public affairs might require it. ... there shoud be a convention of deputies, from the several towns in this government, held at Exeter, the 17th day of May next ...
- A public defence of the right of the New-Hampshire Grants (so called) on both sides of the Connecticut-River, to associate together, and form themselves into an independent state., Containing remarks on sundry paragraphs of letters from the president of the Council of New Hampshire, to His Excellency Governor Chittenden, and the New-Hampshire delegates at Congress.
- State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, April 5th, 1781., Whereas the present situation of affairs in this state makes it necessary that a full and free representation of the inhabitants thereof should meet in convention for the sole purpose of forming and laying a permanent plan or system of government ...
- State of New Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 16th, 1783. A proclamation., Whereas the form of government agreed upon by this state ... was ... established to continue only during the unhappy and unnatural contest then subsisting with Great-Britain ... We therefore hereby make known, that the present plan of government for this state, is continued in full force and effect until the tenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four ...
- In Congress at Exeter, July 5, 1776., We the members of the Congress of the colony of New-Hampshire, chosen and appointed by the free suffrages of the people ... to establish some form of government ...
- To the inhabitants of the town of [blank] on the New-Hampshire grants.
- By the United States in Congress assembled, August 7th, 1781., Whereas the states of New-Hampshire and New-York have submitted to Congress the decision of the disputes between them and the people inhabiting the New Hampshire Grants ... resolved, that a committee of five be appointed to confer with such person or persons ... respecting their claim to be an independent state ...
- Regulation of sundry articles, at the town-meeting at Portsmouth, October 1st, 1779.
- State of New-Hampshire. The government and people of said state, to the selectment of [blank] in said state. Greeting., You are hereby required to notify the legal inhabitants paying taxes in the [blank] (giving them fifteen days notice) to meet at some convenient place in your town to elect [blank] person (having a real estate of the value of two hundred pounds, lawful money, in this state) to represent them in the Assembly to be held at Exeter, on the third Wednesday in December next ...
- Colony of New-Hampshire. By the Council and Assembly, a proclamation., Whereas the Congress of this colony have, agreeable to a recommendation from the honorable Continental Congress, resolved on, and form'd themselves upon a plan of government by a Council and House of Representatives ...
- Whereas the American Continental Congress have recommended another to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next,--we the provincial committee ... recommend it to the respective towns in this government to appoint deputies in their behalf to meet at Exeter on Wednesday the 25th day of January next for the choice of delegates to represent this province ... Nov. 30, 1774. By order of the committee.
- State of New-Hampshire. The government and people of said state., To the selectmen of [blank] in the county of [blank] in said state, Greeting. Your are hereby required to notify the legal inhabitants paying taxes in the [blank] (giving them fifteen days notice) to meet at some convenient place in your town, to elect [blank] person having a real estate of the value of two hundred pounds lawful money, in this state, to represent them in the General Assembly, to be holden at Exeter, in said state, on the third Wednesday in December next ...
- State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, February 26th, 1778., Whereas the present situation of affairs in this state, make it necessary that a full and free representation of the inhabitants thereof, should meet in convention for the sole purpose of forming and laying a permanent plan or system of government ...
- At a convention of delegates, held by adjournment at Exeter, November 3d, 1779,, for the important purpose of supporting the credit of the continental currency ... came to the following resolutions ...
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