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truly patriotic, and firmly fixed to assist and support their American brethren against all attacks made on the liberties of our Constitution. We, their Committee of Correspondence, have authority to assure you that the cause in which you are now suffering (under the tyranny of an unprece dented and cruel Act of Parliament) is here considered, universally, as an attack upon us all, though the vengeance of the present ministry is levied particularly at your Port and Province at this time. It gives us particular satisfac tion to find so great a majority of true friends to American freedom in your patriotic Town, and that you persevere with such fortitude, under the persecuting hand of tyranny. It must be some alleviation, in your distress, to find your brethren in this and the other sister Colonies contributing to the relief of the indigent with you. We flatter ourselves no Colony will extend their liberality to you to exceed this, and it is with real satisfaction, we have the pleasure to inform you that the worthy inhabitants of this Town have subscribed to pay and deliver to us, sufficient to purchase one hundred and twenty fat sheep, and six fat cattle, to be forwarded to the Selectmen or Overseers of the Poor with you, to be by them distributed as their pru dence shall direct. We shall therefore be glad to be informed at what time it will be most convenient for your people to receive said donation, which shall be sent you on advice. We promise ourselves (from many of the char acters we see appointed to compose the intended Congress) that the most salutary plan will be recommended, and by us all religiously adhered to, which cannot fail to procure us relief from the oppression we are attacked and threatened with-as some with you, no doubt, would gladly sug gest and propagate that Doct. Johnson, not accepting that important trust when he was appointed thereto, was that he disapproved of the method for redress we are pursuing. To give you authority to contradict such evil and illgrounded insinuations, if any, we here inclose you the copy of a Letter one of your Committee lately received from the Clerk of our Colony's Committee of Correspondence, setting that matter in its true light.

The Committee of Correspondence have since appointed the Hon. Roger Sherman, Esq. to supply Doctor Johnson's place, and in case he cannot attend, Joseph Trumbull, Esq.

1 of his Honor our Governor. We shall always think rselves happy to contribute, to the utmost of our ability, atever may be of service in the grand cause for which now contend; and it will give us pleasure to correspond you thereon.

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Being with much esteem, Gentlemen,

Your very obedient, humble servants,

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The Committee of Correspondence for this Town, anded to us, who are a Committee for receiving Donaons and employing the suffering poor, by means of the ort Bill, your favors of the 10th inst., enclosing Mr. Silas Dean's letter, accounting for Dr. Johnson's declining to tend the Congress, which gives us satisfaction. And also e votes of the Town of Groton, which greatly refresh ur spirits, and confirm us in our resolutions not tamely to esign any of the American rights. But it is our particur department to acknowledge, in behalf of this Town, ur great obligations to our friends of Groton, for their enerous subscriptions for the relief of our suffering poor, hose support must otherwise, at this time of general tagnation of business, have fallen extremely heavy upon hose of property among us. We note your purpose to end us one hundred and twenty fat sheep and six fat

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cattle, and desire to be informed at what time it will be most convenient to receive said donation. For answer, we would refer the time of receiving this generous and disin terested bounty of our friends, to their own convenience.

Be assured of our sincere prayers to the Sovereign Dis poser of all events, that our benefactors at Groton and elsewhere may forever enjoy the rewards of the virtuous.

We are, your friends and humble servants,

NATH'L APPLETON.

William Ledyard, Esqr., of the Committee of Correspondence in Groton, Connecticut.

GENTLEMEN,

LETTER FROM BROOKLYN.

Brooklyn in Pomfret, August 11th, 1774.

With our hearts deeply impressed with the feelings of humanity towards our near and dear brethren of Boston, who are now suffering under a ministerial, revengeful hand, and at the same time full of gratitude to the patriotic inhabitants, for the noble stand which they have made against all oppressive innovations, and with unfeigned love for all British America, who must, if Boston is subjugated, alternately fall a prey to ministerial ambition, send you one hundred and twenty-five sheep, as a present from the inhabi tants of the parish of Brooklyn, hoping thereby you may be enabled to stand more firm (if possible) in the glorious cause in which you are embarked, notwithstanding the repeated, unheard of daring attacks, which the British Parliament are making upon the rights which you ought to enjoy as English-born subjects; and if so, we shall of con sequence contribute our mite towards the salvation of British America, which is all our ambition.

In zeal in our country's cause, we are exceeded by none; but our abilities and opportunities do not admit of our being of that weight in the American scale as we would to God we were.

We mean, in the first place, to attempt to appease the ire (raised by your committing the India Tea to the watery element as a merited oblation to Neptune) of an ambitious and vindictive minister, by the blood of rams and of lambs; f that do not answer the end, we are ready to march in the an, and to sprinkle the American altars with our hearts' blood, if occasion should be.

The latent seeds of destruction which are implanted in The constitution of almost every state or empire, have grown in England, in these last nine years, with amazing apidity, and now are mature for harvest; and ere long we hall see reapers flocking from all parts of Europe, who vill sweep their fields with the besom of destruction. This thought occasions a cloud of melancholy to arise in he breast of every descendant from Britain, which is only lissipated by the pleasing prospect every American has before him! Here we have an unbounded, fertile country, worth contending for with blood! Here bribery and coruption, which are certain forebodings of a speedy dissoluion, are as yet only known by names. To us, ere long, Britain's glory will be transferred, where it will shine with ccumulated brilliancy.

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We cannot but rejoice with you, on account of the union nd firmness of the Continent. The public virtue now xhibited by the Americans, exceeds all of its kind that an be produced in the annals of the Greeks and Romans. Behold them from North to South, from East to West, triving to comfort the Town of Boston, both by publishing heir sentiments in regard to the present tyrannical adminstration, and by supporting their poor with provision, who, therwise, in this present stagnation of business, would ave reduced the opulent to a state of penury and despair n a short time.

You are held up as a spectacle to the whole world. All Christendom are longing to see the event of the American ontest. And do, most noble citizens, play your part manully, of which, we make no doubt, your names are either o be held in eternal veneration, or execration. If you tand out, your names cannot be too much applauded y all Europe, and all future generations, which is the

hearty desire and wish of us, who are, with utmost respect, your most obedient and humble servants.

ISRAEL PUTNAM,

JOSEPH HOLLAND,

Committee of Corres

pondence for the

DANIEL TYLER, JR.) Parish of Brooklyn.

To Samuel Adams, Esq., Chairman to the Committee of Correspondence, Boston.

[Per favor Colonel PUTNAM.]

GENTLEMEN,

REPLY TO BROOKLYN.

Boston, 22d August, 1774.

The unexampled charity and munificence with which this distressed Town hath been treated by their brethren of the continent, must strike Europe with astonishment, as it doth our enemies with dismay. And if the fatal day arrives when tyranny shall ride triumphant, and corruption pervade the American States, our posterity also will look on the history of these times with an eye of infidelity.

The hearts of our poor have been made to sing for joy, and the blessings of those who were ready to perish resteth upon you. Our gratitude to you, Gentlemen, and the rest of our many kind benefactors, will best be shown by a perseverance and fixedness in the great cause of truth, religion, God, and posterity. In the mean time, accept our thanks, as an earnest of our sincere gratitude and firm resolution.

We felicitate you, Gentlemen, that in your region bribery and corruption are as yet only mere names. Alas, with us, they walk in darkness, and waste at noonday. They are not only in the secret recesses of cowardly conspirators, but in the high places of elevated malefactors. Whenever a revenue-chest, a board of commissioners, and a band of pensioners, civil, military and ecclesiastical, shall be stationed in your happy land, you will then realize the public calamity and danger of this oppressed people.

You

Our trials and temptations are many and great. have cherished us by your bounty, instructed us by your

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