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From Joseph Haisley to The Committee of the Continental 

 Congress. 1775. October 23. Cambridge. 



Informs them that Col. [James] Warren brought the Journal of 

 the House for 1758 and 1759 that they may satisfy themselves that 

 more was granted and paid in the last war to non-commissioned officers 

 and privates than the whole which had been engaged to the non- 

 commissioned officers and privates in the present service, by the late 

 Congress of this Colony [of Massachusetts Bay]. A. L. S. i p. 



XLVII, 63. 



From The Burgomasters of Ziericzee to P[etrus] Van Noemer. 

 1775, November 20. 



Translation of a letter concerning a request made to the latter to 

 give up the office of Deputy in the Council of State. His failure to 

 comply or to confer with the Sovereign of the State, as invited to do. 

 L. S. 2 p. (In French. Copy.) XLVII, 142. 



From [Baron] Johan Derek Van der Capellen to The Council of 



Nobles of the Province of Overyssel [Holland]. 



1775. December 16. 



Protest against granting the request made by the King of England 

 that the " Scotch Brigade " of troops in the service of the above 

 Province should be loaned to him for use in America. D. 4 p. (In 

 French.) LVII, 6. 



By [Joseph] Bartoli. 1775. London. 



Italian sonnet published in London on the occasion of the Thames 

 Regatta; the Bill against America had been entered in Parliament at 

 that time. English and French translations of the sonnet. Prose and 

 verse. 2 p. (Copy by M. L'heritier.) LI, 97. 



From Captain G[ustavus] Conyngham to Silas Deane. 

 1776. January 4. St. Sebastian. 



Case of the brig " Gracieux " captured by him, and a refutation of the 

 report that an insult was thereby given to the French flag. A. L. S. 

 3 p. XLVIII, 149. 



