The Virginia Gazette

Last Evening the Committee of Correspondence received a very kind and affectionate Letter, covering the Proceedings and Resolves of the respectable Town of Farmington, in Connecticut, passed in a very full Meeting held there on the 16th Instant; the first of which imports, that the Act of Parliament for blocking up the Port of Boston is an Invasion of the Rights and Privileges of every American, and as such they are determined to oppose the same, together with all other such arbitrary and tyrannical Acts, in every suitable Way and Manner that may be adopted in general Congress. The last Vote respects the Distress this Town must be reduced to by Means of the Port Bill, and concludes with raising a Committee to take in Subscriptions of Wheat, Rye, Indian Corn, and other Provisions, of the Inhabitants of that Town, and to collect and transport the same to the Town of Boston; there to be delivered to the Selectmen of said Town, to be by them distributed at their Discretion, to those who are incapacitated to procure a necessary Subsistence, in Consequence of the late oppressive Measures of Administration.