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Letter to Editor
September 21, 1776
The Freeman's Journal, Or, New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A 1776 letter from Portsmouth urges local safety committees to emulate Middlesex, Massachusetts' resolve preventing hostile assemblies against the United States, citing dangerous meetings at Tory Hole.
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Mr. Printer,
IN looking over your useful Paper, I observed a resolve of the Committees of Correspondence, inspection and safety (of the County of Middlesex in Massachusetts Bay) purporting, that they were determined to use their best endeavours to prevent all persons, inimical to the Country, from assembling together, that they were judged to be forming Confederacies against the United States. a Committee was chose, who had full Power for preventing such Persons having any Intercourse with each other; the said Resolve is worthy of Imitation, and it is wished that the several Committees in this State, would follow the same in every Respect, as it is well known, that Persons inimical, assembles frequently at a House called Tory Hole, in this Town as the Consequences of their Consultations may prove more Dangerous, than we are at present aware of.
Portsmouth, September 20 1776.
IN looking over your useful Paper, I observed a resolve of the Committees of Correspondence, inspection and safety (of the County of Middlesex in Massachusetts Bay) purporting, that they were determined to use their best endeavours to prevent all persons, inimical to the Country, from assembling together, that they were judged to be forming Confederacies against the United States. a Committee was chose, who had full Power for preventing such Persons having any Intercourse with each other; the said Resolve is worthy of Imitation, and it is wished that the several Committees in this State, would follow the same in every Respect, as it is well known, that Persons inimical, assembles frequently at a House called Tory Hole, in this Town as the Consequences of their Consultations may prove more Dangerous, than we are at present aware of.
Portsmouth, September 20 1776.
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Political
What themes does it cover?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Committees Of Correspondence
Middlesex Resolve
Tory Hole
Portsmouth
Inimical Persons
Confederacies
1776
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Printer
Letter to Editor Details
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Mr. Printer
Main Argument
the writer urges local committees in the state to imitate a resolve from the middlesex county committees of correspondence, inspection, and safety in massachusetts bay by preventing persons inimical to the country from assembling and forming confederacies against the united states, noting frequent assemblies at tory hole in portsmouth that could prove dangerous.
Notable Details
References Resolve Of Middlesex Committees Of Correspondence, Inspection, And Safety
Mentions Committee Chosen With Full Power To Prevent Intercourse Among Inimical Persons
Highlights Tory Hole In Portsmouth As Site Of Frequent Assemblies