A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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cc ly to be wiilied for; and will it not be
u,€onfill:ent .with your duty to fufpend
Ie the operations of war on your part, and
II' enable us on ours to quiet the minds of
rc the people, at leaft, till the reCuit of
"fome further deliberations may be
" known 1'1 &c. &c.
From this letter, written as it was by
the Governor of a province," at the de£re
of its General Affeqlbly, the people of
England may learn to think of American
as they do of French fincerity. It is almolt
pall: credit, that, amidft the earneft
proteftations it contains of a peaceable
difpofition in Mr. Trumbull and the reft
of his coadjutors in the government of
Connecticut, they were meditating, and
aetuaUytaking meafures for the capture
of certain of the Kin 9 's forts) and the deftrutl:ion
of General Gage and his whole
army, inftead of quieting the minds of the
people! Yet! fuch was the fact. They
bad commiffioned Motte and Phelps to
D d draught