A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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- A P }> END I X. 401 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
402 A .p PEN D 1 X. draught mOen from the militia, if volunteers lhould not readily appear, for a fecret expedition, which proved to be againft Ticonderago and Crown-Point; and the treafurer of the colony, by order of the Governor and Council, had paid 15001. to bear their expences. Nay, even hefore the date of the above amicable epiftle, Motte and Phelps had left Hertford on that treafonable undertaking, in which they were joined on the way by Colonels Allen and Eafton. Nor was this the only· infidious enterprize they had to 'cover. The " good people" throughout the province, to the number of near 20,000, were fecretly arming themfelves, and filing off, to avoid fufpicion, in fmall parties of ten or a dozen, to meet" their brethren," the Maffachufets; not, however, with the view of" giving aid," U lhould any unjuftifiable attack be made er upon them," but to SURPRIZE Bpfton by fiorm. In addition to the Governor's
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