This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...the Continental Congress, and at the same time to press for a supply of arms. Their letters were laid, July 3, before the Provincial Congress, which, impressed with the importance of the news, sent both Wheelock and Dean, with Captain Bedel, to confer at once with the Assembly of Massachusetts. By the advice of both Assemblies, the matter was commended to the Continental Congress, and Dean, agreeably to the design with which he left Hanover, proceeded to Philadelphia, introduced by letters from Wheelock and from President Weare. On the way he communicated with the authorities of Connecticut, and made renewed appeals for weapons and ammunition with which to arm the frontier, but was, as in the other Colonies, still unsuccessful. Wheelock took this opportunity to inform the Continental Congress, by a letter to Mr. Silas Deane, --"That this College and the neighboring towns are almost wholly unarmed and defenceless, and that notwithstanding much pains have been used, no door is yet opened for supply of that necessity; and we now hear that a large number of fire-arms have lately been brought in to Philadelphia, and don't hear of any to be had nearer. We want about an hundred to supply my family, --that is, the College, School, and those connected with it. I have upwards of thirty on charity, and so indigent that they are not able to purchase them; and this is the common calamity of all these frontier settlements." He at the same time added a "hint that Mr. Dean's late mission has been, and his present journey now, is wholly at my 1 N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., iii. 383; N. H. State Papers, vii. 532, 547, 561-62; see Wheelock's letter to N. H. Congress, Am. Archives, Series ii., vol. ii. p. 1541. expense, and that resources from Europe...