Letter from Governour Penn to the Earl of Dartmouth

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Philadelphia, July 30, 1774.

MY LORD: I beg leave now to acquaint your Lordship that a meeting of Deputies from the several counties of this Province was held in this city on the 15th of this month, to consider of the most proper measures to be taken in the present differences between Great Britain and the Colonies. The principal business done at this Convention was forming a set of resolves, and preparing a draught of instructions to their Representatives, which they laid before the Assembly, and immediately afterwards published them. I herewith send your Lordship the newspaper containing those resolves and instructions, as also the resolutions of the Assembly thereupon, by which your Lordship will perceive that the steps taken by the Assembly are rather a check than an encouragement to the proceedings of the Committee, and this I was well assured would be the case.

I am with great respect, &c˙,

JOHN PENN.