| Description | Enclosing a letter from his nephew in New Jersey, relative to the temper etc of the Americans
Enclosure, John Hatton to the Reverend Thomas Hatton, 17 Feb 1775, New Jersey, private news, this country in a most disordered state, friends of Government very precariously situated and commerce stopped, states objections made by the Sons of Liberty to the measures of Parliament and the answers given by the Sons of Loyalty (of whom he is one) to show the true foundation of the present dispute, details the recent obnoxious conduct of the Bostonians, steps taken by the Quakers, the Sons of Faction grieved at the refusal of the New York Assembly to approve the proceedings of the Congress, and the merchants of that place in general threaten a total declension from the party |