The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775: And of the Committee of Safety, with an Appendix, Containing the Proceedings of the County Conventions-narratives of the Events of the Nineteenth of April, 1775-papers Relating to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and Other Documents, Illustrative of the Early History of the American Revolution

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20Representation to the Congress respecting John Wiley nominated to
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APRIL 28The commissary general directed to provide quarters for troops from
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MARCH 22Met according to adjournment and Rev Mr Emerson appointed
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DEC 10Expense of transmitting address to the Canadians to be paid by the gov
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Committee to publish the names of the mandamus counsellors
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DEC 6Adjourned to Jannary 26 1775
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28A number of guns were received from Grafton
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JUNE 29Report on the account of Mr Ichabod Goodwin
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JUNE 28Resolve for defending the towns on the sea coast
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OCT 28Committee to bring in a resolve relative to an equal representation of
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Instructions to the delegates to the New Hampshire Congress
42
Committee appointed to estimate the loss to the province by reason
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Mandamus counsellors who have not published a renunciation of their
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APRIL 22Congress meets at Concord Richard Devens chosen chairman
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JAN 26Committee relative to the nonconsumption covenants of the Continental
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30Report of the committee on the state of the province relative to what
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Resolves relative to the dissolution of this Congress and meeting of
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1775
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enforcement for the army
85
Form of receipt to be signed by the receiver general
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Congress adjourned to March 22d at Concord
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Address to the Stockbridge Indians
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Resolve for a nonconsumption agreement
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Town of Northfield desired to elect an additional member to the Con
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Report of the committee relative to absconding soldiers
131
FEB 1Meets at Cambridge
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County of LincolnCongress adjourns to meet at Concord
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Committee to notify the committee of safety of the time and place of
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46
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Order to Richard Derby to proceed with dispatches to London
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APRIL 27Committee to confer with the officers of the army relative to the
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MAY 1Mr Gerry directed to bring in a resolve granting leave to the members
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66
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Nov 23Congress meet according to the adjournment
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JUNE 7Committee to prepare a resolve for printing two resolves of the Continen
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Committee to prepare a commission for the officers of the army
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mitted
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12Committee to take into consideration the state of the province
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MAY 8Committee to transcribe the narrative of the proceedings of the kings
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JUNE 22Petition of Col Paul Dudley Sergeant
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Two muster masters appointed and report of the committee respecting
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JUNE 14Committee to consider some way of supplying arms to the soldiers
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Committee to take into consideration the proceedings of the town of Bris
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Resolve for the establishment of a regiment of artillery
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Committee appointed to consider measures for establishing post offices
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Committee to examine them
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Col Foster ordered to countersign the notes
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Report of the committee appointed to inquire into the circumstances
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Report of the committee relative to the prisoners at Dartmouth
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Report of the committee upon the resolve of the committee of safety
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14 Constables collectors of taxes and other officers advised not to
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Committee to consider what measures are necessary for the organization
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8Account of the taking of a sloop with stores for the army at Boston from
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Resolve respecting absconding soldiers
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Letter to the Continental Congress
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Proceedings of the Continental Congress reported and committed
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ative to advance pay to the soldiers
282
Committee to prepare a plan for the defence and safety of the govern
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160
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Letter to Col Benedict Arnold relative to his conquests at Ticonderoga
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Committee to consider a proposal relative to the removal of the poor
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of Harvard College
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Report of the committee to bring in a resolve for a day of fasting
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22Report of the committee on the petition from the inhabitants of Deer
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9Petition from the selectmen of Manchester
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Ordered to examine the medical stores
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300 315
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Letter to the Continental Congress relative to the battle of Bunker hill
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JUNE 24Committee to consider the expediency of stationing a part of Col Phin
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26Order for an inquiry into the conduct of Capt Thompson at Falmouth
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ton
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JUNE 26General Whitcomb commissioned as major general
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Report of the committee to inquire into the state of the army
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cepted
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Order for paying the expenses of Doct Whitings mission to New York
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Committee to examine the accounts of Major Barber
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Gentlemen appointed to administer oaths to the soldiers
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over money in their hands to the crown officer but to retain it sub
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Vote of thanks to the president
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Orders relative to supplying the tables of Generals Washington and Lee
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9Letter from Mr John Scollay relative to the poor of the town of Boston
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Committee to bring in a resolve empowering the committee of supplies
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arms and ammunition
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Proceedings of Congress relating to the case of Col Jonathan Brewer
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Committee to consider some method of supplying the recruiting officers
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Committees to examine certain prisoners from Machias and to consider
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Nov 8Mr Gill desired to get seven large cannon from Boston
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THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY AND THE COMMITTEE OF SUPPLIES
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Votes for the purchase removal and deposit of ammunition warlike
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66
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25Members of the constitutional council invited to take seats in the Pro
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19A committee appointed to inquire into the state and operations of
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Vote relative to a number of recantations from Marblehead
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MAY 4Petition from Brunswick for powder and arms
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1774
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Communications relative to certain intended movements of the British
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Resolve for preventing persons inimical to the colony from removing with
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21
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Resolves authorizing the person and goods of Ensign Campbell to
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12Three armorers appointed
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66
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Letters from the president of the Continental Congress relative to the form
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12Address of the committee to his excellency Thomas Gage
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Committee to consider what military exercise will be best for the people
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1774
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31Resolutions reported by the committee and accepted
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SEPT 6Convention met at the house of Timothy Bigelow
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6Delegates to the Continental Congress to hold their offices to the 31st
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The convention dissolved
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The poor of Boston and Charlestown recommended to the charity of
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NARRATIVES OF THE EXCURSION OF THE KINGS TROOPS
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List of the Provincials who were killed wounded or missing in the action
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Statements of the losses sustained by the inhabitants from the ravages of the Brit
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MAY 11Letter of Edward Mott to the Provincial Congress containing an
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Instructions to Col Benedict Arnold
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27Letter from the General Assembly of Connecticut to the Provincial Con
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dians
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OCT 8Resolve approving the opposition of Massachusetts to the acts of parlia
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1775
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20Report of the committee to inquire into the state and operations of
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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
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Letter from the inhabitants of Montreal to the committee of safety on the state
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Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Bowdoin to the committee of safety giving informa
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Col Richmond appointed to countersign the colony notes
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Outrage by British troops in Boston upon Thomas Ditson of Billerica
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46
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35
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Committee to enquire into the conduct of the towns relative to the prison
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SEPT 14Resolutions of the Middlesex Convention were presented and read
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Henry Gardner Esq appointed receiver general
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bridge
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Committee to prepare a resolution recommending the saving of linen
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Mr Benjamin Hall chosen in place of Mr Greenleaf of the committee
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