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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17Officers to the companies of artillery appointed
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MAY 14Vote relative to the treatment of persons escaping from their imprison
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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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Committee to report a nonconsumption agreement
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JULY 4Committee to report an establishment for the commissary of medical
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25Committee on the nonconsumption agreement ordered to sit forthwith
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30Report of the committee on the state of the province relative to what
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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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Doings of the Continental Congress
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JUNE 10Committee to consider the expediency of establishing a number of armed
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Report of committee and resolves for the payment of the delegates to
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Mandamus counsellors who have not published a renunciation of their
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JAN 26Committee relative to the nonconsumption covenants of the Continental
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Militia and minute men recommended to perfect themselves forthwith
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APRIL 1Committee to prepare rules for the army report report passed and
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Address to the Stockbridge Indians
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gress
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FEB 1Meets at Cambridge
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1774
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Delegates to New Hampshire Connecticut and Rhode Island appointed
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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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Letter from James Angell respecting supplies from Rhode Island
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MAY 1Mr Gerry directed to bring in a resolve granting leave to the members
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Their report
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30Account of the cannon and ordnance stores of the province
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Reply of General Gage
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The committee appointed to consider the subject of advance pay to
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MAY 3Rev Mr Gordon requested to officiate as chaplain
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Resolve for the election of delegates to a new Provincial Congress
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MAY 8Committee to transcribe the narrative of the proceedings of the kings
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Committee to prepare an application to General Gage respecting
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Two muster masters appointed and report of the committee respecting
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Committee to consider some way of supplying arms to the soldiers
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MAY 10Committee to consider a resolve of the committee of safety relative
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JUNE 26General Whitcomb commissioned as major general
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16Committee to apply to the committee of safety for a list of persons
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Report of the committee upon the resolve of the committee of safety
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Report of a committee appointed to consider a false account of the late
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MAY 22Committee to take the above letter into consideration
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JULY 6Convention meets at Stockbridge
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Committee to report a resolve making further provision for distributing
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Committee to consider a proposal relative to the removal of the poor
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Resolve for furnishing the soldiers who are destitute with arms
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22Report of the committee on the petition from the inhabitants of Deer
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7Committee to wait on Gen Ward for a return of the number of men
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Ordered to examine the medical stores
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Report of a committee respecting a vessel going from Salem for provis
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Committee to consider the propriety of supplying the generals of the
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8Account of the taking of a sloop with stores for the army at Boston from
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7Committee of supplies directed to procure such a number of firearms
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from Philadelphia Report thereon
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JULY 1Committee to bring in a resolve for removing the sick and wounded to
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Committee to examine the accounts of Major Barber
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9Petition from the selectmen of Manchester
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Address to his excellency George Washington
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Report of the committee appointed to bring in a resolve for enforcing
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ings
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Resolve for paying Mr Josiah Stevens for his services in bringing letters
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of the sea coasts
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Rev Doct Appleton appointed chaplain
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Vote of thanks to the president
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Report on the petition of Joseph Hallet
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9Letter from Mr John Scollay relative to the poor of the town of Boston
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Committee to consider a letter from Gen Ward relative to supplies
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19Committee to consider the means of paying Col Eastons regiment
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Committee for publishing the names of the mandamus counsellors to pre
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actions to the Congress
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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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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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Several armorers appointed
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Resolves authorizing the person and goods of Ensign Campbell to
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ments
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Letter to Gen Washington relative to certain horses taken on Bunkers
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JULY 11Resolve relative to fifteen prisoners taken at Long Island
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CONVENTIONS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE COUNTIES OF MASSA
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Letters from the president of the Continental Congress relative to the form
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8Mr Jonathan Hastings recommended to Congress for postmaster at Cam
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Convention of Essex County
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31Resolutions reported by the committee and accepted
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The poor of Bostou 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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18Resolve for the security of the records and papers of Congress
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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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1Proclamations of Cols Allen and Easton to the French people of Canada
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8Committee to examine Major Skene lately appointed governor of Ticon
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the suspension of the administration of justice
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14Declaration of rights and statement of grievances
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Report of the committee on the letter from Machias
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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
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Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Bowdoin to the committee of safety giving informa
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Resolve for supplying the town of Harpswell with powder
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19A committee appointed to inquire into the state and operations of
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SEPT 14Resolutions of the Middlesex Convention were presented and read
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25Col Freeman directed to secure the whale boats at Cape Cod
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8Address to the inhabitants again reported and recommitted
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Resolve of the Continental Congress and letter of the Provincial Con
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