The Provincial Committees of Safety of the American Revolution |
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Page 21 - The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm upon my left.
Page 2 - There seems to have been no doubt in the minds of the members of the First Committee as to the meaning of the words "still in force
Page 15 - That it be recommended to the several provincial assemblies or conventions or councils, or committees of safety, to arrest and secure every person in their respective colonies whose going at large, may, in their opinion, endanger the safety of the colony or the liberties of America.
Page 8 - Congress had adopted a resolution "that a secret committee of five proper persons be appointed by the President of this Congress to procure and distribute such articles as the present insecure state of the interior parts of this colony renders necessary for the better defence and security of the good people of those parts and other necessary purposes.
Page 4 - Such an administration, the immediate offspring of necessity, might have been reasonably expected to be subversive of that liberty which it was intended to secure. But in the course of more than two years, during which it was cheerfully submitted to by all, except the advocates for British usurpation, although many occasions occurred in which an intemperate zeal transported men beyond the just bounds of moderation, not a single person fell a victim to the oppression of this irregular government....
Page 4 - Esquires, be constituted, and they are hereby constituted, a Council of Safety, with full power to promote and provide, for the preservation of the Commonwealth, by such regulations and ordinances as to them shall seem necessary...
Page 19 - State, expressly declared that this power and authority was "thus delegated and referred in consideration of the extraordinary and peculiar circumstances of the case, and not to be drawn into precedent in the future.
Page 15 - ... Colonies; rejects it however, owing to the good feeling between France and Great Britain. LS 1 p. (In French.) X, 13. From [Francis Dashwood, Baron] Le Despencer and HF Thynne, His Majesty's Postmaster-General. 1776. January 5. London. A table of the rates of postage. Printed broadside. 1 p. XII, 45. From The Committee of Inspection and Observation [of the City of Philadelphia]. 1776. February 5. [Philadelphia.] Declaring John Drinker, Thomas and Samuel Fisher enemies to their country and precluded...