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

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress

Dutton and Wentworth, printers to the state, 1838 - Massachusetts - 778 pages

Contents

• 1774: 1
• SEPT 6 7Resolutions reported by the committee and unanimously accepted 616: 3
• Provincial Congress formed at Salem List of the delegates Original: 7
• APRIL 28The commissary general directed to provide quarters for troops from: 21
• JULY 7Report of the committee relative to the expense of providing spears: 22
• OCT 20Committee to consider what is necessary for the defence and safety of: 23
• Feb 9Committee to report a resolve for the publication of the names of: 25
• APRIL 22Congress meets at Concord Richard Devens chosen chairman: 36
• Oct 28Committee to bring in a resolve relative to an equal representation of: 40
• Walter Spooner one of his majestys constitutional council desired: 49
• Dec 1Report of the committee on the proceedings of the Continental Congress: 54
• Dec 10_Expense of transmitting address to the Canadians to be paid by the gov: 74
• 1775: 75
• tions for the army: 95
• 16Committee to correspond with the neighboring governments: 106
• MARCH 22Met according to adjournment and Rev Mr Emerson appointed: 109
• 4Letter to the Rev Dr Kirkland with an address to the Mohawk: 118
• APRIL 7Two members added to the committee on the state of the province: 132
• 11Instructions to the delegates appointed to repair to the neighboring col: 138
• 28Committee to confer with the deputies from New Hampshire: 161
• 30Account of the cannon and ordnance stores of the province: 171
• May 1Mr Gerry directed to bring in a resolve granting leave to the members: 174
• JUNE 7Committee to prepare a resolve for printing two resolves of the Continen: 185
• May 3Rev Mr Gordou requested to officiate as chaplain: 189
• Leller to the selectmen of Hopkinton respecting the removal of disaffect: 203
• 10General officers directed to call in all the soldiers who are enlisted in: 210
• May 10Committee to consider a resolve of the committee of safety relative: 212
• Committee appointed to consider measures for establishing post offices: 219
• May 18Report of the committee relative to the attack upon the kings ships: 237
• JUNE 17Colonels David and Jonathan Brewer recommended to Congress for com: 242
• May 22Committee to take the above letter into consideration: 251
• 29Letter to the Continental agress upon the necessity of maintaining: 265
• MAY 31Convened Watertown Samuel Freeman chosen secretary and: 273
• JUNE 1Report of the committee appointed to consider Gen Thomas letter rel: 282
• JUNE 2Committee to consider what is best to be done with the horses taken from: 292
• Letter from the Stockbridge Indians: 311
• JUNE 10Committee to consider the expediency of establishing a number of armed: 318
• JUNE 14Committee to consider some way of supplying arms to the soldiers: 332
• JUNE 16Deacon Plympton appointed to countersign the notes: 347
• Committee of supplies directed to write to Rhode Island and New Hamp: 354
• JUNE 20_Committee to report a resolve relative to the killed and wounded in: 360
• ry to Cambridge: 367
• JUNE 22Petition of Col Paul Dudley Sergeant: 374
• JUNE 24Committee to consider the expediency of stationing a part of Col Phin: 383
• JUNE 26General Whitcomb commissioned as major general: 400
• JUNE 28Resolve for defending the towns on the sea coast: 412
• JULY 4Committee to report an establishment for the commissary of medical: 416
• JUNE 29Report on the account of Mr Ichabod Goodwin: 422
• JUNE 50_Resolve recommending to Congress to take measures to prevent: 423
• JULY 1Committee to bring in a resolve for removing the sick and wounded to: 436
• Resolve for paying Mr Josiah Stevens for his services in bringing letters: 444
• JULY 6Resolve relative to impressing a saw mill: 460
• July 10Letter from Gen Lee relative to an interview with Gen Burgoyne: 481
• JULY 12Resolve recommending the return of able bodied men to the sea port: 492
• Committee to revise and explain the commission of the committee: 498
• Nov 2John Pigeon appointed clerk of the committee of safety: 505
• Nov 8Mr Gill desired to get seven large cannon from Boston: 506
• Mar 14Vote relative to the treatment of persons escaping from their imprison: 516
• Resolve for enlisting an army of eight thousand men and for the organi: 520
• removal: 526
• Mar 4Petition from Brunswick for powder and arms: 535
• 19Colonels Gerrish and Learned recommended to Congress to be commis: 552
• May 24_Recommendations to Congress to take some order respecting the remo: 557
• ments: 581
• July 1Order for the disposal of the hay under the care of Mr David Sanger: 584
• July 11Resolve relative to fifteen prisoners taken at Long Island: 595
• Convention of Suffolk County: 601
• 13Governor Gage refuses to receive the address of the committee in form: 609
• Convention of Essex County: 615
• Convention of Hampshire County: 618
• Convention of Bristol County: 626
• SEPT 6Convention met at the house of Timothy Bigelow: 635
• Dec 6 Adjourned to Jannary 26 1775: 648
• inhabitants of the county: 655
• NARRATIVES OF THE EXCURSION OF THE KINGS TROOPS: 661
• List of the Provincials who were killed wounded or missing in the action: 678
• Statements of the losses sustained by the inhabitants from the ravages of the Brit: 684
• APRIL 30Letter from Benedict Arnold to the committee of safety stating the mil: 694
• List of cannon mortars and stores taken at Ticonderoga and Crown: 700
• JUNE 1Leller from Gov Trumbull to the Provincial Congress respecting: 714
• JULY 6Report of the committee appointed by the Provincial Congress to pro: 717
• 7Letter from the Congress of New York to the Committee of Safety: 724
• Oct 8Resolve approving the opposition of Massachusetts to the acts of parlia: 729
• May 11Resolutions of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts letters and: 740
• Letter from Joseph Hawley to Thomas Cushing relating to the powers of the com: 748
• Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Bowdoin to the committee of safety giving informa: 753
• 523: 759
• 237: 764

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• Title: 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 ...
• Author: Massachusetts. Provincial Congress
• Publisher: Dutton and Wentworth, printers to the state, 1838
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Aug 29, 2006
• Length: 778 pages