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

• FIRST PROVINCIAL CONGRESS OF MASSACHUSETTS: 1
• 3Committee to consider a resolve of the committee of safety respecting: 3
• Provincial Congress formed at Salem List of the delegates Original: 7
• 20Report of the committee to inquire into the state and operations of: 23
• 26Several of the colonels are recommended by the committee to the Con: 26
• Ост 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
• commissions: 61
• DEC 10Expense of transmitting address to the Canadians to be paid by the gov: 74
• FEB 9Committee to report a resolve for the publication of the names of: 94
• 15Committee of correspondence of Boston directed to open a correspon: 100
• 16Committee to correspond with the neighboring governments: 106
• MARCH 22Met according to adjournment and Rev Mr Emerson appointed: 109
• APRIL 7Two members added to the committee on the state of the province: 132
• APRIL 22Congress meets at Concord Richard Devens chosen chairman: 147
• APRIL 27Committee to confer with the officers of the army relative to the: 160
• 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 Gordon requested to officiate as chaplain: 189
• 6Committee of supplies empowered to procure powder in any of the colo: 197
• MAY 8Committee to transcribe the narrative of the proceedings of the kings: 201
• MAY 10Committee to consider a resolve of the committee of safety relative: 212
• 15Ordered that a committee be directed to desire the Continental Congress: 224
• MAY 15Report of the committee appointed to bring in a resolve for establishing: 228
• 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
• MAY 31Convened in Watertown Samuel Freeman chosen secretary and: 273
• JUNE 1Report of the committee appointed to consider Gen Thomas letter rel: 282
• JUNE 10Committee to consider the expediency of establishing a number of armed: 318
• 14Resolves for the payment of advance pay to the soldiers under Col: 332
• 16Resolve for supplying the soldiers with rum: 340
• JUNE 16Deacon Plympton appointed to countersign the notes: 347
• 18Resolve for the security of the records and papers of Congress: 353
• JULY 1Committee to bring in a resolve for removing the sick and wounded to: 355
• JUNE 20Committee to report a resolve relative to the killed and wounded in: 360
• JUNE 22Petition of Col Paul Dudley Sergeant: 374
• JUNE 24Committee to consider the expediency of stationing a part of Col Phin: 383
• 26Order for an inquiry into the conduct of Capt Thompson at Falmouth: 397
• JUNE 26General Whitcomb commissioned as major general: 400
• Report of the committee relative to supplying the wounded persons in cap: 408
• JUNE 28Resolve for defending the towns on the sea coast: 412
• JUNE 29Report on the account of Mr Ichabod Goodwin: 422
• JUNE 50Resolve recommending to Congress to take measures to prevent: 423
• other colonies: 437
• Committee to report an establishment for the commissary of medical: 446
• Resolve for paying the account of Mrs Dorothy Coolidge: 459
• JULY 6Resolve relative to impressing a saw mill: 460
• JULY 7Report of the committee relative to the expense of providing spears: 469
• Committee to consider the difficulties in the way of supplying the Indians: 477
• 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
• THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY AND THE COMMITTEE OF SUPPLIES: 503
• Nov 8Mr Gill desired to get seven large cannon from Boston: 506
• APRIL 1The stores at Concord not to be removed without orders from the com: 514
• 28Vote relative to an establishment for post riders: 525
• Petition of the selectmen of said towns: 535
• MAY 14Vote relative to the treatment of persons escaping from their imprison: 546
• 27Order for securing animals put into the enclosures of Thomas Oliver: 558
• 25Representation to Congress relative to the appointment of two supervi: 577
• JULY 1Order for the disposal of the hay under the care of Mr David Sanger: 584
• 8Mr Jonathan Hastings recommended to Congress for postmaster at Cam: 592
• JULY 11Resolve relative to fifteen prisoners taken at Long Island: 595
• CONVENTIONS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE COUNTIES OF MASSA: 601
• 13Governor Gage refuses to receive the address of the committee in form: 609
• Convention of Essex County: 615
• SEPT 6 7Resolutions reported by the committee and unanimously accepted: 616
• 1774: 626
• 31Resolutions reported by the committee and accepted: 632
• SEPT 6Convention met at the house of Timothy Bigelow: 635
• 21Letter of apology from Mr Samuel Paine: 641
• DEC 6Adjourned to Jannary 26 1775: 648
• Convention of Cumberland 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
• 18Resolve of the Continental Congress relative to the removal of the can: 706
• 30Letter from James Easton to the Provincial Congress explaining his: 712
• JULY 6Report of the committee appointed by the Provincial Congress to pro: 717
• Letter from the same committee to the Congress of New York on: 723
• Ост 8Resolve approving the opposition of Massachusetts to the acts of parlia: 729
• 1775: 737
• MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS: 743
• Letter from the inhabitants of Montreal to the committee of safety on the state: 751
• Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Bowdoin to the committee of safety giving informa: 753
• Resolve for supplying the chaplain with a horse: 759

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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