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
• OCT 20Committee to consider what is necessary for the defence and safety of: 3
• 5Committee to inform Gen Washington of the intention of Congress: 5
• APRIL 7Two members added to the committee on the state of the province: 6
• 7Their resolutions on the refusal of the governor to meet them and: 7
• JULY 11Resolve relative to fifteen prisoners taken at Long Island: 12
• 14Letter of Benedict Arnold to the same giving information of the cap: 14
• MAY 14Vote relative to the treatment of persons escaping from their imprison: 18
• 20Representation to the Congress respecting John Wiley nominated to: 20
• APRIL 28The commissary general directed to provide quarters for troops from: 21
• MARCH 22Met according to adjournment and Rev Mr Emerson appointed: 22
• DEC 10Expense of transmitting address to the Canadians to be paid by the gov: 24
• Committee to publish the names of the mandamus counsellors: 25
• DEC 6Adjourned to Jannary 26 1775: 26
• 28A number of guns were received from Grafton: 28
• JUNE 29Report on the account of Mr Ichabod Goodwin: 30
• JUNE 28Resolve for defending the towns on the sea coast: 32
• OCT 28Committee to bring in a resolve relative to an equal representation of: 40
• Instructions to the delegates to the New Hampshire Congress: 42
• Committee appointed to estimate the loss to the province by reason: 52
• Mandamus counsellors who have not published a renunciation of their: 61
• APRIL 22Congress meets at Concord Richard Devens chosen chairman: 66
• JAN 26Committee relative to the nonconsumption covenants of the Continental: 69
• 30Report of the committee on the state of the province relative to what: 72
• Resolves relative to the dissolution of this Congress and meeting of: 73
• 1775: 75
• enforcement for the army: 85
• Form of receipt to be signed by the receiver general: 101
• Congress adjourned to March 22d at Concord: 109
• Address to the Stockbridge Indians: 115
• 29: 126
• Resolve for a nonconsumption agreement: 127
• Town of Northfield desired to elect an additional member to the Con: 129
• Report of the committee relative to absconding soldiers: 131
• FEB 1Meets at Cambridge: 140
• County of LincolnCongress adjourns to meet at Concord: 141
• Committee to notify the committee of safety of the time and place of: 147
• 46: 153
• Order to Richard Derby to proceed with dispatches to London: 159
• 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
• 66: 176
• Nov 23Congress meet according to the adjournment: 178
• JUNE 7Committee to prepare a resolve for printing two resolves of the Continen: 185
• Committee to prepare a commission for the officers of the army: 187
• mitted: 192
• 12Committee to take into consideration the state of the province: 193
• MAY 8Committee to transcribe the narrative of the proceedings of the kings: 201
• JUNE 22Petition of Col Paul Dudley Sergeant: 203
• Two muster masters appointed and report of the committee respecting: 208
• JUNE 14Committee to consider some way of supplying arms to the soldiers: 209
• Committee to take into consideration the proceedings of the town of Bris: 211
• Resolve for the establishment of a regiment of artillery: 213
• Committee appointed to consider measures for establishing post offices: 219
• Committee to examine them: 225
• Col Foster ordered to countersign the notes: 227
• Report of the committee appointed to inquire into the circumstances: 232
• 17: 233
• Report of the committee relative to the prisoners at Dartmouth: 235
• Report of the committee upon the resolve of the committee of safety: 236
• 14 Constables collectors of taxes and other officers advised not to: 239
• Committee to consider what measures are necessary for the organization: 245
• 8Account of the taking of a sloop with stores for the army at Boston from: 257
• Resolve respecting absconding soldiers: 258
• Letter to the Continental Congress: 264
• Proceedings of the Continental Congress reported and committed: 276
• ative to advance pay to the soldiers: 282
• Committee to prepare a plan for the defence and safety of the govern: 285
• 160: 287
• Letter to Col Benedict Arnold relative to his conquests at Ticonderoga: 288
• Committee to consider a proposal relative to the removal of the poor: 299
• 301: 301
• of Harvard College: 302
• Report of the committee to bring in a resolve for a day of fasting: 305
• 22Report of the committee on the petition from the inhabitants of Deer: 306
• 303: 307
• 9Petition from the selectmen of Manchester: 313
• Ordered to examine the medical stores: 318
• Report of a committee respecting a vessel going from Salem for provis: 324
• 26Report on the safety and defence of the province considered and: 330
• Resolve for loaning a horse to the Rev Mr Emerson: 335
• 7Committee of supplies directed to procure such a number of firearms: 340
• 17Committee to consider the expediency of procuring arms and ammunition: 347
• Resolve for the appointment of deputy commissaries: 362
• Order for commissioning the officers of Col Glovers regiment: 374
• Committee on the petition of Mr Parry: 375
• 300 315: 378
• Letter to the Continental Congress relative to the battle of Bunker hill: 380
• 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
• ton: 398
• JUNE 26General Whitcomb commissioned as major general: 400
• Report of the committee to inquire into the state of the army: 405
• cepted: 417
• Order for paying the expenses of Doct Whitings mission to New York: 423
• Committee to examine the accounts of Major Barber: 430
• Gentlemen appointed to administer oaths to the soldiers: 436
• over money in their hands to the crown officer but to retain it sub: 449
• Vote of thanks to the president: 460
• Orders relative to supplying the tables of Generals Washington and Lee: 468
• 9Letter from Mr John Scollay relative to the poor of the town of Boston: 476
• Committee to bring in a resolve empowering the committee of supplies: 477
• arms and ammunition: 488
• Proceedings of Congress relating to the case of Col Jonathan Brewer: 489
• Committee to consider some method of supplying the recruiting officers: 493
• Committees to examine certain prisoners from Machias and to consider: 499
• Nov 8Mr Gill desired to get seven large cannon from Boston: 506
• THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY AND THE COMMITTEE OF SUPPLIES: 509
• Votes for the purchase removal and deposit of ammunition warlike: 517
• 66: 521
• 25Members of the constitutional council invited to take seats in the Pro: 523
• 19A committee appointed to inquire into the state and operations of: 529
• Vote relative to a number of recantations from Marblehead: 531
• MAY 4Petition from Brunswick for powder and arms: 535
• 1774: 536
• Communications relative to certain intended movements of the British: 541
• Resolve for preventing persons inimical to the colony from removing with: 546
• 21: 556
• Resolves authorizing the person and goods of Ensign Campbell to: 560
• 12Three armorers appointed: 565
• 66: 575
• 582: 583
• Letters from the president of the Continental Congress relative to the form: 602
• 12Address of the committee to his excellency Thomas Gage: 607
• Committee to consider what military exercise will be best for the people: 611
• 1774: 613
• 31Resolutions reported by the committee and accepted: 632
• SEPT 6Convention met at the house of Timothy Bigelow: 635
• 6Delegates to the Continental Congress to hold their offices to the 31st: 640
• The convention dissolved: 648
• The poor of Boston and Charlestown recommended to the charity of: 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
• MAY 11Letter of Edward Mott to the Provincial Congress containing an: 694
• Instructions to Col Benedict Arnold: 698
• 27Letter from the General Assembly of Connecticut to the Provincial Con: 709
• dians: 715
• OCT 8Resolve approving the opposition of Massachusetts to the acts of parlia: 729
• 1775: 737
• 20Report of the committee to inquire into the state and operations of: 741
• 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
• Col Richmond appointed to countersign the colony notes: 759
• Outrage by British troops in Boston upon Thomas Ditson of Billerica: 760
• 46: 761
• 35: 762
• Committee to enquire into the conduct of the towns relative to the prison: 763
• SEPT 14Resolutions of the Middlesex Convention were presented and read: 764
• Henry Gardner Esq appointed receiver general: 765
• bridge: 766
• 69: 770
• Committee to prepare a resolution recommending the saving of linen: 773
• Mr Benjamin Hall chosen in place of Mr Greenleaf of the committee: 775

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Bibliographic information

• 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