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. Pub. Agreeably to a Resolve Passed March 10, 1837, Under the Supervision of William Lincoln

Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the State, 1838 - Massachusetts - 778 pages

Contents

• 1774: 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
• on the safety and defence of the province considered and: 31
• APRIL 23Congress meets at Concord Richard llrvcns chosen chairman: 36
• OCT 28Committee to bring in a resolve relative to an equal representation of: 40
• JUNE 29Report on the account of Mr Ichahod Goodwin: 42
• Waller Spooner one of his majestys constitutional council desired: 49
• DEC 1Report of the committee on ihe proceedings of the Continental Congress: 54
• HAY 24Recommendations to Congress to take some order respecting the remo: 57
• commissions: 61
• Report of the committee relative to assuming civil government taken: 72
• Die 10Expense of transmitting address to the Canadians to be paid by the gov: 74
• FIB 9Committee to report a resolve for the publication of the names of: 94
• 16Committee to correspondwith the neighhoring government: 106
• MARcH 22Met according tn adjournment and Rev Mr Emerson appointed: 109
• 4Letter to the Rev Dr Kirkland with an address to the Mohawk: 118
• APRIL 27Committee to confer with the officers of the army relative to the: 160
• MAT 1Mr Gerry directed to bring in a resolve granting leave lo the members: 174
• JUKE 7Committee to prepare a resolve for printing two resolves of the Continen: 185
• MAY 3Rev Mr Gordon requested to officiate as chaplain: 189
• MAT 8Committee to transcribe the narrative of Ihe proceedings of the kings: 201
• MAY 10Committee to consider a resolve of the committee of safety relative: 212
• 15Ordered that a committee he directed to desire the Continental Congress: 224
• MAY 18Report of the committee relative to the attack upon the kings ships: 237
• JUitI 17Colonels Davit and Jonathan Brewer recommended to Congress for com: 242
• MAT 22Committee to take the above letter into consideration 851: 251
• MAT 31Convened in Watertown Samuel Freeman chosen secretary and: 273
• JUHE 1Report of the committee appointed to consider Gen Thomas letter rel: 282
• JINK 10Committee to consider the expediency of establishing a numher of armed: 318
• JORK 14Committee to consider some way of supplying arms to the soldiers: 332
• Jen 16Deacon Plympton appointed to countersign the notes: 347
• JUNE 20Committee to report a resolve relative to the killed and wounded in: 360
• JUNE 22Petition of Col Paul Dudley Sergeant 874: 374
• arms to the soldiers c 34: 380
• JasL 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 roust: 412
• JOVE SOResolve recommending to Congress to take measures In prevent: 423
• JOLY 1Committec to bring in a resolve for removing the sick and wounded to: 436
• JOLT 4Committee lo report an establishment for the commissary of medical: 446
• Resolve fi paying the account of Mrs Dorothy Coolidge: 459
• JULY 6Resolve relative to impressing a saw mill: 460
• our cuemics with provisions: 469
• Committee to consider the difficulties in the way of supplying thc Indians: 477
• JULY 10Letter from Gen Lee relative lo an interview with Gen Burgoync: 481
• Committee of supplies recommended to procure a quantity of provisions: 505
• NOT 8Mr Gill desired to get seven lare cannon from Boston: 506
• APRIL 5Committee of supplies to furnish an exact account of all the provisions: 514
• zation thereof: 520
• APRIL 28The commissary general directed to provide quarters for troops from: 525
• Petition of the selectmen of said towns: 535
• MIT 14Vote relative to the treatment of persons escaping from their imprison: 546
• 18Letter to the commanding officers of the militia of certain towns for: 571
• 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
• IIResolves for sending Monsieur Viart a Frenchman to the town of Wor: 594
• JULY 11Resolve relative to fifteen prisoners taken at Long Island: 595
• Convention of Suffolk County: 601
• Convention of Essex County: 615
• Convention of Hampshire County: 618
• Convention of Bristol County: 626
• SEPT 6Convention met at the honse of Timothy Bigelow: 635
• DEC 6Adjourned to January 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
• 30Letter from Benedict Arnold to the committee of safely 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
• OCT 8Resolve approving the opposition of Massachusetts to the acts of parlia: 729
• 1775: 737
• MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS: 743
• Letter fromlhe inhabilants of Montreal to the committee of safely on the state: 751
• Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Bowdoin to the committee of safety giving informa: 753

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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 ...
• Contributor: Massachusetts. Provincial Congress
• Publisher: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the State, 1838
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Aug 29, 2006
• Length: 778 pages