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Massachusetts–Bay—
Bunker’s Hill—Lady Frankland permitted to go into Boston—No Slaves to be admitted into the Army—Governour Hutchinson’s Papers in the hands of Captain McLane to be delivered up,
741-’64
Provincial Congress, 22d of April, 1775.—A Committee to take Depositions concerning the attack on Lexington and Concord—30, 000 Men necessary for defence—13, 600 to be raised by this Province—Mr. Sullivan sent to New-Hampshire Congress—Pay of the Army—State of the Funds—Secrecy in part enjoined—Richard Gridley appointed Chief Engineer—Connecticut and Rhode-Island applied to for Powder—Advise removal of effects from Seaport Towns—Committee appointed to ascertain number of killed, wounded, and murdered, on the 19th April—Draught of a Letter to New-Hampshire—No notice to be taken of the Precepts lately issued by General Gage for calling a General Assembly—Papers received from Committee of Safety—Rules and Regulations of Congress—Powers conferred on Committee of Supplies—Condition of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores—Form of Commission for Officers—Pass to be used by Members of Congress—Poor to be removed from Boston—Order of distribution and support—Inhabitants of Lexington and others supplied with Provisions—Letter to Delegates now in Connecticut—Authenticated copies of divers Papers sent to Continental Congress—Report of Committee of Ways and Means—£100, 000 to be raised on Colony securities—their form—Application to General Gage for release of Prisoners—Rev. Mr. Gordon chosen Chaplain—His Excellency General Gage denounced, and no obedience to be paid to any of his acts or doings—Delegates to new Congress to be chosen—Letter to Assembly of Connecticut—Letter to General Ward and Selectmen of Boston—Stores to be imported by Committee of Supplies—Pay of Artillery—Narrative of attack on Lexington and Concord to be published—Oath to be administered to Officers and Soldiers—Suspected persons on examination to be disarmed—Post-Offices and Riders to be established—Records of the several Counties to be secured—Remonstrance to General Gage—Rev. Mr. Gordon’s leave to visit British Prisoners—Proceedings on the proposition of taking up and exercising the powers of Civil Government in all its parts—Committee recommend application to Continental Congress on this subject—Rev. Dr. Langdon appointed to preach a Sermon on 31st May—Third Committee appointed to take Depositions concerning Battle of Lexington—Post-Offices, Post Roads, Postmasters, and Rates of Postage established—Resolution concerning the removal of effects out of the Colony—Embassy to Canada proposed—Court of Inquiry proposed—Doctor Church sent to American Congress with despatches—Communication to Connecticut on subject of assuming Government—Letter from Edward Mott and Ethan Allen, on capture of Ticonderoga—Oath of General Officers in the Army—Jonas Dix appointed to take Depositions on conduct of British Army—Letter to Assembly of Connecticut on capture of Ticonderoga—Army Officers recommended not to be chosen Members of Congress—Committee
Massachusetts–Bay—
of Safety chosen—Lady Frankland permitted to go to Boston—Powers of Committee of Safety—General Ward’s Commission—Depositions and Narrative of Excursion of the King’s Troops to Concord to be published in pamphlet form—Removal into Boston in part prohibited—Notes of Credit issued—Chaplains to the Army—Officers commissioned—Tories’ Estates not permitted to be alienated by them—Farther Organization of the Army—Proceedings against Ebenezer Cutler—Farther Proceedings respecting the Poor of Boston—Returns of the Officers of the respective Regiments,
763-830
General Assembly of—Proceedings of the Provincial Congress on Precepts lately issued by General Gage to convene,
772
Provincial Congress recommend not to obey such Precepts,
785-’6
Committee of Safety remodelled,
812
James Easton to Provincial Congress, on Ticonderoga,
849
Explanation of divers Inhabitants of Salem, concerning an Address to Gov. Hutchinson,
852
Brookfield Committee, Letter from Joshua Upham—denies being an enemy to his Country,
852
Committee of Safety to Sudbury Committee, releasing Ezra Taylor,
853
Hopkinton Selectmen to Provincial Congress,
853
Chebacco Committee, Letter from Manchester Committee, on Movements of the British,
854
Worcester Convention Proceedings,
865
Committee of Safety, Letter from R. Temple,
866
Stephen Nye to Nathaniel Freeman,
866
Provincial Congress, Letter from Selectmen of Scarborough,
867
Same, Letter from Selectmen of Edgartown,
867
Same, Letter from Inhabitants of Berwick,
867
Same, Letter from Selectmen of Bedford,
868
General Ward, Letter from New-Hampshire Congress,
868
Letter received at Watertown from London,
870
Letter from a Gentleman in Provincial Camp to New-York,
874
Alexander Walker’s Recantation,
875
Salem, “An American” to the Americans,
875
Provincial Congress, Letter from Reverend Samuel Langdon, communicating Resolutions of a Convention of Ministers concerning Chaplain,
875
Lunenburgh Selectmen to Dr. John Taylor, in Provincial Congress,
876
Provincial Congress, Petition of William Tallman and others,
876
Provincial Congress, Letter from William Lithgow,
894
Committee of Safety, Letter from Colonel Richard Gridley,
894
Provincial Congress, Letter to Henry Gardiner, Receiver-General, on signing Bills,
900
Arundel Committee to Provincial Congress, on seizure of a coasting Sloop by the British,
900-’2
Provincial Congress, Letter from Loammi Baldwin on Surveys and Instruments,
902
Same, Letter from New-Hampshire Congress, on Canada,
902
Committee of Safety, Letter from Mrs. Bowdoin,
906-’9
Captain Drury’s Company to General Ward,
914
Provincial Congress, Letter from Colonel Scammons’s Officers,
914
Same, Letter from James Easton, on Indians and Canada,
919
Committee of Safety, Letter from New-York Congress,
928

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