1775. |
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May 3, |
Committee of Supplies directed to furnish Colonel Benedict Arnold ten Horses, and Powder, Lead and Flints, |
782 |
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Committee to revise the Commission of the Committee of Supplies, |
782 |
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Receiver-General directed to borrow One Hundred Thousand Pounds, |
782 |
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Horses and Carriages of Members of this Congress excepted from impressment, |
783 |
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Committee to procure a Copperplate for printing the Colony Notes, |
783 |
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Rev. Mr. Gordon chosen Chaplain to the Congress during their session in Watertown, |
783 |
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Report of Committee on liberating Prisoners taken by Gen. Gage, the 19th of April, (Note,) |
784 |
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Resolve on the same subject, |
784 |
4, |
Pay to the Soldiers advanced, |
784 |
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Committee to hold a Conference with the Delegates from Connecticut to General Gage, |
785 |
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Their Report, |
785 |
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Committee to prepare a Letter to the Assembly of Connecticut, on their application to General Gage, |
785 |
5, |
Resolution of April 1, recommending the Writs of General Gage, for electing Members of an Assembly, should be obeyed, reconsidered and rescinded, and declare that no obedience ought in future to be paid to his Writs, Proclamations, or any other of his doings, |
786 |
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Letter to the Assembly of Connecticut, |
786 |
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Letter to General Ward, on the obstruction to the liberation of the Inhabitants of Boston, |
787 |
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New Provincial Congress to be elected, to meet on the 31st of May, |
788 |
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Resolution from the Committee of Safety, that Government in full form ought to be taken up, to be considered on the 9th instant, |
788 |
6, |
Committee of Safety authorized to procure Powder from any Colony on the Continent, |
789 |
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Committee to consider the Letter received yesterday from the Speaker of the Assembly of Connecticut, |
789 |
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Committee of Supplies authorized to import Military Stores from such place and in such quantities as they may judge proper, |
789 |
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Committee to ascertain what number of Province Arms there are in the Province, |
790 |
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Establishment for the Train, |
790 |
7, |
Committee of Supplies authorized to procure Fire-Arms and Bayonets from any Colony on the Continent, |
790 |
8, |
Oath to be administered to the Officers and Private Soldiers of the Army now raising in this Colony, |
791 |
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Letter to the Selectmen of Hopkinton, |
791 |
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Letter from Committee of Portsmouth, of the 6th instant, |
792 |
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Letter from General Ward, |
792 |
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Answer to the Letter from Portsmouth, |
792 |
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Committees of Correspondence of the several Towns to inquire into the principles and conduct of suspected persons, and to cause all to be disarmed who are found unfriendly to the rights and liberties of America, |
793 |
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Letter to General Ward, |
794 |
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Consideration of the expediency of assuming Government postponed to Friday, the 12th inst., |
794 |
9, |
Committee to prepare a spirited application to General Gage, respecting his treatment of the Inhabitants of Boston, |
795 |
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Resolutions on the false account of the late Excursion of the Kings Troops, |
795 |
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Resolution for supplying those Soldiers with Fire-Arms who are not equipped therewith, |
796 |
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Twenty Armourers to be appointed by the Committee of Safety, to repair the Arms of the Soldiers of the Massachusetts Army, |
796 |
10, |
Letter to General Gage, on his violation of the Agreement for the removal of the Inhabitants of Boston, |
798 |
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Report on the Complaint made against Samuel Pain and William Campbell, by the Selectmen of Worcester, |
799 |
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Committee to consider the Applications from the Eastern parts of the Province, for Arms and Ammunition, |
799 |
1775. |
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May 11, |
Resolutions providing for a present supply of Powder to the most exposed of the Eastern Towns, |
799 |
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Committee to write a Letter to New-York, advising them of the sailing of two Men-of-War from Boston, |
800 |
12, |
Committee to consider the expediency of raising a Company or two of Indians, |
800 |
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All persons required to give Rev. Mr. Gordon free access to the Prisoners, |
800 |
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Committee to write to the Continental Congress, for obtaining their recommendation for this Colony to take up and exercise Civil Government, |
801 |
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General Ward directed to order four respectable Officers to escort the President to Colonel Quincy, at Braintree, to-morrow morning, |
801 |
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Committee to estimate the damages done at Concord, Lexington, and Cambridge, by the Kings Troops, on the 19th of April, |
801 |
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Establishment for the Companies of Matrosses, |
801 |
13, |
Committee to take a third set of Depositions relative to the Battle of Lexington, |
802 |
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Post-Roads established, |
802 |
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Post-Masters appointed, |
803 |
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Rates of Postage, |
803 |
15, |
Committee to attend the Provincial Congress of New-Hampshire, |
803 |
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Committee to prepare the Application to the Continental Congress directed to desire the Congress to take charge of directing and regulating the American Forces, |
804 |
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Committee to examine the Letters of Governonr Hutchinson, lately discovered, and report such Letters and Extracts as they think it will be proper to publish, |
804 |
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Persons prohibited from removing their Goods and Effects out of the Colony, without permission of the Committee of Correspondence of the Town they belong to, |
804 |
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Committee of Falmouth authorized to send an Embassy to Canada, to ascertain the designs and manuvres of the Inhabitants of that Colony, |
804 |
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Report of Committee to authorize the establishment of a Court of Inquiry, to hear and decide on complaints against any person for treason against the Constitution of their Country, submitted, debated, and rejected, |
805 |
16, |
Committee to consider the verbal information of the capture of three Vessels, by a Kings Cutter, at Dartmouth, |
806 |
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Dr. Church appointed to go to the Continental Congress, with the application from this Congress, |
806 |
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Instructions to the Delegates to the New-Hampshire Congress, |
806 |
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Officers of the Artillery allowed to enlist Man from the other Regiments, |
807 |
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Committee to consider what should be done relative to the Prisoners in Boston, and the Inhabitants who are there kept in duresse, |
807 |
17, |
Letter from Edward Mott, dated May 11, giving an account of the capture of Ticonderoga, and a Letter from Ethan Allen, received and read, |
807 |
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Colonel Easton, from Ticonderoga, introduced to the House, and each Member authorized to ask him any questions, |
807 |
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Form of Oath to be taken by the General Officers, |
808 |
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Letter to Assembly of Connecticut, proposing to have the Cannon and Stores taken at Ticonderoga forwarded to the Army at Cambridge, |
808 |
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Colonel Allen to remain in possession of Ticonderoga and its dependencies, that Fortress having surrendered to him and others |
808 |
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Connecticut requested to garrison and maintain Ticonderoga, until the advice of the Continental Congress can be had, |
809 |
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Committee to revise the Commission of the Committee of Safety, |
809 |
18, |
Officers of the Army of this Colony disqualified from being Members of the Provincial Congress, |
809 |
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Committee of Safety elected, |
810 |
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Report of Committee on the application of Lady Frankland, |
810 |
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Mr. Craft sent for; the allegations against him |
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