1775. |
Nov. 10, |
Letter from Stephen Moylan to James Warren, requesting for the General the papers taken in the Schooner from Ireland, |
1428 |
10, |
Letter from Stephen Moylan to the Committee of Newburyport, requesting them to send two barrels of Powder to the Indians about Penobscot, |
1429 |
10, |
Address to the Inhabitants of the American Colonies, No. 3, |
1429 |
|
MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. |
Sept. 20, |
The House met according to adjournment, |
1433 |
|
Committee on the Proceedings of the Committee of Deer Island, relative to the taking of two Vessels, |
1433 |
|
Committee to devise ways and means to supply the Army with Wood, |
1433 |
21, |
Permission to Warwick Palfrey to bring a cargo of Flour from Baltimore, |
1434 |
|
Committee to inquire of Captain Glover relative to the manufacture of Saltpetre at Windham, Connecticut, |
1434 |
|
Petition of Enoch Freeman, of Falmouth, requesting assistance in Powder, Ball, and Flints, |
1434 |
22, |
Committee to consider the expediency of paying off the Massachusetts Forces, to the 1st of August last, |
1434 |
|
Report of the Committee on supplying the Army with Wood, read and considered, and the matter was ordered to subside, |
1434 |
|
Committee to take a general view of the Trade of the Colony, |
1434 |
|
Committee on the capture of the Sloop Sally, taken from one Andrew Johnson, |
1434 |
|
Committee to consider the sufferings of Captain John Lane's Company, |
1435 |
|
Committee on disposing of the Estate of Timothy Ruggles, |
1435 |
|
Committee on the distressed circumstances of the Town of Waldoborough, |
1435 |
23, |
Report of the Committee on the conduct of Jerathmeel Bowers, presented, debated, and dismissed, |
1436 |
|
Committee to apply to General Washington for a return of the Officers and Men, of Massachusetts, now in the American Army, |
1437 |
25, |
Committee on the capture of a Sloop brought into Wellfleet Bay, |
1438 |
|
Committee to consider the services of all the Officers and Soldiers who have served the Colony since the 19th of April last, |
1438 |
|
Report on the Petition of Captain John Lane, |
1438 |
20, |
Committee to form a proper Preamble or Introduction to the Acts of the Colony passed at the last session, |
1439 |
|
Committee to bring in a Bill for regulating the Militia of the Colony, |
1439 |
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Committee to procure a suitable person to obtain a return of the Massachusetts Forces, |
1439 |
27, |
Committee to confer with the Indian Sachem of the Oneida Tribe, when he arrives, |
1440 |
|
Committee on a Petition of the Inhabitants of Boston, relative to Donations for the Poor of said Town, |
1440 |
|
Petition of Stephen Russey, of Nantucket, |
1440 |
|
Petition of Elisha Cobb, of Wellfleet, |
1440 |
|
Permission given to fit out Vessels for the Whale Fishery, |
1441 |
28, |
Motion to proceed to the choice of a Chaplain rejected, |
1441 |
|
Committee on a Petition of Daniel Nimham, a Stockbridge Indian, |
1441 |
|
Petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Edgar-town, |
1442 |
|
Petition of the Inhabitants of Chilmark, in Duke's County, |
1443 |
|
Petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Tisbury, |
1443 |
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Authorize two Companies to be raised on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, for the defence of the coast, |
1443 |
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Order the arrest of Rev. Asa Dunbar and Simeon Jones, of Weston, suspected of being concerned in the escape of some Tory Prisoners, from Concord Jail, |
1444 |
|
Committee to inquire into frauds committed by Officers of the Massachusetts Forces |
1414 |
1775. |
Sept. 28, |
Petition of Elisha Cobb, |
1444 |
|
Fac-Simile of a Fishing Pass, granted by Admiral Graves, |
1444 |
|
Committee to consider the exposed situation of the country between Machias and Penobscot, |
1444 |
|
Committee to consider the expediency of fitting out a number of Armed Vessels, |
1444 |
|
Petition of the Selectmen of the Town of Sherburne, on Nantucket, |
1444 |
|
Committee of Falmouth, in Barnstable County, authorized to permit the purchase of necessary Provisions for the inhabitants of Nantucket, |
1445 |
|
Permission gives to sell certain named imported goods, after the 10th of October next, |
1445 |
29, |
Treasurer directed to pay Solomon Uhnaunnauwaunmut thirty Pounds for his services, |
1445 |
|
Committee on the Petition of ten Prisoners, now in Concord Jail, taken in the battle of Lexington, on the 19th of April last, |
1445 |
|
Committee on providing an Armed Vessel to cruise between Cape Anne and Cape Elizabeth, |
1446 |
|
Committee to consider in what manner a manufactory of Fire-Arms may be most effectually encouraged, |
1446 |
|
Committee to confer with General Washington on the expediency of fitting out Armed Vessels, |
1446 |
30, |
Report of a Committee of the Council on the capture of the Schooner Industry, |
1447 |
|
Committee to consider what is proper to be done with the vessel and cargo, |
1447 |
|
Preamble to the Acts passed at the late session of the Assembly, |
1447 |
|
Committee on the capture of a Brig bound from Quebeck to Boston, |
1448 |
|
Committee to consider at large the capture of the Sloop Belisle, taken off Seguin Island, |
1448 |
Oct. 2, |
Committee on a Petition of William Holland, for permission to fit out a Privateer, |
1448 |
|
Committee on a Letter from General Washington, relative to the disposal of the captured Vessels, |
1449 |
3, |
Orders given to search in each Town in the Colony for wearing apparel and household furniture, taken from the inhabitants of Boston or Charlestown, on the day of the battle at Charles-town, |
1450 |
|
Petition of Jeremiah Pote and Thomas Wyer, |
1451 |
|
Corporation of Harvard College requested not to appoint any persons as Instructors but those whose political principles they can confide in, |
1451 |
|
Report of the Committee on the capture and disposal of the Schooner Industry, Francis Butler, master, and her cargo, |
1451 |
|
Report on the capture and disposal of the Brigantine Dolphin, |
1452 |
4, |
Committee to examine into the justness of the capture of certain Vessels, |
1452 |
|
Message from the Council, |
1453 |
|
Committee reports that General Washington declines taking the Vessel they proposed into the Continental service, |
1453 |
5, |
Report on the communication between the Town and Country, |
1454 |
6, |
Committee on a Letter from Thomas Crandon, |
1454 |
|
Report on disposing of the Fire-Arms purchased for the use of the Province, |
1455 |
|
Report on the Petition of Jeremiah Pote and Thomas Wyer, |
1456 |
|
Committee on the Letters of General Washington, respecting a supply of Wood for the Army, |
1456 |
|
Committee on the Memorial of Isaac Backus, in behalf of the Baptist Churches, |
1456 |
|
Report of the Committee appointed to repair to Windsor, to obtain what knowledge they could of the making of Saltpetre, |
1456 |
|
Joseph Greenleaf directed to repair to Brook-field, and examine some earth there supposed to contain Sulphur, |
1457 |
7, |
Report on the Petition of Thomas Crandon and Nathaniel Hammond, |
1458 |
9, |
Letter from two of the Heads of the St. John's Tribe of Indians, |
1458 |
|
Message to the Council, relating to the Vessels in the Ministerial service, near Penobscot, |
1459 |
|
Report of the Committee on fitting out Armed Vessels, |
1460 |