1776.
Jan. 26, |
Edward Rawson, Stephen Maynard, and Deacon Hall, elected Guardians to the Hassanimisco Tribe of Indians, at Grafton, 1280 |
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Arrangement of the Militia in Regiments, 1280 |
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Letter to the Committee of the Town of Newburyport, requesting them to take into their custody and safe-keeping William Erwin and others, prisoners, taken in the Ship Jenny, 1281 |
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Letter to the Committee of Gloucester, requesting them to take charge of William Wood, Master, and Robert Ayles, Mate, of the Ship Jenny, 1282 |
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Benjamin Lincoln directed to wait on General Washington and request him to cause one Haswell, an Officer of the British Navy, to be removed from Hull, 1282 |
| 29, |
Committee on a Letter from John Dickinson, of Hatfield, relative to the conduct of Elisha Ellis, Jun., 1282 |
| 30, |
Committee to ascertain what number of sheets of Bills had been printed, 1282 |
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Report of the Committee, read and recommitted, 1283 |
| 31, |
Committees of Inspection in all the Towns of the Colony to make strict inquiry, and if they find any persons endeavoring to prevent the credit of the Continental Bills, or of any other Bills, or to alter or counterfeit the same, to arrest and secure such person, that he may be proceeded with according to the just demerits of such high crimes and mislemeanours, 1284 |
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Petitions of the Committees, and others, Inhabitants of the Towns of Machias, Goldsborough, Number-Four, Narragaugus, Pleasant-River, and Chandler's River, in the County of Lincoln, 1284 |
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Letter from Hugh Orr, requesting that James Seward may be permitted to be employed in Watertown, 1285 |
| Feb. 1, |
Committee to bring in a Bill establishing a Test, by which all persons inimical to the rights and liberties of America shall be distinguished from their friends, 1285 |
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Committee to consider an anonymous Letter from Dartmouth, 1285 |
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Petition from the Selectmen of Rehoboth, 1286 |
| 2, |
Petition of John Bakeman, and others, against the appointment of some Field-Officers of the two Regiments East of Penobscot River, 1286 |
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Committee to prepare a general arrangement of Militia throughout the Colony, 1286 |
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Field-Officers for the First and Second Regiments in Worcester, 1286 |
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Field and Staff-Officers of the several Regiments to be raised, to join the Army before Boston, till the 1st of April next, to be notified of their appointments, 1287 |
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Report of Joint Committee on the Memorial of the Selectmen of Sherburne, in Nantucket, recommending a representation of the state of that Island be made to the American Congress, 1287 |
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Letter to the Committee for the Town of Hatfield, 1287 |
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Dr. Samuel Gelston and John Brown, who aided Gelston in making his escape, to be confined in Jail, 1287 |
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India Tea, found in custody of John Brown, to be publickly consumed by fire, this day, at one o'clock, P. M., 1288 |
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Report of Joint Committee on the complaints of, and charges against, certain Inhabitants of Majabigwaduce, 1288 |
| 6, |
Report of Joint Committee on the Petition of Philip Hodgkins, 1289 |
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Field-Officers for Regiments in the Counties of Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester, York, Bristol, Middlesex, Cumberland, and Berkshire, elected, 1290 |
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Petition of Anna Coshommon, an Indian woman, of Chilmark, in Dukes County, 1292 |
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Petition of Thomas Simonds and Mary Thomas, native Indians, of Middleborough, in the County of Plymouth, 1293, |
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Act for encouraging the fixing out of Armed Vessels passed, 1293 |
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Petition of Jeremiah O'Brien, 1294 |
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Committee of Newburyport to prepare and fit out the Sloop Machias-Liberty and Schooner Diligent, 1294 |
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Further elections of Field-Officers, 1294 |
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John Hancock, Azor Orne, and Benjamin Lincoln, elected Major-Generals, 1295 |
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Letter from James Otis, requesting (the release, under bonds, of John Gray, 1296 |
| Feb. 9, |
Regulation for the settlement of Accounts for Provision's supplied the Men who marched on the alarm of the 19th of April last, 1296 |
| 10, |
Order of the Court of the 21st of January, for raising a Regiment to serve in Canada, in part reconsidered, 1298 |
| 12, |
Committee to prepare a Proclamation for a General Fast throughout the Colony, 1299 |
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Officers and Soldiers, who sustained any loss of Clothing, Fire-Arms, &c., by their being engaged in battle with the Ministerial Troops on the 19th of. April and 17th of June last, are required to exhibit a particular account of their losses, or they will be deprived of the benefit of compensation, 1300 |
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Petition of a number of Inhabitants of the Eastern part of Lincoln County, requesting assistance for the St. John's and Passamaquoddy Indians,1300 |
| 13, |
Joseph Henderson appointed to lay the disbursements of this Colony, in defence of American liberty, before the American Congress for approbation, 1302 |
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Report of Joint Committee on the Petition of Philip Hodgkinst making a complaint against Colonel James Cargill, 1302 |
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Report of Joint Committee on the Letter received this morning from General Washington, relative to supplying the Army with Fire-Arms, 1303 |
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Committees appointed to purchase Fire-Arms in the several Counties, on Money being advanced by General Washington to enable them to execute their commission, 1303 |
| 14, |
Bounty of fifty Pounds to the first person who shall, at his own cost, erect a Powder-Mill, and of thirty Pounds to whoever erects another, 1304 |
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Further elections of Field-Officers, 1304 |
| 15, |
Committee appointed in each County to obtain subscriptions of all persons who are willing to exchange Hard Money for Continental Bills, each stating what amount he is ready to exchange, to be reported on the second day of the next sitting of the Assembly, 1306 |
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Petition of Hannah Goldthwait, 1306 |
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Memorial of James Cargill, of Newcastle, Lincoln County, 1307 |
| 16, |
Letter from the Committee of Safety of South-Carolina, dated December 3l, 1307 |
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Letters to the Committees of Northampton and of Machias, respecting the Plans and Surveys taken by Lieutenant Knight, 1308 |
| 17, |
Petition of Benjamin Crocker, of Falmouth, for permission to send a Vessel in ballast to the Islands of Tobago and Grenada, 1309 |
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Message from the House, requesting the Council to suspend the granting of Commissions to General Officers and Brigadiers, 1309 |
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Report of Joint Committee appointed to make inquiry after Virgin Lead, &c., 1310 |
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Committee to fit out with all possible despatch, Vessels to import ten thousand barrels of Flour, two thousand casks of Rice, and one thousand tons of Pig-Iron, from any of the Southern Colonies, 1311 |
| 19, |
Committee to consider what is proper to be done respecting the regulating of proceedings in civil causes, 1311 |
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Committee on a Letter from James Otis, respecting a French Vessel cast on shore on the Cape, 1311 |
| 20, |
Committee to prepare a Proclamation for a General Fast, to be observed on the 7th of March next, 1312 |
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House desires to be prorogued to the 13th of March next, 1312 |
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Message to the House, that the Council has consented to the following Bills; 1312 |
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For assessing a Tax of seventy-five, thousand Pounds, to defray the charges of this Colony, 1312 |
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