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The Secretary attended, and informed the House that the Council had passed a Resolve to liberate Dr. Gelston, 1372 |
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Message to the Council, requesting they will not discharge Dr. Gelston till some further proceedings had passed both Houses respecting him, 1372 |
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Committee of both Houses appointed to examine into the character and conduct of Dr. Samuel Gelston, 1373 |
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Further provisions for the defence of the Sea-Coast adopted, 1373 |
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Memorial and Petition of Hannah Sewall, of Brookline, 1373 |
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Petition of John Bunker, of Mount-Desert, relating to a Vessel he took and carried into Goldsborough, in November last, 1374 |
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Committee to confer with a Committee of the Council on the Militia Bill, 1374 |
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Petition of-the Town of Falmouth, setting forth their distressed circumstances in consequence of the burning of the Town by Captain Mowat, and requesting to be released from the Colony Tax for the present year, 1374 |
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Resolve for procuring Blankets for the Army, 1374 |
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Apportionment of Blankets among the several Counties and Towns, 1375 |
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Committees to repair to the several Counties for procuring the Blankets, 1376 |
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Committee to provide for the erection of a Powder-Mill at Sutton and at Stoughton, 1377 |
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Appointment of a Committee to confer with a Committee of the Council on the Militia Bill, reconsidered, and a new Committee appointed, 1377 |
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Petition of the Committee of Deer-Island, representing the distressed condition of the Inhabitants, for want of Men and Ammunition to protect them from the enemy, 1377 |
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Petitions of Charles Miles and Joshua Felt, both wounded on the 19th of April last, 1378 |
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Doorkeeper directed immediately to arrest Dr. Samuel-Gelston, and put him under a proper guard, 1378 |
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Committee to wait on General Washington, to know of him whether he thinks there will be a necessity of retaining any, or all, of the Militia, after the 15th instant 1378 |
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Order of the 6th for a Committee to wait on General Washington, reconsidered, and another adopted, 1379 |
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Resolve for erecting a Powder-Mill at Andover, 1379 |
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Report of the Committee, that, in the opinion of General Washington, it will be necessary for the whole of the Militia of this Colony, now in Camp, to remain there until the last of this month, 1380 |
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Report of the Committee on Muster-Rolls, 1380 |
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Resolve for disposing of the Estates of Refugees, 1381 |
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Petition of Captain Caleb Hyde, setting forth, that, on the 10th of May last, he marched part of a Company of Militia, at the alarm at Ticonderoga, one hundred and forty miles, at his own expense, 1381 |
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Pay-Roll of Captain Brown's Company, marched from Stockbridge on the 10th of May last, for the reduction of Ticonderoga, at the request of Colonel Benedict Arnold, presented, 1332 |
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Report of Committee on the conduct of the Officers at Falmouth, that they were not guilty of breaking orders at the time, 1382 |
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Amendment to the Resolve passed yesterday, for erecting a Powder-Mill at Andover, 1383 |
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Letter from Joshua Elderkin, of Windham, Connecticut acquainting the Court he can produce fifty pounds of Saltpetre per week, and declaring his willingness to communicate his discoveries, 1383 |
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Militia engaged to serve from the 1st of December to the 15th of this month, to be paid one Penny per mile travel, 1383 |
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Militia strongly recommended to reinlist to serve from the 15th to the last of this month, 1384 |
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Committee to settle the Accounts remaining unsettled on the books of the late Committee of Supplies 1386 |
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Committee to inform General Washington that it would encourage the Militia of the Colony, now in the American Army as a temporary reinforcement, to reinlist, if they could be assured by his Excellency that they would be paid when discharged, 1385 |
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Report, of Committee appointed to prepare directions to the Committee on Muster-Rolls, with respect to Minors and Servants, read, and not accepted, 1387 |
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Amendments to the Resolve of the 8th instant, relative to the Estates of Refugees, 1387 |
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Amendments of the Council to the Militia Bill rejected, 1388 |
| 12, |
Committee to inquire into the state of the Treasury, 1388 |
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Petition of the Selectmen of Watertown, praying to be reimbursed the expense of mounting eight pieces of Cannon that were brought out of Boston in October last, 1388 |
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Letter from Timothy Parsons, dated Pownalborough, January 2, praying something may be done by the Court For the peace of the Town, 1388 |
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Report of the Committee on a plan for fitting out Armed Vessels, read, and recommitted, 1388 |
| 13, |
Committee on a Deposition of Ebenezer and James, Goodel, relative to the refusal of Joseph Bowditch, of Salem, to take Bills of Publick Credit in discharge of a bond, 1389 |
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Committee to revise the. Militia Bill, 1390 |
| 15, |
Petition of the Selectmen of Rehoboth, relative to the defence of the Town, 1390 |
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Committee to consider what further is necessary to be done for supplying the Army with Hay, 1390 |
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Letter received from General Washington relative to a want of Fire-Arms for the Army, 1390 |
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Committee to consider and report at large the best method of supplying the Camp with Wood, 1391 |
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Committee to consider what further is necessary to be done for the defence of the Sea-Coast, 1391 |
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Letter from the President of Congress, dated January 2, 1391 |
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Isaac Lothrop chosen to go to Philadelphia, with the Accounts of the Colony, for disbursements in the defence of American liberty, 1392 |
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Amendments of the Council to the Militia Bill agreed to, 1392 |
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Petition of William Henshaw, praying allowance for his services as Adjutant-General, 1393 |
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Further measures for procuring Hay for the Army adopted, 1393 |
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General Washington furnished with a copy of the Resolve for lending him the sum of fifty-thousand Pounds, 1393 |
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Report of the Committee relative to the want of Fire-Arms for the Army, read and adopted, and ordered to be communicated to General Washington, 1394 |
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Officers for the Sea-Coast Forces elected, 1394 |
| 17, |
Further amendment of the Council to the Militia Bill, 1396 |
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Seven Regiments to be immediately raised from the Militia of this Colony to join the Continental Army to continue in service till the 1st of April, 1396 |
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Letter from the Committee of St. Georges, relative to the conduct of Captain Francis Haskill in carrying a Sloop load of Wood to Boston, 1396 |
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Amendments of the Council to the Militia Bill considered, and the Bill recommitted; again reported with another amendment, which was read and adopted, 1396 |
| 18, |
Resolve of the Council relating to Dr. Gelston rejected, and the Council requested to cause him to be forthwith confined in some Jail of the Colony, 1397 |
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Colonel Thompson directed to make inquiry about an open Letter from England to some Gentlemen in Philadelphia, now in the possession of Colonel Arnold, 1398 |
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Apportionment of six Regiments, to reinforce the Army, among the several Counties, 1399 |
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Petition of the Town of Templeton, expressing their uneasiness on account of the high wages of the Officers of the Army, 1399 |
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Resolutions for raising the six Regiments, and the proportions from each Town, 1400 |
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Form of Inlistment, 1403 |
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