1776. |
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MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL |
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Mar. 13, |
Committee on a Letter from Stephen Moylan, |
1239 |
14, |
Committee on transmitting Books and Letters to Philadelphia, and obtaining an account of the Powder lent to the Continental Army, |
1239 |
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Committee to revise the Act for fixing out Armed Vessels, |
1239 |
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Appointment of sundry Officers, |
1239 |
15, |
Treasurer authorized to exchange Continental Bills for hard money for the Canadian expedition, |
1240 |
16, |
Committee to prepare a Letter to their Delegates in Congress, requesting them to use their influence with the Congress that forces may be left within the Colony for its defence, |
1240 |
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Petition of James Holmes, |
1240 |
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Payments for losses and services, ordered, |
1241 |
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Message to the House of Representatives, |
1241 |
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Payments for losses at the battle of Bunkers Hill, |
1242 |
18, |
Officers appointed, |
1242 |
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Selectmen of Boston required to furnish a list of the names of all who assisted the enemy when the Town was in possession of the British Troops, |
1243 |
19, |
Act to encourage the fixing out of Armed Vessels to defend the sea-coast of America, repealed, |
1243 |
21, |
Committee to take into immediate consideration the best measures to prevent the spreading of the Small-Pox, |
1245 |
22, |
Report of Committee appointed to confer with General Washington on the subject of the removal of any or all the Continental Troops now in the Colony, |
1246 |
23, |
Petition of the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Bristol, |
1247 |
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Payment for losses in the battle of Bunkers Hill, |
1248 |
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Message to the House of Representatives respecting the fitting for sea the Sloop Machias Liberty and the Schooner Diligent, |
1248 |
25, |
Committee to wait on General Washington to request that, in the exposed state of the Colony, he will continue there six Regiments of the Continental Troops for its defence, |
1249 |
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Samuel Tufts, of Newburyport, appointed to receive the Saltpetre made within the Colony, |
1249 |
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Committee to take an account of the Estates of the Mandamus Counsellors, and other avowed enemies of their country, who have lately left Boston, |
1249 |
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Petition of Abijah Burbank for a license to erect a Powder-Mill, |
1249 |
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Commissary-General directed to apply to General Washington for his advice relative to removing the property of the Colony from Castle-Island, |
1250 |
26, |
Committee on the Petition of Dr. Cooper, a sufferer through the infamous violence and robbery of the British Troops lately driven from Boston, |
1250 |
27, |
Committee on the Petition of Richard Derby, Jun., praying for liberty to send three Vessels to the West-Indies, |
1250 |
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Address to General Washington, |
1251 |
28, |
Petition of Walter Spooner, of Dartmouth, for Cannon for the defence of that Harbour, |
1251 |
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Committee on a Letter from R. H. Harrison, |
1252 |
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Committee to lay the account of Powder supplied the Army near Boston, since the 10th of June last, before General Washington, |
1252 |
29, |
Richard Derby permitted to send three Vessels to the foreign West-Indies, |
1252 |
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Captain William Wood with his crew permitted to return to England, |
1253 |
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Message to the House of Representatives, |
1254 |
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Payment ordered for men on Captain Stewarts Roll, on the expedition to Ticonderoga and Crown-Point, |
1254 |
Apr . 1, |
Committee to consider and report what is proper to be done with those persons in Boston who have appeared to be inimical to the United Colonies of America, |
1255 |
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General Washingtons Answer to an Address from the General Court, of the 27th ultimo, |
1255 |
1776. |
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Payment ordered for losses at the battle of Bunkers Hill, |
1256 |
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Military Officers appointed, |
1256 |
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Payment ordered for fitting out the two Armed Vessels commanded by Captain Obrien, |
1256 |
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Message to the House of Representatives respecting the Cannon left by the enemy on Castle-Island, |
1257 |
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Suits against Officers and Soldiers of the Army, for any entry made by them in houses or lands in the Colony, prohibited, |
1257 |
Apr . 2, |
John Rich committed to prison for supplying the enemy when in Boston with Provisions, |
1258 |
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Petition from the Committee of Correspondence for the County of Worcester, |
1258 |
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Report of Committee appointed to inquire of Baron de Woedtke relative to the design the Captain in whose vessel he came, had of going into Boston, |
1258 |
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Petition of Caleb Green for an exchange of some prisoners, whom Captain Wallace threatens to send to England, |
1258 |
3, |
Petition of Bartelemi Wassanis, |
1259 |
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Act to prevent the forging of Bills of Publick Credit, passed, |
1260 |
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Report of Committee on the passages there are for Ships to enter the Harbour of Boston, and the defences necessary for the protection of the Town, |
1260 |
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Orders for securing the Estates of the Mandamus Counsellors and other absconders from Boston, |
1261 |
4, |
Committee on erecting a Monument to General Warren report that the place where his body was buried has been discovered, and recommend the removal and interment of the remains, so that hereafter the Monument may be erected to his memory, |
1262 |
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Payment ordered for losses at the battle of Bunkers Hill, |
1262 |
5, |
Committee to give directions for the fortifying of Boston Harbour, |
1262 |
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Memorial of Committee for building and equipping sundry Armed Vessels, |
1263 |
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Committee to consider what is proper to be done with the effects of persons inimical to the Colonies, who may be imprisoned, |
1263 |
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Order for the arrest of John Lovell, Jun., and others, of Boston, charged with assisting the enemies of the United Colonies, |
1264 |
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Petition of the inhabitants of Boston, praying that proper defences may be erected for the protection of the Town, |
1264 |
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Committee to erect a Powder-Mill in the Town of Sutton, |
1265 |
6, |
Act to amend the Act for encouraging the fitting out of Armed Vessels, passed, |
1266 |
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Petition of Israel Stoddard and Woodbridge Little, of Pittsfield, |
1266 |
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Committee to consider and report on General Washingtons Instructions to General Ward, |
1267 |
8, |
Resolution to prevent fraudulent practices and impositions in procuring the premium for the manufacture of Saltpetre, |
1268 |
9, |
Committee on the Deposition of Dr. John Warren, who discovered Arsenick among the Medicines left by the British in Boston, |
1269 |
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Report of Committee on the Fortifications necessary for the defence of Boston Harbour, |
1269 |
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Transferring Vessels to the inhabitants of Nova-Scotia, to carry on the business of Fishing, prohibited, |
1270 |
10, |
Committee on a Letter from John Glover, respecting a number of Tories taken on board a Vessel from Boston, |
1271 |
11, |
Petition of Jacob Martin and Nathaniel Perley, of Ipswich, |
1271 |
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Sheriff of Barnstable County directed to seize the Tea and British Goods lately arrived there, |
1272 |
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Petition of William King, of Great Barrington, |
1272 |
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Beating Orders to Officers for inlisting the Regiment to be raised to fortify the Town and Harbour of Boston, |
1272 |
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Selectmen of the several Towns directed to give all possible aid to Colonel Knox in removing the Ordnance through the Colony, on the way to New-York, |
1273 |