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Begun and Held at Meeting-House in Watertown, List of the Representatives, Samuel Freeman chosen Clerk, and sworn into office, Divine Service performed by the Rev. Mr. Gordon, James Warren chosen Speaker, Committee to get the Sermon, delivered this day by Mr. Gordon, printed. [1775-07-19] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0271] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Met and adjourned, this having been appointed, by the Continental Congress, to be observed as a Day of Fasting and Prayer throughout the Continent. [1775-07-20] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0275] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Counsellor for the Territory of Massachusetts-Bay, for the Colony of New-Plymouth, for the Province of Maine, and for the Territory lying between the River Sagadahock and Nova-Scotia, elected by the House. [1775-07-21] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0275] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on a Letter from James Sullivan to the President of the late Congress. [1775-07-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0276] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from James Greenleaf and others, relating to the cruel confinement of the Inhabitants of Boston. [1775-07-21] Greenleaf, William; Wendall, Oliver; Pitts, John; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0276] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to consider the circumstances of the Soldiers raised by this Colony, Committee on a Petition from Fryburgh, and on the Proceedings of a Meeting of the Town of Pownalborough, Committee of Safety requested to furnish General Washington's House, Rev. Mr. Gordon elected Chaplain to the House. [1775-07-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0276] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Levi Sheppard and Ebenezer Hunt, read and committed. [1775-07-19] Sheppard, Levi; Hunt, Ebenezer; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0277] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to prepare a Letter to Generals Thomas, Whitcomb, and Frye, desiring them to continue in the service of the Colony. [1775-07-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0277] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to repair to Salem, to provide for the Poor and other Inhabitants of Boston. [1775-07-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0277] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Petition of William Greenleaf, and c., read, considered, recommitted, Committee on a Petition from St. John's, Committee on a Letter from General Ward, requesting suitable accommodations for himself and attendants, Committee to examine all Accounts and Muster-Rolls Laid before the House. [1775-07-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0278] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Colonel James Easton, Committee on this Petition, and on the Report of a Committee of the late Provincial Congress on Colonel Easton's representation of the state of his Regiment. [1775-07-24] Easton, James; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0278] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to prepare an Answer to a Letter from the Committee of Saybrook. [1775-07-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0279] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on the Petition of James Greenleaf, and c., again read and accepted. [1775-07-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0279] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolutions providing for the removal of the Inhabitants of Boston, Committee to consider the terms on which the Town of Salem will consent that the Hospital there shall be used for the reception of the Poor of Boston. [1775-07-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0280] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to confer with General Ward on the subject of his Letter to the House, Vote reconsidered, and the Report of the Committee on his Letter read, amended, and accepted, Committee to inquire of General Ward if it would not be as agreeable to make provision for himself, Committee to complete the Powder-House, begun by order of the late Provincial Congress, Committee of Safety of Salem made Overseers of the Poor of Boston, on their removal to the Hospital in that place, Committee to wait on General Ward instructed to desire him to provide himself with proper accommodations, Protest of a number of the Inhabitants of Swanzey against the election of Colonel Jerathmeel Bowers, read and rejected, Committee to consider a Letter from the Committee of Deer Island, relative to arrival of a Man-of-War, and other Vessels, at Penobscot. [1775-07-25] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0280] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
July 26. [1775-07-26] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0282] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on the Petition of Colonel Easton, read and accepted. [1775-07-26] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0282] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to prepare an Address to the Council, on the Petition from Deer-Island, Committee to consider the state of the Armourers. [1775-07-26] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0282] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on the Petition of Sheppard and Hunt, read and recommitted. [1775-07-26] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0283] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Charles Miller, read and committed. [1775-07-25] Miller, Charles; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0283] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to consider a new emission of Bills of Credit. [1775-07-26] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0283] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Address to the Council on the critical condition of the Inhabitants of the Eastern parts of the colony. [1775-07-26] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0283] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colonel Bowers and Captain Brown. [1775-07-25] Warren, James; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0284] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Petition of Sheppard and Hunt, again considered, and accepted, The two Votes passed yesterday, on General Ward's Letter, reconsidered, and Major Hawley directed to bring in a Resolve expressive of the sense of said Votes. [1775-07-26] Rice, Thomas; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0284] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to examine what powers are vested in the Committee of Supplies. [1775-07-27] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0284] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Committee and Selectman of Bridgewater, read and committed. [1775-07-24] Massachusetts, Bridgewater Committee of Correspondence; Massachusetts, Bridgewater Committee of Inspection; Massachusetts, Bridgewater Selectmen; Perkins, Richard; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0285] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on a Petition of the Committee of Inspection for the East Precinct of Pownalborough, relative to the conduct of Abiel Wood, Committee on a Petition of a number of Inhabitants of the Town of Pownalborough, stating their objections to the choice and person of Thomas Rice, a member of this House. [1775-07-27] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0285] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Luke Perkins. [1775-07-27] Perkins, Luke; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0286] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Order of the Day. [1775-07-27] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0286] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Luke Perkins. [1775-07-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0286] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to procure immediately two hundred Axes for the use of the Army, Committee to devise means for the payment of the Soldiers who have not received their advance pay. [1775-07-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0286] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from the Town of Bristol. [1775-07-18] Massachusetts, Bristol Committee; Brackett, Thomas; Thompson, Thomas; Ottes, Samuel; Turner, Cornelius; Turner, Briggs; Boyd, Thomas; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0287] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Henry Gardner chosen Treasurer and Receiver-General, Committee to prepare a Resolve, requiring the Treasurer and Receiver-General to give Bond, Committee to procure the Journals of this House, for five or six years back, Committee to wait upon General Washington, and request him to inform this House what his instructions are with respect to giving out Commissions, Committee appointed to wait on General Washington, directed to request him to lay the Muster-Rolls of the Massachusetts Forces before this House, Committee to consider a Petition of Aphiah Jones, whose husband is confined a prisoner at Machias, Committee on a Petition of several Armourers. [1775-07-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0287] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to consider what is necessary to be done relative to a Colony Seal. [1775-07-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0288] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on a Petition of the Selectman of Sherburne, on the Island of Nantucket, praying that they may be permitted to supply themselves with the necessaries of life. [1775-07-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0288] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Message from the Council, recommending an increase of the Forces in the Eastern parts of the Colony, to prevent the enemy from plundering the inhabitants. [1775-07-28] Otis, James; Sever, William; Greenleaf, Benjamin; Spooner, Walter; Cushing, Caleb; Winthrop, John; Foster, Jedediah; Prescott, James; Taylor, Eldad; Lincoln, Benjamin; Farley, Michael; Palmer, Joseph; Holten, Samuel; Fisher, Jabez; Gill, Moses; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0288] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter to the Continental Congress, enclosing the Petition of the Committee of the Town of Bristol. [1775-07-28] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0289] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
The Council to be considered as Governour, according to the Charter, the Governour and Lieutenant or Deputy Governour having absented themselves, and refused to govern the Province according to the Charter. [1775-07-29] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0289] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Petition from the Town of Bridgewater, presented, read, and adopted, Ebenezer Keith, having acted in direct opposition to the rights and liberties of the Country, is to be kept in custody by the Committee of Bridgewater. [1775-07-29] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0289] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to provide a Hospital for the sick and wounded of the Army, Committee on appointing Apothecaries to take care of and compound Medicines for the use of the Army, Committee to consider the Message from the Council, relative to the Eastern parts of the Colony. [1775-07-29] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0289] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colony Notes. [1775-07-29] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0290] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Pettion from the Town of Gloucester, read and rejected, Committee to wait on General Washington, and know of him if he can send a detachment to the Eastern parts of the Colony, to prevent the enemy from ravaging the Country, and plundering the inhabitants. [1775-07-29] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0290] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Washington to the Speaker, enclosing one from Chelsea, in relation to the removal of the Inhabitants of Boston. [1775-07-29] Washington, George; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0292] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to repair to Chelsea, and examine into the removal of the Inhabitants of Boston, and take measures for guarding against the Smallpox. [1775-07-30] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0292] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Bills of Credit. [1775-07-31] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0293] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee. [1775-07-31] Massachusetts, House of Representatives; Foster, Jedediah. [S4-V3-p0293] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee to the Selectman and Committee of Correspondence of the Town of Chelsea. [1775-07-31] Massachusetts, House of Representatives; Foster, Jedediah; Orne, Azor; Smith, Jonathan; Gill, Moses; Palmer, Joseph; Cushing, Nathan; Freeman, Samuel. [S4-V3-p0293] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to bring in a Bill for vacating the Commissions of all Civil Officers who have been appointed by the Governour and Council, Resolve obliging the Treasurer and Receiver-General to give Bond for One Hundred Thousand Pounds. [1775-07-31] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0293] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve confirming the Proceedings of yesterday, the General Court having been adjourned on Saturday, the 29th, to this day, Monday, the 31st, Committee on the escape of Bridget Philips, and the disposition of her effects, Committee to bring in a Resolve, directing the Treasurer and Receiver-General to give Bond for Fifty Thousand Pounds instead of One Hundred Thousand. [1775-07-31] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0295] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
August 1st. [1775-08-01] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0296] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to consider the Victualling of the Army, and examine into any supposed defeciencies. [1775-08-01] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0296] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve requiring the Treasurer and Receiver-General to give Bond for Fifty Thousand Pounds, Accounts against Gen. Washington, for Horse hire, Wagon hire, and c., received, and referred to the Committee of Accounts. [1775-08-01] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0296] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accounts of John Derby, for hire, and c., of the Schooner Quero, from Salem to Great Britain, and back, with Depositions relative to the Battle of Lexington: Read, and ordered to be paid. [1775-07-25] Derby, John; Derby, Richard; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0298] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accounts of Richard Derby. [1775-08-01] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0298] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on a Memorial of Colonel Benedict Arnold. [1775-08-01] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0298] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on the situation of our Friends in Boston. [1775-08-02] Foster, Jedediah; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0299] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Apothecaries. [1775-08-02] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0299] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Benjamin Ames, a Captain in Colonel Frye's Regiment. [1775-08-02] Ames, Benjamin; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0300] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve for procuring Powder for the Army, presented by Major Hawley, (the Galleries being first cleared,) read and adopted, Committee to confer with Lewis, a Chief of the Caughnawaga Tribe of Indians, who is now in Town. [1775-08-02] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0300] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
August 3rd. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0301] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of this Committee, of their conference with Lewis. [1775-08-03] Winthrop, John; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0301] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on the situation of the Eastern parts of the Colony, read and accepted. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0302] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to inquire into the cause of General Sullivan's taking a House in Mystick for a Hospital, Committee to repair immediately to Chelsea, to make provision for the poor distressed Inhabitants of Boston, now coming over Winnisimit Ferry, Resolve approving the conduct of the Committee for East Pownalborough, in regard to Abiel Wood. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0303] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0304] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on Accounts and Muster Rolls. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0304] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Captain John Stevens, with a Roll of his Company, under Colonel Arnold, at the reduction of Ticonderoga. [1775-08-03] Stevens, John, Captain; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0305] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colonel Arnold's Account. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0305] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Committee of the Town of Camden, in Penobscot-Bay, read and committed. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, Camden Committee; Ogier, Abraham; Ballard, John; Minot, James; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0305] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Captain Wright's Account, in Colonel Arnold's Regiment, ordered to be paid. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0305] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Andrew Craigie appointed to take charge of the Medical Store in Waterloo. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0306] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Receiver-General directed to keep an exact and particular account of all Moneys paid by him to Officers of the Army. [1775-08-03] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0306] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Bill for removing all the Officers of this Country, both Civil and Military, read the first time. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0306] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Account of Benjamin Batchelder. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0307] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Order to Joseph Chaddock. [1775-08-04] Warren, Joseph; Massachusetts, Committee of Safety; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0307] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
John Chaddock. [1775-08-04] Chaddock, Joseph, Captain; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0307] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolves requiring certain Towns to deliver up their stock of Powder for the use of the Army. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0307] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee of Supplies directed to furnish to the Town of Camden, two hundred bushels of Indian Corn, Committee to take care of the Poor of Boston, who may go to Salem. [1775-08-04] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0308] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to fix the pay of Teamsters, for transporting the Poor of Boston and their effects, Committee on a Letter from Justin Ely, of West Springfield, relative to the Donations for the Poor of Boston. [1775-08-05] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0309] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Prince Goreham, of Barnstable. [1775-08-05] Gorham, Prince; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0309] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colonel Arnold's Account. [1775-08-05] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0310] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Device for the Colony Seal reported by the Committee. [1775-08-05] Otis, James; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0310] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Prince Gorham. [1775-08-05] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0310] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve agreeing to release Jones and Hicks, as required by General Gage, in exchange for John Gill and others, confined in Boston. [1775-08-05] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0310] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Bill for annulling the Commissions of several Officers, read the third time, passed, and sent to the Council for concurrence. [1775-08-05] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0311] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from Colonel Baldwin, relating to three Women who came over Winnisimit Ferry, from Boston. [1775-08-05] Baldwin, Loammi, Colonel; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0312] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Captain White. [1775-08-05] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0312] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Ladies, Before Mentioned. [1775-08-05] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0312] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on the Letter from General Washington, relative to the Inhabitants coming out of Boston. [1775-08-06] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0312] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on Colonel Arnold's Account. [1775-08-07] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0313] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to attend the landing of the People from Boston. [1775-08-07] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0313] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Stationing of Forces at Lincoln. [1775-08-07] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0313] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to examine the three Women brought to the House on Saturday, the 5th instant. [1775-08-07] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0313] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Colony Seal. [1775-08-07] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0313] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from General Washinton, relative to the Soldiers who absent themselves from the Army. [1775-08-07] Washington, George; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0314] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petitions and Accounts. [1775-08-07] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0314] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee appointed to examine the three women. [1775-08-07] Chauncy, Charles; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0314] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on the Resolves of the Continental Congress, for establishing a Militia throughout the Continent. [1775-08-07] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0315] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on a Memorial of William Hunt, relative to sundry articles which belonged to Lady Frankland, Committee on a Resolve of Congress, relative to killing Sheep and Lambs, Forty Thousand Pounds to be raised on the Polls and Estates of the Inhabitants of the Colony, Committee to consider in what manner the Taxes shall be laid. [1775-08-08] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0315] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Orders. [1775-08-09] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0317] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee appointed to apply to Colonels of the Regiments, raised in the Colony, for a complete List of the Men in their respective Regiments. [1775-08-09] Massachusetts, House of Representatives; Lincoln, Benjamin. [S4-V3-p0317] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to consider what Offices are inconsistent with the publick interest, to be held by one person. [1775-08-09] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0318] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report and Resolves on Letter. [1775-08-09] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0318] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Letter from the Committee of Supplies. [1775-08-08] Massachusetts, Committee of Supplies; Cheever, David; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0318] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to bring in a Bill to prevent the waste of Powder, by firing at fowl, or game of any kind, and marks. [1775-08-09] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0318] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Edward Parry to be sent immediately to some inland Town, more than seventy miles to the sea-coast, there to be detained. [1775-08-09] Lincoln, Benjamin; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0319] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to bring in a Bill for the emission of One Hundred Thousand Pounds. [1775-08-09] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0319] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on paying advance wages to the Commissioned Officers. [1775-08-10] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0320] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Letter from Dartmouth, (respecting Whaling Voyages,) read and accepted. [1775-08-10] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0320] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to wait on General Washington, and confer with him on supplying the Town of Gloucester with Ammunition and Men for their defence. [1775-08-10] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0320] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on the Letter from General Washington, relative to Thomas Cowden. [1775-08-10] Spooner, Walter; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0321] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Confession of Thomas Cowden. [1775-08-10] Cowden, Thomas; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0322] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
New draught of a Bill for annulling Commissions, read and concurred, Rates allowed the Teamsters for transporting the Poor of Boston and their effects. [1775-08-10] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0322] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to receive Coats, Breeches, Shirts, Shoes, and Stockings, for the Soldiers, Clerk of the House ordered to officiate as Speaker, in the absence of the Speaker, Men and Military Stores ordered to Gloucester for the defence of that Town. [1775-08-11] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0323] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve prohibiting the needless expense of Gunpowder. [1775-08-12] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0325] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Andrew Hamiton, a crafty, designing person, very officious in prying into the management of the publick affairs of the Colony, ordered to by sent to Springfield Jail. [1775-08-11] Chauncy, Charles; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0325] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Treasurer. [1775-08-12] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0325] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Edward Parry ordered to be sent to Sturbridge, as a prisoner. [1775-08-09] Lincoln, Benjamin; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0326] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Order for the arrest of Mr. Mills, late a Printer in Boston, and Joseph Otis, who has lately acted as Sheriff of Boston, Committee on a Letter from General Washington, concering the state of the Army, and the propriety of fitting out Privateers. [1775-08-12] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0326] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Publick worship. [1775-08-13] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0327] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve in consequence of General Washington's Letter respecting Desertion from the Army. [1775-08-13] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0327] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committees on Petitions from Machias and from Falmouth, Resolve relating to the killing of Sheep. [1775-08-14] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0328] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Memorial from the Officers of the Eastern Regiments in the County of Lincoln. [1775-08-2] Cargill, James; Massachusetts, Eastern Regiment Officers; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0329] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to inquire into the grounds of the complaints made by the Soldiers of their allowance. [1775-08-14] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0330] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to examine the Resolves of the Congress respecting the Estates of the Refugees. [1775-08-15] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0330] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolution of Falmouth Petition. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0331] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Committee for the Town of Falmouth. [1775-08-11] Massachusetts, Falmouth Committee of Correspondence; Grannis, Jonathan; Shiverick, Nathaniel; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0331] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Bills of Credit. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0331] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolution of Petition, Men and Supplies ordered for the assistance of the said Towns. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0331] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from the Committee of Goldsborough, Number Four, Narragaugus, and Pleasant River. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, Gouldsborough Committee; Massachusetts, Number-Four Committee; Massachusetts, Narraguagus Committee; Massachusetts, Pleasant River Committee; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0331] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Memorial. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0332] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Act vacating the Civil and Military Commissions in the colony, issued by any Governour or Lieutenant-Governour of the Province. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0332] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0333] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from the Inhabitants of the Town of Machias, Captain Jeremiah Obrian directed to raise a Company of fity men, for the protection of Machias. [1775-08-16] Obrian, Jeremiah; Foster, Benjamin; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0333] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Order of the Day. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0334] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to confer with an Indian Chief, who appears as an ambassador from the St. Francis Tribe of Indians. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0334] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to confer with the Delegates to the Continental Congress, with respect to the sum necessary to defray their expenses to and at Philadelphia, Committee to consider what Oaths are proper and necessary to be taken by the Officers, civil and military, who may be appointed by the Council. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0334] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Orders. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0334] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Act declaratory of the right of certain Towns in the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay to elect Representatives to the General Court. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0334] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Monitors. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0335] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Memorial of the Officers of the Eastern Regiment. [1775-08-17] Palmer, Joseph; Adams, Samuel; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0336] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
One hundred Pounds granted to the Hon. John Hancock, for his expenses, and c., to and at Philadelphia. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0336] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
On Petition from Salem. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0337] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from the Town of Salem. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, Salem Town Meeting; Pickering, Timothy, Jr.; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0337] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
On Petition from Lydia Paddock. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0338] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Lydia Paddock. [1775-08-15] Paddock, Lydia; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0338] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Oath. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0338] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0338] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee appointed to confer with the Chief of the St. Francois Tribe. [1775-08-17] Massachusetts, House of Representatives; Sever, William. [S4-V3-p0339] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Memorial from the Regiment of Militia in the County of Lincoln. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0340] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to receive Donations from the humane and charitable in this or any other Colony, for the Poor of Boston. [1775-08-16] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0340] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Clothing. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0340] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve on Petition and Remonstrance of the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Lexington. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0341] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition and Remonstrance of the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Lexington. [1775-08-14] Brown, Benjamin; Harrington, Jonathan; Parker, Thomas; Reed, Joshua; Parker, Thaddeus. [S4-V3-p0341] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to consider what is proper to be done for the support of the Poor of Boston, Committee to consider what is proper to be done with the Letters and other papers of the late Governour Hutchinson, and how they shall be preserved. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0341] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Josiah Jones. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0341] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Publick Credit. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0341] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve on the Petition of Edward Emerson. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Edward Emerson. [1775-08-16] Emerson, Edward; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Hobart, Grout, and Dwight. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Jonathan Titcomb. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Jonathan Titcomb. [1775-08-04] Titcomb, Jonathan; Greenleaf, Abiel; Smith, Richard; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Joseph and William Greenleaf. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve on the Petition of Thomas Rice and others. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Thomas Rice and others, setting forth the distressed state of the Inhabitants at the Eastward. [1775-08-15] Rice, Thomas; Sewall, Dummer; Howard, William; Jones, William; Woodbridge, Benjamin; Davis, Moses; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0342] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Accounts. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0343] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve on the Petition of Dr. Ebenezer Marvin. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0343] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Dr. Ebenezer Marvin. [1775-08-18] Marvin, Ebenezer; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0343] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolves on Benedict Arnold's account. [1775-08-19] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0344] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Benedict Arnold's Account of expenditures on his expedition to Ticonderoga. [1775-08-19] Arnold, Benedict; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0344] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition. [1775-08-19] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0344] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on Governour Hutchinson's Letters. [1775-08-19] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0345] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report of the Committee on the Petition of Messrs. Obrian and Foster. [1775-08-19] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0346] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolves on the Petition of Benjamin Foster and Jeremiah Obrian, of Machias. [1775-08-21] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0346] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Benjamin Foster and Jeremiah Obrian, of Machias. [1775-08-21] Foster, Benjamin; Obrian, Jeremiah; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0346] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Commissions ordered for the Officers of the two Armed Vessels fitted out by the Inhabitants of Machias, Committee to revise the Resolves relative to the Instructions to the Committee on the Clothing for the Army, Committee appointed to procure a Blanket for Lewis, the Indian Chief, directed to procure Blankets for four others. [1775-08-21] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0347] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Message. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0349] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Report on the Petition of the Selectmen of Watertown. [1775-08-18] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0349] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to consider the manner of supplying the Armed Vessels with Provisions and Ammunition. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0349] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Act to confirm and establish the Resolves of the several Provincial Congresses of this Colony. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives; Adams, Samuel. [S4-V3-p0350] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
William Baker. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0350] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve on the Petition of Joshua Davis. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0350] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Joshua Davis. [1775-08-22] Davis, Joshua; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0350] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on a Petition of Edward Emerson for permission to fit out a Privateer. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0351] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Act prescribing the form of an Oath to be taken by all Commission Officers, civil and military, of the Colony. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0352] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Message. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0353] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to make inquiry in the Colony for virgin Lead and Leaden Ore. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0353] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee on the Petition of George Armstrong, praying a reward for his bravery at Noddle's Island, and c. while a volunteer in the American Army. [1775-08-22] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0353] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Jeremiah Obrian, Commander of the armed Schooner Diligent, and of the Sloop Machias-Liberty, authorized to fit out the Vessels at the expense of the colony, Committee to repair to Swanzey, and inquire into the complaints made against Jerathmeel Bowers, a Member of this House. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0354] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0355] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Hannah Goldthwait, of Boston. [1775-08-22] Goldthwait, Hannah; Spring, Marshall; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0355] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0355] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Pay Roll of the Sloop Enterprise, on Lake Champlain. [1775-07-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0355] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0355] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Boston jail. [1775-08-23] Adams, Samuel; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0356] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolve. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0356] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Act for making and emitting Bills of Publick Credit, to the amount of One Hundred Thousand Pounds, lawful money. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0357] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Refuge. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0359] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to apply themselves diligently to the manufacturing of Saltpetre for the space of three months. [1775-08-23] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0359] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Ebenezer Briggs. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0360] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolves. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0360] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of the Armourers employed in the service of the Colony. [1775-07-18] Guilliam, Benjamin; Marriner, Benjamin; Liscom, Samuel; Steele, John; Wade, Obed; Dunbar, Seth; Whitney, Caleb; Steele, John, Jr.; Steele, Reuben; Blasdell, Jonathan; Cole, Daniel; Badger, Obed; Eaton, Isaiah; Mountfort, Benjamin; Kenney, Samuel; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0360] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to sign the Bills of Credit to be issued, Vessels permitted to go on Whaling Voyages under certain restrictions. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0360] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolves of the Petition from the Selectmen of the Town of Wareham. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0362] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition from the Selectmen of the Town of Wareham. [1775-08-21] Briggs, Ebenezer; Savery, Samuel; Fearing, Noah; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0362] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Memorial. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0362] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Committee to receive and distribute Donations for the Poor of Boston. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0362] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0362] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Instructions to the Committee appointed to prepare Accounts of the sums disbursed by this Colony, in the present contest with Great Britain. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0363] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition and Pay-Roll. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0363] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Outstanding Monies. [1775-08-24] Farley, Michael; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0364] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolves. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0364] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Lydia Paddock. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0364] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Resolves on the Petition of Timothy Edwards and Sam'l Brown. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0365] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Petition of Timothy Edwards and Sam'l Brown. [1775-08-16] Edwards, Timothy; Brown, Samuel, Jr.; Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0365] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Adjourned to Wednesday, the 20th day of September next. [1775-08-24] Massachusetts, House of Representatives. [S4-V3-p0366] [Document Details][Complete Volume]