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By the Honourable William Dummer Esq; ... a proclamation : whereas within some short time past many fires have broke out within the town of Boston, and divers buildings have been thereby consumed; which fires have been designedly and industriously kindled by some villanous & desperate Negroes, or other dissolute people ...

Massachusetts. Lieutenant-Governor, 1716-1730 (William Dummer) (Printed by B. Green, 1723)
An act passed by the great and General Court or assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay : begun and held at Boston the 27th day of May, and continued by adjournment and prorogation to the 3rd of February following

Massachusetts. General Court. (1747)
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Nov. 19, 1754 : upon consideration of his Excellency's message of this day, ordered, that the assessors ... forthwith send into the Secretary's office the exact number of the Negro-slaves, both males and females ...

Massachusetts. General Court. (1754)
In the House of Representatives, December 27, 1755 : whereas a considerable number of the inhabitants of Nova-Scotia arrived here the 26th instant, being removed by the governor and council of that province for the security thereof ; and no provision being made for their support here, they are in great danger of suffering during this rigorous season, without the interposition of the court

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. (1755)
Boston, December 1, 1773 : at a meeting of the people of Boston, and the neighbouring towns, at Faneuil-Hall, in said Boston, on Monday the 29th of November 1773, nine o'clock a.m. and continued by adjournment to the next day; for the purpose of consulting, advising and determining upon the most proper and effectual method to prevent the unloading, receiving or vending the detestable tea sent out by the East-India Company, part of which being just arrived in this harbour ...

Unknown author (Edes and Gill, 1773)
In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, October 26, 1774 : whereas in consequence of the present unhappy disputes between Great-Britain and the colonies, a formidable body of troops with warlike preparations of every sort are already arrived at, and others destined for the metropolis of this province , and the expressed design of their being sent is to execute acts of the British parliament, utterly subversive of the constitution of the province ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Edes and Gill, 1774)
We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... : do ... covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... June, 1774.

Unknown author (Edes and Gill, 1774)
In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 5, 1774 : resolved, that the proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the fifth of September last, and reported by the honourable delegates from this colony, have with the deliberation due to their high importance been considered by us ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Edes and Gill, 1774)
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, April 30, 1775

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Benjamin Edes?, 1775)
In the House of Representatives, October 31, 1775 : resolved, that Dr. Whiting, a member of the committee appointed by this Court to improve the art and business of manufacturing salt petre, be directed immediately to repair again to the colony of Connecticut ...

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. (Benjamin Edes, 1775)
In Provincial Congress, at Watertown, April 23, 1775 : resolved, that the following establishment of forces now immediately to be raised for the recovery and preservation of our undoubted rights and liberties, be as follows, viz. ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Benjamin Edes, 1775)
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 1, 1775 : whereas the inhabitants of the town of Boston have been detained by General Gage, but at length (by agreement) are permitted to remove with their effects into the country ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Benjamin Edes, 1775)
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 5, 1775 : whereas the term for which this present Congress was chose, expires on the thirtieth instant, and the exigencies of our public affairs, render it absolutely necessary for the safety of this colony, that a new congress be elected and convened, to consider of, and transact the public affair thereof ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (E. Russell, 1775)
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 30, 1775 : resolved, that all offences committed by any of the soldiers rais'd for defence of the sea coast, shall be tried by a court martial ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Benjamin Edes, 1775)
In Provincial Congress, Concord, March 31, 1775 : whereas this congress is informed, that many collectors and constables, having in their hands considerable sums of the public monies of this colony, have hitherto neglected to pay the same to Henry Gardner, esq. of Stow, and the congress earnestly attentive to the ease of the inhabitants of the colony are desirous of completing the preparations so essentially necessary for the public safety, without calling on them for other monies than such as are now due to the colony ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Benjamin Edes, 1775)
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, July 9, 1775 : whereas there is now a very pressing demand for some articles of cloathing, more especially of shirts, breeches, stockings and shoes, in the army raised by the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, and there is danger of very mischievous consequences from a delay of supplying the same ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Benjamin Edes, 1775)
In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, February 14, 1775 : whereas it appears necessary for the defence of the lives, liberties, and properties, of the inhabitants of this province, that this congress on the first day of their next session, should be made fully acquainted with the number and military equipments of the militia, and minute men in this province ; and also the town stock of ammunition in each town and district ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress. (Edes and Gill, 1775)
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, December 9, 1776 : whereas great inconveniences may take place from our not knowing the number of male inhabitants in each town and plantation ...

Massachusetts. General Court. (Benjamin Edes, 1776)
Colony of Massachusett's-Bay, 1776 : we the subscribers, do each of us severally for ourselves, profess, testify and declare, before God and the world, that we verily believe that the war, resistance and opposition in which the United American Colonies are now engaged, against the fleets and armies of Great-Britain, is on the part of the said colonies, just and necessary ...

Unknown author (Benjamin Edes, 1776)
County of Essex, colony of Massachusetts-Bay : as the connexion between Great-Britain and this continent is growing every day more and more loose and uncertain ... as we may soon be obliged to take up independency for ourselves ...

Essex County (Mass.) (Ezekiel Russell, 1776)