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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 19, 1778 : gentlemen, the exertions lately made by this Court, to put the currency of the United States on such a footing as to answer the great purpose for which it was emitted ...

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. (1778)

In the House of Representatives, June 7th, 1776 : a resolve of the late House of Representatives passed on the 10th of May, 1776, that the inhabitants of each town in this colony ought to be in full meeting warned for that purpose, to advise the person or persons who should be chosen to represent them in the next general court - whether, should the honorable Congress, for the safety of the said colonies, declare them independent of the kingdom of Great-Britain ...

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. (1776)

In the House of Representatives, September 17th, 1776. : resolved, that it be recommended to the male inhabitants of each town in this state, being free and twenty-one years of age or upwards, that they assemble as soon as they can in town-meeting ... and that in such meeting, they consider and determine whether they will give their consent that the present House of Representatives.

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. (1776)

In the House of Representatives, June 26, 1776 : whereas repeated applications have been made by the honorable Congress to this Court, to procure a sum of hard money, to be forthwith sent into Canada, for the support of our army ...

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. (Benjamin Edes, 1776)

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, 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)

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)

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, 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)

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