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A Letter from Mr [John] Barber read;
Thereupon, Ordered, That it be committed to Doctr [Samuel] Holton, Mr [Nathaniel Peasley] Sargeant, and Colo [Seth] Pomeroy, to consider thereof, and Report.
The Committee thereon reported, Verbally, that Colo [Samuel] Thompson be desired immediately to repair to Brunswick, Casco Bay, Woolwich, Georgetown, and other places, and take the most effectual measures...
Date: 11 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Ordered, That Mr. Gerry, Colonel Cushing, Colonel Barrett, Captain Stone, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Watson, and Esquire Dix, be a Committee to take Depositions in perpetuam, from which a full account of the Transactions of the Troops under General Gage, in their route to and from Concord, &c. on Wednesday last, may be collected, to be sent to England by the first ship from...
Date: 22 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry read in his place a Letter from Marblehead, reporting that the British Man-of-War Lively was lying off the Harbour of that Town; representing that their means of defence were inadequate to repel attack; and asking direction and aid; upon which,
Resolved, That the matter subside until further information.
Date: 23 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted, That a Committee be appointed to draw up a Narrative of the Massacre on Wednesday last [April 19]
Ordered, That Dr. [Benjamin] Church, [Jr.], Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, & Mr. [Thomas] Cushing, be that Committee.
Date: 24 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter from Salem [was] read, setting forth the expediency to the Depositions we are now taking to be forwarded as fast as possible, the same [was] ordered to be sent to the Committee for that purpose at Lexington, immediately.
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Ordered, That the Letter drawn by the Committee to send to Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin, as Agent, be copied and authenticated by the President pro tempore.
The Depositions taken by the Committee for that purpose, laid on the table, and ordered to be read.
Ordered, That the Committee make duplicates of the same, and Captain [Josiah] Stone, Jonas Dix, Esq; Colonel [John] Tyng, Colonel [Nathaniel]...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
From the entire Confidence we Repose in your faithfulness and Abilities, we consider it the happiness of this Colony, that the important trust of Agency for it, in this day of unequalled Distress, is devolved on your hands, and we doubt not, your Attachment to the Cause and liberties of Mankind, will make every possible Exertion in our behalf, a Pleasure to you; altho' our circumstances will...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas a worthy Friend to the Liberties of America, Mr John Brown of Providence hath been lately seized, & with two other persons carried on board a British Ship of War at Newport.
Ordered, That Samuel Murray & such officers of Gen [Thomas] Gages Army as are now prisoners of War & not disabled from travelling on account of their Wounds be immediately sent under a Sufficient guard to...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It [is] with the deepest Concern that We find Mr [John] Browne, that devoted Friend to the Cause of America, betrayed into the Hands of our common Enemies & every Measure for his Release that can be pursued by us shall most earnestly be adopted
We have ordered Samuel Murray son of the Mandamus Counceller & such officers of General [Thomas] Gages Army as are prisoners of War & not...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The President having received a Letter from Messrs. Nicholas Brown and Joseph Brown, dated Providence, April 27, 1775, desiring that the Congress would observe secrecy in respect to the capture of their brother, John Brown, at Newport, on the 26th instant: And also another from the Honourable Stephen Hopkins, Esquire, dated Providence, April 27th, 1775, presented the same to this Congress; which...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the application from the Committee of Safety relative to supplying Col [Benedict] Arnold with one hundred Pounds, and sundry Warlike Stores,
Ordered, That Mr. [Benjamin] Greenleaf, Mr. [Moses] Gill, and Mr. [George] Patridge, be a Committee to take said application into consideration and report.
The Committee on the application from the Committee of Safety reported. The Report was read and...
Date: 3 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On a motion made by Capt McCobb, that some measures might be taken to preserve a Number of large Masts, Plank &c now lying in Kennebec River, and to prevent their being carried to Hallifax, where they might be appropriated to the injury of this Countryー
Ordered ー That the Consideration thereof be referred to the Committee of Safety & that Capt Mc Cobb be desired to attend the said...
Date: 5 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Information being made to this Congress that two Men-of-War, with Troops, had sailed from Boston to New-York,2 with a design, as it is supposed, of frustrating a deign of the inhabitants of that Colony and Connecticut, to secure the Arms and Ammunition now in the Fort at New-York.
Ordered, That Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Colonel [James] Warren, and Col. [Benjamin] Lincoln, be a Committee to...
Date: 11 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We are directed by the Congress of this Colony, who are just informed that two Men of War, the Asia & another with three or four Companies of Troops on board sailed yesterday from Boston for your place, to give you the earliest Notice thereofー
It is supposed that they have orders to secure the Ammunition & military Stores in the Fort of your City &c & your noble Exertions in the...
Date: 11 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Ordered, That Mr. [James] Sullivan, Capt [Josiah] Stone, Colo [Michael] Farley, Major [Eleazer] Brooks, and Doctr Rawson, be a Committee to take into consideration a verbal information of the Capture of three Vessels, by a Kings Cutter, at Dartmouth, and the retaking two of them, & 15 Marines prisoners
The Committee who were appointed to consider the information from Dartmouth reported. The...
Date: 16 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter from Edward Mott to this Congress, dated 11th May, 1775, giving an account of the taking of the Fortress at Ticonderoga, was read, together with a Letter from Ethan Allen. Also an application from Col. [James] Easton and others; whereupon,
Ordered, That Colonel Foster, Mr. [James] Sullivan, and Doctor [Samuel] Holten, be a Committee to introduce Colonel Easton to this House, to give a...
Date: 17 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Ordered, That Colonel [Samuel] Thompson have the following Letter sent him
Sir: This Congress have Received Information that the Committee of Correspondence of the Town of Falmouth, on hearing that you were about making an attack on the Canceaux, Man of War, Lying in the harbour of that Town, desired you to forbear any proceedings of that kind; which you promised to do; but that you afterwards...
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Ordered, That Mr. Sullivan, Colonel Foster, Doctor Holten, Mr. Bragdon, and Captain Batchelder, be a Committee to take into consideration a Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Falmouth, and such parts of a Letter from the Honourable Enoc Freeman, Esq. to the Secretary, as he may communicate.
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of Connecticut, was read, respecting the taking of Ticonderoga; Whereupon,
Ordered, That Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry prepare an answer thereto, informing them what steps this Congress have taken relative to that affair.
Mr. Gerry reported an Answer to a Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of Connecticut, which was accepted.
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter was received from the Committee of Safety, enclosing a communication from Colonel Benedict Arnold, giving information of the surrender of Ticonderoga.
Ordered, That the following Letter to Colonel Arnold, reported by a Committee, be accepted, signed by the Secretary, and forwarded in the name and behalf of this Congress, as soon as may be.
Date: 22 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1