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Massachusetts, Associated Pastors of Boston  ●  Answer to the preceding Letter, prepared but not sent, through the confusion of the times  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Barristers and Attorneys at Law; Auchmuty, Robert; Sewall, Jonathan; Fitch, Samuel; Quincy, Samuel; Pinchon, William; Putnam, James; Gridley, Benjamin; Willard, Abel; Cazneau, Andrew; Leonard, Daniel; Lowell, John; Oliver, Daniel; Blowers, Sampson S.; Bourn, Shearjashub; Bliss, Daniel; Porter, Samuel; Ingersoll, David; Rogers, Jeremiah D.; Gorham, David; Sewall, Samuel; Sprague, John; Chandler, Rufus; Danforth, Thomas; Bradish, Ebenezer  ●  Address presented to Governour Hutchinson, by several Gentlemen of the Law  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence  ●  Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of Boston, to the Continental Congress. Account of the attack upon the House of Joseph Scott. Upon the discovery of his selling Cannon to General Gage  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence  ●  Letter from the Joint Committees of Boston and the neighbouring Towns, to every Town and District in the Province  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence  ●  Meeting of the Selectmen and Committee of Correspondence of Boston. Consider it inexpedient for the Mechanicks, or other Inhabitants of the Town, to assist the Troops, by furnishing them with Artificers, Labourers, or materials of any kind to build Barracks  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence; Appleton, Nathaniel  ●  Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of Boston, to the Committee for New Jersey  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Correspondence; Cooper, William  ●  Letter from William Cooper to Israel Putnam, Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence for Brooklyn, in Connecticut  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee of Donations  ●  Letter from the People of Northampton County, Virginia, of the 30th August, to the Committee of Donations, at Boston  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee; Cooper, William  ●  Address of the Boston Committee sent to the People of every Town in the Province, with the Covenant  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee; Cooper, William  ●  Form of the Covenant sent to every Town in Massachusetts  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee; Cooper, William  ●  Letter from the Committee of Boston to the Committee of Baltimore  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Committee; Massachusetts, Roxbury Committee; Massachusetts, Dorchester Committee; Massachusetts, Watertown Committee; Massachusetts, Charlestown Committee; Massachusetts, Cambridge Committee; Massachusetts, Mistick Committee; Massachusetts, Dedham Committee; Massachusetts, Milton Committee; Massachusetts, Malden Committee of Correspondence and Inspection; Massachusetts, Braintree Committee; Massachusetts, Woburn Committee of Correspondence; Massachusetts, Stow Committee  ●  Meeting of the Committees of Boston and the neighbouring Towns. Resolve that any person who may supply the Troops at Boston with any thing for the annoyance of the Inhabitants, shall be deemed an inveterate enemy of the People  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Episcopal Ministers and Wardens  ●  Address of the Episcopal Ministers and Wardens, in Boston, to Governour Hutchinson  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Freeholders; Adams, John; Cooper, William  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, None at the Meeting in favour of paying for the Tea (Note)  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Freeholders; Cooper, William  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, at Faneuil Hall, June 28  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Freeholders; Cooper, William  ●  Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, at Faneuil Hall. Correspondence of the Committee ordered to be produced and read. Motion to censure and annihilate the Committee. Gentlemen in favour of the motion patiently heard at their request the Meeting adjourned until to-morrow morning. The question then taken, and the motion rejected by a vast majority. Conduct of the Committee approved  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Merchants and Traders  ●  Address of Merchants, Traders, and others, of Boston, presented to Governour Gage, at Salem  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Merchants and Traders Meeting  ●  Protest of the Merchants and Traders of the Town of Boston, unanimously voted, at a full Meeting, against a Paper called an Address to Governour Hutchinson, handed about, and signed, in a private manner  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Selectmen; Scolly, John  ●  Address of the Selectmen of Boston to General Gage, on his fortifying the entrance to the Town, and the abuse and assaulting of the People passing in and out of the Town, by the Guards  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Town Meeting  ●  Meeting at Faneuil Hall, Boston, recommend to the People patience, fortitude, and a firm trust in God, Votes passed at this Meeting  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Town Meeting  ●  The Port Bill received at Boston (Note), General Gage arrived at Boston (Note), Town Meeting in Boston -- Advise the stoppage of all Imports from, and all Exports to, Great Britain and the West Indies, till the Port Bill is repealed, This vote ordered to be sent to all the Colonies Committee appointed to consider what measures are proper for the Town to adopt, in the present emergency, Committee appointed to consult with Salem and Marblehead, Paul Revere despatched with Letters to the Southern Colonies (Note), Election of Committee of Fifty at New-York, to correspond with the Colonies, on all matters of moment General Gage landed in Boston. Sworn into office as Governour, and invited to a publick entertainment at Faneuil Hall (Note)  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Town Meeting; Cooper, William  ●  Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Boston Town Meeting; Cooper, William  ●  Town Meeting in Boston. Circular Letter to the Towns relative to the Bills for vacating the Charter of Massachusetts  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Committee of Safety  ●  Committee of Supplies requested to procure all the Arms and Ammunition they can, in the neighbouring Provinces on the Continent  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Committee of Safety  ●  Committee of Supplies requested to procure and deposite Provisions at Worcester and Concord  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Committee of Safety  ●  Committee of Supplies to procure certain Military Stores. Committee to examine the Commissary's Store in Boston, and report what Surgeons' Stores, and Stores of other kinds, are there  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Committee of Safety  ●  Committee to get seven large pieces of Cannon out of Boston, to some place in the country, in such manner as they may think most prudent  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Cumberland County Convention  ●  Report presented by the committee, and unanimously accepted  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Cumberland County Convention; Tyng, William; Freeman, Samuel  ●  Convention of the several Towns of the County of Cumberland, in Massachusetts, Sheriff of the County required to attend the Convention, He subscribes a Declaration that he has not acted under the late Acts of Parliament and that he will not, without the general consent of the County Committee appointed to draw up the sentiments of the Convention  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Easton Freeholders; Massachusetts, Easton Tradesmen  ●  Address of the Freeholders and Tradesmen of Easton, in the County of Bristol, to Governour Gage  ●  1774

Massachusetts, House of Representatives  ●  Answer of the House of Representatives to the Speech of Governour Gage, at the opening of the Session  ●  1774

Massachusetts, House of Representatives  ●  Resolutions of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. A Congress highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon the present state of the Colonies. Delegates on the part of the Province appointed. Discontinuance of the use of India Teas, and of the use of all Goods and Manufactures imported from the East Indies and Great Britain, recommended. Encouragement of American Manufactures, recommended.  ●  1774

Massachusetts, House of Representatives  ●  Resolutions of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. Convening the General Assembly at any other place than Boston, unnecessarily, a great Grievance  ●  1774

Massachusetts, House of Representatives; Cushing, Thomas  ●  Committee of Correspondence lay before the House Letter from Massachusetts Bay  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Marblehead Inhabitants; Hinkly, Richard; Reed, Samuel; Lee, John; Ambrose, Robert; Glover, Jonathan; Phillips, Richard; Mansfield, Isaac; Bubler, Joseph; Stacey, Richard; Proctor, Thomas; Fowle, John; Hooper, Robert, III; Prince, John; McCall, George; Swasey, Joseph; Bowen, Nathan; Robie, Thomas; Stimson, John; Webb, John; Lee, Joseph; Hooper, Sweet; Saunders, Henry; Hooper, Robert; Gallison, John; Fowle, Jacob; Pederick, John; Reed, Richard; Marston, Benjamin; White, Samuel; Hooper, Joseph; Pentice, John; Hooper, Robert, Jr.; Lewis, Thomas  ●  Address presented to Governour Hutchinson, by sundry Gentlemen of Marblehead  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Marblehead Merchants and Traders  ●  Offer by the Merchants and Traders of Marblehead, of their Stores and Wharves, to their oppressed brethren of Boston, during the operation of the Boston Port Bill  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Marblehead Town Meeting  ●  Declaration of Marblehead, relative to the Address from sundry Inhabitants of the Town to Governour Hutchinson, unanimously voted at a legal Town Meeting  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Middlesex County Committees; Bridge, Ebenezer  ●  Meeting of the Committees from every Town and District, in the County of Middlesex, and Province of Massachusetts Bay, Committee appointed to consider the Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Report of the Committee Adopted by the Meeting, Towns in the County recommended to elect Delegates to a Provincial Congress, to meet at Concord, on the second Tuesday in October  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Middlesex County Magistrates  ●  Address from the Magistrates of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to Governour Hutchinson  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Plymouth County Justices  ●  Address of the Justices of the County of Plymouth, to Governour Gage  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Portsmouth Merchants and Traders  ●  Mr. Goddard at Portsmouth: At a Meeting of the Committee of Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants, a Subscription to support the American Post Office, unanimously agreed upon (Note)  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Address to the Clergy  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Address to the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Towns and Districts of Massachusetts Bay  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Address to the Governour reported by the Committee, read and accepted, with one dissenting voice only Committee to present Address to the Governour  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee appointed to take into consideration the state of the Province  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee of Safety appointed, Five Commissaries appointed, Three General Officers appointed, Committee to sit during the recess of the Congress, appointed, Receiver General to be appointed to-morrow and Members particularly enjoined to attend, Reply to the Governour's Answer recommitted for amendments  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee on Non-Consumption Agreement ordered to sit forthwith  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee on an Address from the Baptists to the Congress, Report of Committee relative to Publick Moneys in the hands of Constables and others, adopted, Committee on a Plan of Military Exercise proposed by Captain Pickering, Report of Committee on Address from the Baptists, adopted, Committee on Letter from the Town of Hardwick  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to ascertain the number of Constitutional Consellors now in Town  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to consider of the most proper time to provide a stock of Powder, Ordnance, and Ordnance Stores for the Province, Committee on Non-Consumption Agreement directed to report forthwith, Debates of the Congress to be kept secret, until leave shall be given to disclose the same Committee report that now is the proper time to provide a stock of Powder, Ordnance, and Ordnance Stores, Committee to determine what Quantity shall be provided, and an Estimate of the expense, Consideration of Report on the Safety and Defence of the Province resumed, and recommitted for further amendments  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to correspond with the Inhabitants of Canada appointed, Brief to be circulated through the Province, to promote Donations for the Sufferers in Boston and Charlestown  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to devise means of keeping up a Correspondence with Montreal and Quebeck Committee to prepare Form of an Order with respect to the Treasurer's Bond  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to inquire into the state of the Stores in the Commissary General's Office, Report on the quantity of Powder and Ordnance Stores necessary for the Province, All matters which shall come under the consideration of the Congress, to be kept secret, Report on the Safety and Defence of the Province  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to make an estimate of the loss and damage of every kind, occasioned by the Acts of Parliament since the operation of the Port Bill, Committee to state the amount of the Sums which have been extorted from us since 1763, under certain Acts of the British Parliament  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to prepare a true state of the number of Inhabitants, and of the Exports and Imports of the Colony,  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to prepare an Address to the Clergy, desiring them to exhort the People to sustain the Congress, Report on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress adopted  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to publish certain parts of the Proceedings of the Congress, passed on the 26th and 28th  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to publish the names of the Mandamus Counsellors and others, who have acted under commissions derived from the Act of Parliament  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to report a Non-Consumption Agreement relative to British and India Goods, Committee to examine Rivington's Newspaper, Resolution adopted, recommending the total disuse of India Tea, Report of Committee, on Defence of the Province, read, and deferred  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Committee to take into consideration the state of the Manufactures, and how they may be improved in the Province  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Consideration of the Report resumed, and recommitted, Consideration of the propriety of sending Agents to Canada, referred to the next meeting of the Congress, Day of Publick Thanksgiving throughout the Province recommended, Report on the Safety and Defence of the Province, amended, and recommitted for further amendment  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Constables, Collectors of Taxes, Deputy Sheriffs, and Sheriffs, directed not to pay over Money but to retain it in their hands, subject to the order of the Towns, Provincial Congress, or General Assembly  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Letters said to be wrote by the Rev. Mr. Peters, referred to the same Committee  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Mandamus Counsellors who have published a renunciation of their Commissions  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Massachusetts, Provincial Congress, October 17, 1774  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Members elected to serve in the General Assembly of Massachusetts, meet at Salem  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Members of the Continental Congress required to report their Proceedings, Dr. Appleton appointed Chaplain, Proceedings of the Continental Congress reported, read, and committed, Petition from Officers of the Minute Men, in the Northwest part of Worcester County, read and committed, Committee to prepare a Plan for the Defence and Safety of the Government, required to set forthwith, Committee to publish a list of the Mandamus Consellors, and others now in the Town or Boston, forthwith to prepare a Report  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Members to attend the Continental Congress on the 10th of May next, to be appointed tomorrow, Letters from Doctor Franklin to Mr. Cushing, read and referred to the Provincial Committee of Correspondence  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Names of the Delegates from the several Towns, Adjourn to meet at Concord  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Receiver General appointed, Report of Committee on the state of the Province, relative to the removal of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston from thence, read, and recommitted, Report relative to Collecting and Paying outstanding Taxes, read, and adopted, Committee to report a Resolve relative to a Non-Consumption Agreement, Committee to report on an equal Representation of the Province in Congress, at the next meeting, Constitutional Counsellors invited to attend Congress at the next meeting, The Resolve for a Non-Consumption Agreement, presented and adopted, Report on the Warlike Stores in the Commissary General's Office  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Reply to the Governour reported, read, and recommitted reported again, considered, and laid on the table  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Reply to the Governour's Answer agreed to, unanimously, and a Committee appointed to present it  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report considered and adopted, Committee to consider what Military Exercise will be best for the People of the Province to adopt  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report from the Committee appointed to inquire into the state and operations of the Army, Committee to consider what is necessary for the defence and safety of the Province, Report relative to Payment and Collecting of outstanding Rates and Taxes  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report of Committee on Proceedings of Continental Congress, read, considered, and recommitted, Thanks of the Congress to the other Colonies, for their Donations to the Town of Boston, Committee to call upon the Secretary for a list of the Mandamus Counsellors  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report of Committee on the state of the Province Members to represent the Province in Continental Congress, chosen  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report of Committee on the state of the Province relative to assuming Civil Government, considered, and laid on the table, Returns of the Officers and Men, of the Minute Men, and the Militia to be made  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report of Committee on the state of the Province, Expense of transmitting the Address to the Canadians to be paid by this Government, The Congress dissolved  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report of Committee on the state of the Province, considered  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report on Letter from Hardwick  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Report on a System of Military Exercise for the Province, Consideration of the state of the Executive Courts of the Province, referred to the next meeting of the Congress, Committee of Safety directed to write to the Continental Congress, showing the grounds and reasons of the proceedings of this Congress  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Resolution relative to the Counselors and others, who have acted in obedience to the late Act of Parliament, for altering the Government of Massachusetts Bay  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Resolutions recommending the encouragement of Manufactures in the Province  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  The Galleries ordered to be cleared, and the doors of the House to be kept shut during the Debates in the Congress, A Reply to be made to the Answer of the Governour  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  The Provincial Congress meets at Concord, John Hancock elected President, and Benjamin Lincoln Secretary  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  The Provincial Congress meets, agreeably to their adjournment. On the 29th of October Walter Spooner, one of his Majesty's Constitutional Council, desired to attend the Congress, John Adams and Robert Treat Paine, of the Continental Congress, desired to attend  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Two General Officers chosen  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress  ●  Two Members added to the Committee of Safety, Adjourned to the 23d of November  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Provincial Congress; Lincoln, Benjamin  ●  Their Resolutions on the refusal of the Governour to admit them to the usual oaths, Provincial Congress formed  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Salem Inhabitants  ●  Address of Merchants and others, Inhabitants of Salem, to Governour Gage  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Salem Merchants and Freeholders  ●  Address of Merchants and Freeholders of Salem, to Governour Gage  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Salem Town Meeting  ●  Town Meeting at Salem. Governour Gage orders the Meeting to be dispersed, and brings Troops to the Town. Members of the Committee of Correspondence arrested, for calling the Meeting without the permission of the Governour  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Springfield Inhabitants  ●  County Court, at Springfield, sign an engagement not to do any thing whatsoever, under any authority, derived or pretended, by the Act of Parliament, for the better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Suffolk County Delegates  ●  Address of the Committee to General Gage  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Suffolk County Delegates  ●  Committee appointed by the Delegates in Suffolk County, to wait on Governour Gage, and inform him of the alarm of the People at the Fortifications making on Boston Neck  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Suffolk County Delegates  ●  Resolutions adopted at a Meeting of the Delegates of every Town and District in the County of Suffolk, in Massachusetts  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Suffolk County Delegates  ●  The Answer of the Governour not satisfactory. Another Address unanimously voted to his Excellency  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Suffolk County Delegates  ●  The Governour declined receiving the second Address  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Suffolk County Justices, Court of Common Pleas  ●  Address of the Justices of the County of Suffolk, in Massachusetts, to Governour Gage  ●  1774

Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Justices of the Court of the General Sessions of the Peace  ●  Address of the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, for the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts, to Governour Gage  ●  1774