Boston Committee of Correspondence
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- 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, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 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, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774
- Boston, June 10, 1774. : Gentlemen, Whereas several of our brethren, members of the committees of correspondence in the neighbouring towns, have since our letter of the 8th instant applied to us, to know whether it was expected that the form of the covenant which we inclosed in our letter should be literally adopted ..
- Boston, June 21, 1779. : Gentlemen, By the inclosed votes and proceedings ... of the inhabitants of this town ... you will perceive how greatly we are alarmed at the depreciating state of our currency ..
- Boston, June 22d, 1773. : Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of the town of Boston, conformable to that duty which they have hitherto endeavoured to discharge with fidelity, again address you with a very fortunate important discovery; and cannot but express their grateful sentiments in having obtained the approbation of so large a majority of the towns in this colony ..
- Boston, March 30th, 1773. : By direction of the Committee of Correspondence for the town of Boston, I now transmit to you an attested copy of the proceedings of said town on the 8th instant ... [blank] clerk of the committee
- Boston, May 12, 1774. : Gentlemen, By the last advices from London we learn that an act has been passed by the British parliament for blocking up the harbour of Boston ..
- Boston, September 21, 1773. : Gentlemen, The state of public affairs undoubtedly still demands the greatest wisdom, vigilance and fortitude. ..
- Boston, September 27, 1774. : Gentlemen, The committees of correspondence of this and several of the neighbouring towns, having taken into consideration the vast importance of withholding from the troops now here, labour, straw, timber ... beg your close and serious attention to the inclosed resolves ..
- Gentlemen, The evils which we have long foreseen are now come upon this town and province, the long meditated stroke is now given to the civil liberty of this country? : ... The bill for blocking up the harbour of Boston is replete with injustice and cruelty ... There can be no doubt of our succeeding to the utmost of our wishes if we universally come into a solemn league, not to import goods from Great Britain ... we have drawn up a form of a covenant ..
- Gentlemen, The evils which we have long foreseen are now come upon this town and province, the long meditated stroke is now given to the civil liberty of this country? : ... The bill for blocking up the harbour of Boston is replete with injustice and cruelty ... There can be no doubt of our succeeding to the utmost of our wishes, if we universally come into a solemn league, not to import goods from Great Britain ... we have drawn up a covenant ..
- Boston, April 9, 1773. : Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of this town have received the following intelligence ..
- Boston, February 25, 1775. : Gentlemen, The following proceedings and votes of the joint committees of this and seven other towns are conveyed to you by their unanimous request. ... : At a meeting of the committees of correspondence of the several towns of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Medford, Lexington, Watertown, Brookline, and Concord ..
- Boston, February 27. 1777. : Gentlemen, At a time when degenerate Britons are with brutal rage ..
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- Notification. : The town having at the late meeting appointed a Committee of Correspondence "to state the rights of the colonists ... and to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this province, and to the world ..." ... they are ready to make report----the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, qualified as the law directs, are hereby notified to meet at Faneuil-Hall, on Friday the 20th day of November instant ... to receive and act upon said report ..
- Boston, December 1, 1773. : Gentlemen, The Committee of Correspondence for this town had just prepared their letter covering the proceedings of the town at their two late meetings ... when a ship arrived from London with part of the East-India Company's teas ..
- To the public. : By the following letters, these facts appear unquestionable, viz. That the Committee of Fify-One first proposed a general congress to the people of Boston ..
- In consequence of a conference with the committees of correspondence for the towns in the vicinity of Boston, November 23, 1773, and with their advice the following letter is addressed. : Gentlemen, The present posture of affairs, engages the attention of all the friends of the happy constitution which our fathers framed ..
- At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, : duly qualified and legally warned, in public town meeting assembled at Faneuil-Hall, on Tuesday the 26th day of July, Anno Domini 1774 ... Voted, that a printed copy of the following letter to our brethren in the several towns ... be forthwith signed by the town-clerk, and transmitted by the Committee of Correspondence ..
- Boston, April 10, 1783. : At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston ... Resolved, that this town will at all times ... oppose every enemy to the just rights and liberties of mankind: And that after so wicked a conspiracy ... by certain ingrates ... who have been refugees and declared traitors to their country, --it is the opinion of this town, that they ought never to be suffered to return, but be excluded from having lot or portion among us. ... And the Committee of Correspondence are hereby requested ... to write to the several towns ... to come into the same, or similar resolves, if they shall think fit
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