1Committee of the Massachusetts General Court to John Adams and Francis Dana, 22 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
This Government the last Winter appointed Jonathan Loring Austin Esq. their Agent to repair to Europe and procure the Loan of One hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling, part of which he was impowered and directed to invest in Goods for the use of the Officers and Soldiers belonging to the Army, as the Papers herewith inclosed will more fully inform you. Mr. Austin sailed the 22d day of...
Inclosed you have an Account of Powder supplyed the Army lately before Boston, by this Colony. We have not been able to procure the proper Vouchers for the delivery of the whole of it to the Army, but as it was delivered on the day of the Battle at Bunker Hill and at other times of Alarm and Confusion, we trust that neglect will be excused. The Account is not supposed to contain the whole of...
3To George Washington from the Massachusetts General Court, 24 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Board have received your Favour of the 19th instant, and are much obliged to your Excellency for the particular Account you have favoured us with, relative to the Attack and retreat of the Continental Troops from Long Island as also of their Evacuating the City of New York, We are glad to hear the retreat was Effected with the loss of but three or four Men. We shall have been Well pleased...
ALS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress Agreeable to the Directions of the Genl. Assembly of this State, I do myself the Honor to transmit One hundred Copies of An Act intitled “An Act to prevent the return to this State of certain persons named and described and others who have left the same and joined our inveterate and Cruel Enemies;” in Order that the same may be...
5To George Washington from the Massachusetts General Court, 18 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
This Court have attentively consider’d your Letter of the 12th Inst. & acquiesce in the Method propos’d of paying of the Troops from the 1st Augst & would inform your Excellency that this Court have taken [Measures] that the Province may not be defrauded & Justice done to the Men & likewise fulfill their Engagemts made the Troops. As to the Cloathing propos’d we apprehend there is an absolute...
The Committee of both Houses appointed to consider a Letter from General Washington to the President of the Council dated Decr: 18th: beg leave to report that we think it expedient that the honorable John Adams, and Robt. Treat Paine Esqrs: two of the Delegates to the Continental Congress now in this State be desired to attend this Court, that from them we may learn the general State of...
7To George Washington from the Massachusetts General Court, 13 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
The General Assembly of this State have for some days past, been anxiously expecting the particulars of the late attack upon the Continental Army under your Excellency’s more immediate Command; but the accounts hitherto received, have been vague, & uncertain. It is the earnest desire of the Assembly, at this important crisis, to furnish you with every needed Assistance in their power; and...
8Address from the Massachusetts General Court, 28 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
When the Liberties of America were Attacked by the Violent hand of Oppression; when troops, hostile to the rights of humanity, Invaded this Colony, seized our Capital, and spread havoc and destruction around it; when our virtuous Sons were Murdered, and our houses destroyed by the troops of Britain; The Inhabitants of this & the other American Colonies, impelled by self preservation & the love...
The General Court of the Colony which you represent in Congress, now incloses you an application, made to your Honorable Assembly for a Grant of the sum therein mentioned: which application you will lay before said Congress or not, as you shall judge prudent. The frequent calls this Colony has been obliged to attend to in support of the Army, together with those daily made for that purpose,...
10The General Court to the Massachusetts Delegates, 6 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
At the same time that we think Ourselves obliged to acknowledge the vigilance and care of our Delegates to the defence of our Colony, and the attention of the Congress to an impartial defence of every part of the united Colonies, in the late provision made for the Massachusetts Bay, their Resolve for adding three more Battalions to those left for the defence of it; we conceive it necessary to...