1Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress, 11 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
Watertown, 11 November 1775. (Misc. Papers of the Continental Congress, Reel No. 8). Although the...
2The Settlement with Franklin for His Massachusetts Agency, [23 October 1775] (Franklin Papers)
DS and copy: Massachusetts Archives Ever since Franklin’s appointment in 1770 as agent of the...
3To Benjamin Franklin from a Committee of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 13 July 1771 (Franklin Papers)
LS : University of Virginia Library For many years the Massachusetts General Court had passed...
4To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 6 November 1770 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Massachusetts Historical Society These instructions introduced Franklin to the boiling...
5To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 25 June 1771 (Franklin Papers)
LS : University of Virginia Library and Harvard University Library At the present Session of the...
6To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 29 June 1771 (Franklin Papers)
LS : University of Virginia Library Your Letter of the 5th. of Febry last has been laid before...
7Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the Command of Castle William, 23 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
23 October 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of...
8Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the Command of Castle William, 20 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives of...
Your Excellency’s Speech to the General Assembly at the Opening of this Session, has been read...
15 June 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives...
11III. Reply of the House to Hutchinson’s Second Message, 2 March 1773 (Adams Papers)
In your Speech at the Opening of the present Session, your Excellency express’d your Displeasure...
12Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Requesting the Return of the General Court to Boston, 7 June 1770 (Adams Papers)
7 June 1770. MS ( M-Ar ), in an unidentified hand. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the...
13Reply to a Speech of Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson, 31 July 1770 (Adams Papers)
31 July 1770. MS , fair copy, in the hand of Samuel Adams ( MB ). Printed: Mass., House Jour....
14Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on his Speech to the General Court, 4 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
4 October 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of...
15Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the Style of Enacting Laws, 6 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
6 November 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of...
16Committee of Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin, 17 December 1770 (Adams Papers)
Boston, 17 December 1770. RC ( MeHi ). Printed: Franklin, Papers The Papers of Benjamin Franklin...
10 April 1771. MS ( P.R.O. : Colonial Office, 5:760). Prepared by a committee appointed and...
28 September 1770. MS not found. Prepared by a committee appointed 27 September, composed of...
5 October 1770. MS not found. Prepared by a committee appointed and reporting 5 October, composed...
20Committee Report on the State of the Province, 16 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
16 November 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of...
21Committee Report on the Petition of Gyles Merrill, 10 April 1771 (Adams Papers)
10 April 1771. MS not found. Prepared by a committee appointed and reporting the same day,...
This House having duly consider’d and being deeply affected with the unhappy Differences which...
12 June 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives...
17 October 1770. MS not found. Draft prepared by a committee appointed 16 October composed of JA...
25An Act for the Limitation of Personal Actions, 20 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
20 November 1770. MS , engrossed copy, signed by Hutchinson ( M-Ar ). Printed: Mass., Province...