1To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee of Correspondence, 17 December 1770 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Maine Historical Society The House of Representatives of this Province after appointing you their Agent at the Court of Great Britain, directed us to correspond with you in the Recess of the Court upon matters that concern the Interest of the Province. In general there is nothing that will more promote the true Interest of this Province as well as Great Britain herself than a happy...
2To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee of Correspondence, 21 December 1773 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Library of Congress; LS : Harvard University Library; draft: Boston Public Library It has been the Expectation of many of the Colonists that the last Session of Parliament would have put a final end to those Grievances under which they had so long been oppressed, and against which they had so long, in vain, Remonstrated. They expected that the Revenue Acts would have been Repealed and...
3To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee of Correspondence, 31 March 1774 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: New York Public Library The leaders in Massachusetts, as this document testifies, were stimulated rather than satiated by destruction of the tea. They seem to have taken their text from the Psalmist, “they will go from strength to strength”; and the test of strength that they chose was the old issue of officials’ salaries. It had been coming to a...