14731Report of the Committee on Proposals for Boston’s Conduct under the Port Act., 18 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
18 May 1774. Report of the Committee on Proposals for Boston’s conduct under the Port Act. No Dft found. printed : Boston Record Commissioners, 18th Report City of Boston, Record Commissioners, Reports , Boston, 1876–1909; 39 vols. , p. 175. Prepared by a committee appointed 13 May composed of Samuel Adams, John Rowe, Thomas Boylston, William Phillips, Joseph Warren, John Adams, Josiah Quincy,...
14732[Diary entry: 18 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
18. Dined at the Club at Mrs. Campbells and Spent the Evening at Southalls.
14733[Diary entry: 18 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
18. Clear and rather incling. to turn warm—there being but little Wind.
14734[Diary entry: 19 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Dined & Spent the Evening at Mrs. Campbells.
14735[Diary entry: 19 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Warm with but little Wind and that Southerly.
14736[Diary entry: 20 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. Dined at Mrs. Campbells & Spent the afternoon at my own lodgings.
14737[Diary entry: 20 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. Very warm, with a Thunder Shower in the Afternoon.
14738To George Washington from Edward Snickers, 20 May 1774 (Washington Papers)
I have received a Letter from Mr Hughes directed to you, and One to William Bird Esqre to your care; which please to deliver; And the Contents (I believe) is, to get him his Warrants for his Lands, which, I hope, you will endeavour to do, and send them to me by the Bearer Mr Smith, and I will take them to him immediately, that he may make Sale of One of them to get himself out of Prison. I...
14739A Method of Humbling Rebellious American Vassals, 21 May 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Public Advertiser , May 21, 1774. Permit me, thro’ the Channel of your Paper, to convey to the Premier, by him to be laid before his Mercenaries, our Constituents, my own Opinion, and that of many of my Brethren, Freeholders of this imperial Kingdom of the most feasible Method of humbling our rebellious Vassals of North America. As we have declared by our Representatives that we...
14740[Diary entry: 21 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
21st. Dined at the Speakers & went up to Colo. Bassetts in the afternoon. During this week, news reached Williamsburg of the passage of an act by the British Parliament closing the port of Boston on 1 June until it paid reparations for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party the previous December.