61Resolution appointing members to a joint committee to determine how bills of credit were to be signed and numbered, 26 … (Adams Papers)
26 December 1775. Resolution appointing members to a joint committee to determine how bills of credit were to be signed and numbered. M-Ar :207, p. 316. printed : Force, Archives [Peter Force, ed.,] American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Publick Affairs , Washington, 1837–1853; 9 vols. , 4th ser., 4:1243. (...
62Resolution to pay John Davis a sum in behalf of Edward Johnson, a petitioning soldier, 26 December 1775 (Adams Papers)
Resolution to pay John Davis a sum in behalf of Edward Johnson, a petitioning soldier. M-Ar :207, p. 317–318. ( M-Ar :207, p. 317–318).
63Resolution to approve committee report recommending payment to the Committee of Supplies for its services, in response … (Adams Papers)
26 December 1775. Resolution to approve committee report recommending payment to the Committee of Supplies for its services, in response to its petition. M-Ar :207, p. 319–321. ( M-Ar :207, p. 319–321).
64To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 23 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 23 December 1775 . Recommends for commissions several officers named in an enclosed letter from Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge. LS signed by William Sever, DLC:GW . Woodbridge’s undated letter to the council requests commissions for four officers whose names were omitted from the council’s letter of 24 Oct. to GW ( DLC:GW ).
65To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 13 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 13 December 1775 . Corrects several mistakes made in its letter to GW of 31 Oct. recommending officers in Col. Ephraim Doolittle’s regiment for commissions. LS signed by William Sever, DLC:GW ; LB (photocopy), DNA : RG 93, Photocopies of State Records.
66To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 16 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Council received your favour of this day by the Officer of the Guard, and thank your Excellency for your care, and as the Prisoners sent hither, are all disposed of, there will be no occasion for any guard until others are sent in; We have therefore returned the Guard and the Committee of Council, who are appointed to hear and examine &c. Prisoners in the recess of Court (a Copy of whose...
67To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 13 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Their is a number of men at this place who were taken in attempting to supply our Enemies with Provissions—the Council think they ought to be Confined—they therefore request that your Excellency would send to this Town a Guard of about Twenty men to be under the direction of the Board in order to convey the Said Persons, and the Prisoners which may be taken from time to time, to such place or...
68The Council to the Massachusetts Delegates, 11 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
The Manifest Militation between the Resolve which passed the hon’ble the American Congress on the ninth June last relative to Establishing Civil Government in this Colony and the Resolve which passed the Congress on 18th of last July pointing to a method how the Militia should be regulated in the Several United American Colony’s hath caused some Altercation between the Hon’ble House of...
69To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 8 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 8 November 1775 . Recommends officers in Col. James Frye’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., PHi : Gratz Collection.
70To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 4 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 4 November 1775 . Recommends captains David Parsons, Thomas Farrington, and Simon Stevens “as Candidates to fill. . . Vacancies in the Army.” LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., DLC:GW . These three men had each commanded a company during the French and Indian War. Thomas Farrington became a captain in the 16th Continental Infantry on 1 Jan. 1776 and lieutenant colonel of the...
71To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 1 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 1 November 1775. Recommends staff officers in the regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Israel Hutchinson for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., DLC:GW . Israel Hutchinson (1728–1811) was lieutenant colonel of the Massachusetts regiment formerly commanded by Col. John Mansfield. Hutchinson became colonel of the 27th Continental Infantry on 1 Jan. 1776 and resigned at the...
72To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 1 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 1 November 1775 . Recommends officers in the regiment commanded by Lt. Col. William Bond for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., DLC:GW . William Bond (d. 1776) was lieutenant colonel of the Massachusetts regiment formerly commanded by Col. Thomas Gardner. Bond served as colonel of the 25th Continental Infantry from 1 Jan. 1776 until his death the following August....
73To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 1 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 1 November 1775 . Recommends officers in Col. William Prescott’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., DLC:GW .
74To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 31 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 31 October 1775 . Recommends officers in Col. Ephraim Doolittle’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., DLC:GW . The council made corrections to these recommendations in its letter to GW of 13 December .
75To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 31 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 31 October 1775 . Recommends officers in the regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin for commissions. L , DLC:GW .
76To John Adams from Perez Morton, 28 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
I am directed by the Major part of the Council of this Colony, to acquaint You, that by Virtue of the power and Authority in and by the Royal Charter in the abscence of the Governor and Lieutt. Governor lodged in them, they have seen fit to appoint You, with the Advice and consent of Council, to be first or Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature &c. for this Colony. The inclosed is...
77Enclosure: List of Superior Court Justices, 28 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
Honble. John Adams Esqr. William Cushing Esqr. William Read Esqr. Honble. Rob. Treat Paine Esqr. Nathl. P. Sargent Esqr. RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “To The Honble. John Adams Esq at Philadelphia”; docketed: “Dpty Secys. Letter. Octr. 28. 1775.” For Paine’s placement in the ranking and its consequences, see James Warren to JA , 20 Oct. and notes (above).
78To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 26 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 26 October 1775 . Recommends officers in Col. Ebenezer Bridge’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., PHi : Gratz Collection. Sprague transcript , DLC:GW .
79To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 24 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
[Watertown, Mass.] 24 October 1775 . Recommends officers in Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., DLC:GW .
80To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 9 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 9 October 1775 . Recommends staff officers in Col. Timothy Danielson’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by James Otis, Sr., DLC:GW .
81To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 7 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 7 October 1775. . Recommends that John Rice be commissioned “as youngest Lieutenant in Captain Saml Gridleys Company” in the regiment of artillery. LS , signed by William Sever, DLC:GW .
82To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 6 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 6 October 1775. . Recommends officers in Col. Edmund Phinney’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by William Sever, DLC:GW .
83To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 3 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 3 October 1775 . Recommends officers for Col. Paul Dudley Sargent’s regiment. “The Council would further Suggest to your Excellency, that four Companies were raised, by order of this Colony, soon after the 19th of April last. Two of them in Braintree, One in Weymouth, one in Hingham, Towns within the port of Boston, in Consequence of a determination that certain ports within...
84To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 27 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 27 September 1775 . Recommends officers in Col. Jonathan Brewer’s and Col. David Brewer’s regiments for commissions. LS , signed by William Sever, DLC:GW .
85Report of Council Committee Regarding Governor Hutchinson’s Letters, 19 August 1775 (Adams Papers)
THE COMMITTEE [to consider what is proper to be done with the Letters of the late Govr Hutchinson and how they shall be preserv’d] Report, that it is of Great Importance that the Letters and other Papers of the late Governor Hutchinson, be carefully preserved, as they Contain Documents for History of great Moment: and that Evidence, in the hand writing of a Man whose nefarious Intrigues and...