Date: May 10, 1775 Posted from Cambridge [MA] to my “dear friend, Miss Mercy Scollay [at Worcester] [I] am happy in hearing you with the Family are all in Health. Dr. Dix wanted to be informed respecting the sowing some wheat, let the Dr. know I shall acquiesce in his Judgment. I think it will […]
by Warren 1775
Date: April 10, 1775 “[to Dr. Dix] Boston [Monday] April 10, 1775 Sir my Goods are many of them out of Town. I must pray you to hire a Couple of Waggons for me and direct them to go to the House of Mrs Mary Warren in Roxbury for as many of my Goods as […]
Date: February 25, 1775 To Dr. Elijah Dix [of Worcester] “Boston, 25 Feby. 1775 I must request you to have the House ready to receive some of my Goods in three or four Days, if they should arrive before any of my Family I must beg you would take the care of them, as the […]
Date: March 6, 1775 ”The tools of power, in every age, have racked their inventions to justify the few in sporting with the happiness of the many; and, having found their sophistry too weak to hold mankind in bondage, have impiously dared to force religion, the daughter of the king of heaven, to become a […]
Date: March 6, 1775 “[P]rinces, honoured with the name of Christian, might bid defiance to the founder of their faith, might pillage Pagan countries and deluge them with blood, only because they boasted themselves to be the disciples of that teacher who strictly charged his followers to do to others as they would that others […]
Date: May 17, 1775 ”Thus a War has begun, which I have frequently said to you and others, would if not timely prevented, overturn the British Empire, but I hope after a full conviction both of our Ability and resolution to Maintain our rights, Britain will act with that Wisdom which it is so absolutely […]
Date: May 26, 1775 “I see more and more the necessity of establishing a civil government here, and such a government as shall be sufficient to control the military forces, not only of this colony, but also such as shall be sent to us from the other colonies. The continent must strengthen and support with […]
