“Philadelphia, 17th Sept. 1774. SIR, Your Letter of the 11th Instant, directed “To the Honorable Thomas Cushing, Esq; and the other Gentlemen of the Congress, Members for Massachusetts-Bay,” together with the Resolutions entered into by the Delegates of the several Towns in the County of Suffolk, and their Address to his Excellency Governor Gage were […]
First Continental Congress
Date: September 26, 1774 “Messieurs Printers As I have been informed that the conduct of some few persons of the Episcopal denomination, in maintaining principles inconsistent with the rights and liberties of mankind, has given offence to some of the zealous friends of this country, I think myself obliged to publish the following extract of […]
[Joseph Warren in Boston to Samuel Adams at Philadelphia] Date: September 29, 1774 Dear Sir, – My last letter of the 26th instant you will doubtless have received by the post before this reached you. Since then, there have been arrivals from England, by which we learn that the ministry are still inflexible and obstinate. […]
Date: September 9, 1774 “At a meeting of the delegates of every town and district in the county of Suffolk, on Tuesday, the 6th of September, at the house of Mr. Richard Woodward, of Dedham, and, by adjournment, at the house of Mr. Daniel Vose, of Milton, on Friday, the 9th instant, Joseph Palmer, Esq., […]
