Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment IV] “Thus we have endeavored to shew the Sense of the People of this Colony under both Charters; and if there have been in any late Instances a Submission to Acts of Parliament, it has been in our […]
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Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment III] “Your Excellency is disposed to compare this government to the variety of corporations formed within the kingdom, with power to make and execute by-laws, &c. And because they remain subject to the supreme authority of parliament, to […]
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment II] “We have brought the first American charters into view, and the state of the country when they were granted, to show that the right of disposing of the lands was in the opinion of those times vested […]
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. “BOSTON. In the House of Representatives, January 27, 1773. ORDERED, that Mr. Adams, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Bacon, Col. Bowers, Major Hawley, Capt. Darby, Mr. Philips, Col. Thayer and Col. Strockbridge, be a Committee to wait on his Excellency the Governor […]
Date: January 11, 1773 Author: Thomas Hutchinson Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, I have nothing special from His Majesty at this time, rather general instructions from me. That the Government is at present in a disturbed and disordered state is a truth too evident to be denied. For several […]
Date: January 11, 1773 Author: Thomas Hutchinson “BOSTON, January 11, 1773. Wednesday last [i.e. January 6th] the Great & general Court or Assembly of the Province met here, when his Excellency the Governor was pleased to make the following SPEECH to both Houses, viz. Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, […]
