. The New England magazine . e-fence of their rights and liberties. InSeptember, 1774, a convention of dele-gates from nine towns in CumberlandCounty met at Falmouth, where fivehundred armed men from eastern townswere also gathered, compelled the countysheriff appointed by General Gage, thelast royal governor, to give a pledge thathe would obey the province law and not that of Parliament, and recommendedthat the representatives elected from theseveral towns of Massachusetts and Mainemeet and form a Provincial Congress totake the place of the Cieneral Court dis-solved by General (lage. The Prov
. The New England magazine . e-fence of their rights and liberties. InSeptember, 1774, a convention of dele-gates from nine towns in CumberlandCounty met at Falmouth, where fivehundred armed men from eastern townswere also gathered, compelled the countysheriff appointed by General Gage, thelast royal governor, to give a pledge thathe would obey the province law and not that of Parliament, and recommendedthat the representatives elected from theseveral towns of Massachusetts and Mainemeet and form a Provincial Congress totake the place of the Cieneral Court dis-solved by General (lage. The ProvincialCongress met at Salem in October, 1774,and elected delegates to the ContinentalCongress. The second Provincial Con-gress met February i, 1775, ^^^^ ^I^Y 5passed a resolution that ended Britishgovernment in Massachusetts and Maine,and set up a new state government underthe colonial charter, which was formallyinaugurated July 19, and continued tillthe adoption of a state constitution inOctober, 1780, with John Hancock as. A Group of Guides. 556 THE STATE OF MAhXE.
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