A history of the American people . their vigi-lance and activity in that fervice. v Whereas the Overfeers cf the poor in the town of Bo/lon are a body politic, by law conftituted for the and diAribution of all charitable donations forthe ufe of the poor of iajd. town, t VdTEO, That all gt-»n\ and donations to this town -and the pooi -ihefeVHitVhis Hinreffirtg Ye^afon, be paidand delivered iqto the hands of faid Overfeers, and bythem appropriated and distributed in concert with the 5qrq^rn>tte<_late lyapWn ted by this town for the oF \v*ys\md means of employing the
A history of the American people . their vigi-lance and activity in that fervice. v Whereas the Overfeers cf the poor in the town of Bo/lon are a body politic, by law conftituted for the and diAribution of all charitable donations forthe ufe of the poor of iajd. town, t VdTEO, That all gt-»n\ and donations to this town -and the pooi -ihefeVHitVhis Hinreffirtg Ye^afon, be paidand delivered iqto the hands of faid Overfeers, and bythem appropriated and distributed in concert with the 5qrq^rn>tte<_late lyapWn ted by this town for the oF \v*ys\md means of employing the poor, the townclerk be directed to publifli theproceedings of this meeting in the Several news papers. The meeting was then adjourned to Monday the a;thof Juue, mftaux. s ? Atteft, WILLIAM COOPER, Town Clerk. i-iifi SE^W YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY THE APPROACH OF REVOLUTION ful author of the famous Farmers Letters of 1768,a quiet master of statement, and Mr. Thomas Mifflin,the well-to-do merchant, represented SI e/v syA^*^ z^rh&srt ROGER SHERMAN It was, take it all in all, an assembly of picked men,fit for critical business. Not that there was any talk of actual revolution inthe air. The seven weeks conference of the Congressdisclosed a nice balance of parties, its members act-195 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ing, for the most part, with admirable candor and in-dividual independence. A good deal was said andconjectured about the brace of Adamses who ledthe Massachusetts delegation, — Samuel Adams, nowpast fifty-two, and settled long ago, with subtle art,to his life-long business, and pleasure, of popular leader-ship, which no man understood better; and John Adams,his cousin, a younger man by thirteen years, at onceless simple and easier to read, vain and transparent,—transparently honest, irregularly gifted. It wassaid they were for independence, and meant to takethe leadership of the Congress into their own it turned out differently. If t
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