Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . on October 11, 1774, two hundred andsixty members, representing over two hundredtowns, took their seats and elected John Han-cock president and Benjamin Lincoln Gage they promptly sent a message remon-strating against his hostile attitude. That per-sonage responded by thundering recriminationsat them. Shortly afterward, he issued a procla-mation denouncing the Congress as an un-lawful assembly whose proceeding tended toensnare the inhabitants of the Province anddraw them into perju
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . on October 11, 1774, two hundred andsixty members, representing over two hundredtowns, took their seats and elected John Han-cock president and Benjamin Lincoln Gage they promptly sent a message remon-strating against his hostile attitude. That per-sonage responded by thundering recriminationsat them. Shortly afterward, he issued a procla-mation denouncing the Congress as an un-lawful assembly whose proceeding tended toensnare the inhabitants of the Province anddraw them into perjuries, riots, sedition, trea-son and rebellion. Then the Congress adjourned to Cambridge,and appointed a committee of public safety,of which Hancock, Warren and Church werethe Boston members. Even now, tliough, therewas no intention to attack the British troops,only to make preparations for self-defenceshould that become necessary. In the Massa-chusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News Letterof February 23, 1775, is published a resolutionpassed at the Provincial Congress in Cambridge.
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