The ships and sailors of old Salem; the record of a brilliant era of American achievement . assed a resolutibtiprotesting against its removal from Boston, and acted upon noother political measures for ten days when the House adopteda resolution appointing as delegates to the Congress at Phila-delphia, James Bowdoin, Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams,John Adams, and Treat Paine to consult upon meias-ures for the restoration of harmony between Great Britain andthe Colonies. This action angered General Gagie, and he atonce prepared a proclamation dissolving the General secretary post
The ships and sailors of old Salem; the record of a brilliant era of American achievement . assed a resolutibtiprotesting against its removal from Boston, and acted upon noother political measures for ten days when the House adopteda resolution appointing as delegates to the Congress at Phila-delphia, James Bowdoin, Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams,John Adams, and Treat Paine to consult upon meias-ures for the restoration of harmony between Great Britain andthe Colonies. This action angered General Gagie, and he atonce prepared a proclamation dissolving the General secretary posted off to the Salem town house to deliversaid proclamation, but he was refused admittance, woird beingbrought out to him that the orders were to keep the door the defeated secretary read the document to thecurious crowd outside and afterwards in the empty councilchamber. So ended the last Provincial Assembly of Massa-chusetts under a British Governor. Having moved his headquarters to Saliem, General Gage letit be known that he regarded the odious Boston Port Bill as a 178. Richard Derby Richard Derby and his Son John measure which must be maintained by military law and anarmy of twenty thousand men if needs be. He also suppressedthe town meetings, appointed new councillors, and heaped upother grievances with such wholesale energy that Salem flew upin arms and defied him. A town meeting had been called forAugust 24th to choose delegates to a county convention, and thepeople of the town refused to harken unto the order prohibitingtheir most jealously guarded institution of local government, thetown meeting. Gage hurried back from Boston, took commandof his troops, and ordered the Fifty-ninth Regiment of foot tomake ready for active service. It is recorded that he showedIndecent passion, denounced the meeting as treasonable andspoke with much vehemence of voice and gesture, threatened thecommittee of the town whom he met at the house of ColonelBrown, and ordered up
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