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1774.] REVOLUTION—PRELIMINARY EVENTS. 353<br />

eral <strong>of</strong> the county conventions suggested that the Congress<br />

should assemble at Concord on the second Tuesday <strong>in</strong> Octo-<br />

ber, and the delegates,- assembled at Salem, adjourned to<br />

meet at that place on the 11"* <strong>of</strong> the month. Evidently<br />

Mr. Hawley was present at the open<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the session at<br />

Concord, and rema<strong>in</strong>ed there and at Cambridge, one day<br />

over three weeks dur<strong>in</strong>g the first session. He started for<br />

the second session, November 14"", about n<strong>in</strong>e days before<br />

it commenced, and charged for two weeks and five days<br />

board at Cambridge. He went on horseback, and the town<br />

paid for keep<strong>in</strong>g the animal. His total charge for both<br />

sessions was £7.6.3. Col. Pomeroy set out for Concord,<br />

Monday, October 10"', and reached that place at 9 o'clock,<br />

A. M. on the third day. On Friday he went to Boston as<br />

a member <strong>of</strong> a committee to wait on Gov. Gage, and then<br />

went to Cambridge. The follow<strong>in</strong>g Thursday, October 21^**,<br />

at night, he started for home. On Monday, November 2V^,<br />

he left town aga<strong>in</strong> for the second session at Cambridge, and<br />

rema<strong>in</strong>ed till December 13*^. For both sessions he received<br />

<strong>from</strong> the town £8.5.2.<br />

The Town makes no<br />

An article was <strong>in</strong>serted <strong>in</strong> the warrant for<br />

Response to the Action<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Prov<strong>in</strong>ciai<br />

Congress.<br />

^ towu-meetiug iu NovembcT, "To con-<br />

. • Ol n J<br />

sider & act as thej^ bhall ]udge proper<br />

upon the recommendations conta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong><br />

two Several resolutions made & passed <strong>in</strong> & by the late<br />

Congress <strong>of</strong> Delegates <strong>from</strong> the several Towns & Districts<br />

<strong>in</strong> this prov<strong>in</strong>ce respect<strong>in</strong>g Prov<strong>in</strong>ce Taxes, that is to saj^ one<br />

resolution made Oct. 14, 1774, at Concord, & another made<br />

on the 28*" <strong>of</strong> the same month at Cambridge." No vote<br />

was taken upon this article. Apparently it was not con-<br />

sidered, but was suffered quietly to subside.<br />

Committee <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>spec- On the 27"" <strong>of</strong> December a Committee <strong>of</strong><br />

tion Appo<strong>in</strong>ted. Inspection, consist<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g<br />

persons, was appo<strong>in</strong>ted: — Elias Lj^man,<br />

Jonathan Clapp, Ebenezer Strong, Jonathan Janes, Asahel<br />

Clapp, Ezra Clark, Joseph Lyman, Jacob Parsons, Aaron<br />

Wright, Oliver Lyman, Elihu Clark, Quartus Pomeroy,<br />

Ephraim Wright, Jonathan Allen, Simeon Parsons, Mart<strong>in</strong><br />

Clark, Solomon Allen.

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