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17 Aug.
AUGUST 1775
New England Chronicle, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1775
Cambridge, August 17.
Last Monday morning [August 141 came to town from Ipswich, 20 of the
Prisoners taken at Cape-Ann the Tuesday before.'
1. The men from H.M.S. Falcon, captured in that ship's boats in Gloucester harbor.
JOURNAL OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[Watertown] Thursday, August 17, 1775 Afternoon
John Taylor, Esq. brought down the Report of the Committee on the
Memorial of the Officers of the Eastern Regiment of Militia in the County of
Lincoln, viz :
The Committee appointed to take into consideration the Memorial of the
officers of the Eastern Regiment of Militia in the County of Lincoln, beg leave to
report, that the conduct of said Regiment of Militia in destroying Fort Pownall,
and taking a number of vessels mentioned in said Memorial, is highly approved;
that the Sloops mentioned as taken in said Memorial, together with their rigging
and sails, be secured in some place or places of safety by the Selectmen and Committees
of Correspondence of each Town in the County of Lincoln where these
vessels now are, until the further order of this Court; that the Schooner taken
as mentioned in said Memorial, be and remain in the care of the petitioners, to be
by them employed in defence of the sea-coasts of those eastern parts, and the
annoyance of our enemies, in the most prudent and effectual manner, until the
further order of this Court; that the Boat or Barge mentioned in said Memorial
be under the care of Colonel James Cargill, to be by him used and employed in
the Colony service, until the further order of this Court; that Messrs. Phillips and
Cruger be discharged, evidence appearing, from several persons of credit now out
of Boston, that they have acted a friendly part, in several instances, to the great
cause of liberty, and nothing appearing against them but only the Admiral's pass,
without which, it is supposed, they could not get out of Boston with their vessels;
and that Jonathan Carleton, mentioned also in said Memorial, and any others
in the hands of our friends in said County of Lincoln, be discharged, if the Selectmen
and Committees of Correspondence in those parts may judge it fit and proper,
and consistent with the publick safety, otherwise to be kept in custody till further
orders.
Joseph Palmer, Chairman
Samuel Adams, Secretary
[Endorsed] In Council, August 15, 1775: Read and sent down. In the House of
Representatives, August 18, 1775. Read and concurred.
1. Force, comp., American Archives, 4th, 111, 334-336, from Mass. Arch., vol. 206, 234.