Raynors HCA 2015-05
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Newspaper, a complete and authentic issue of The Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement, January 19, 1775, 32pp., disbound. From an interior page, Massachusetts Provincial Congress closes, with John Hancock printed signature. In part, “In as much as many states have been taught by fatal experience, that powers delegated by the people for long periods have been abused to the endangering the public rights and liberties, and this Congress having just reason to suppose that their constituents, the good people of this province, when they appointed their present delegates, were not apprehensive that the business necessary to be done would require their attendance for any long time, Resolved, That the adjournment of this Congress on the twenty- ninth day of October last, was ordered ... Resolved, that after the business necessary to be immediately despatched shall be finished, the Congress be dissolved. And this Congress being deeply impressed with a sense of the increasing dangers which threaten the rights and liberties of the people of this province with total ruin ; our adversaries being still indefatigable in their attempts to carry into execution their deep laid plans for that wicked purpose ... Resolved, That it be, ... they each of them elect ... to represent them in a Provincial Congress,... John Hancock.” Then, a letter from Thomas Gage to Peyton Randolf (Continental Congress), October 20, 1774, in part “People would be led to believe, from your letter to me of the 10th instant, that works were raised against the town of Boston, private property invaded ...There is not a single gun pointed against the town, no man's property has been seized ... Two works of earth have been raised, at some distance from the town, wide off the road, and guns put in them. ... The remainder of old works, going out of the town, have been strengthened, and guns placed there likewise. People will think differently, whether the hostile preparation throughout the country, and the menaces of blood and slaughter, made this necessary , but I am to do my duty. ...
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