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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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From Eunice Paine

20 March 1775

From David Cobb

4 April 1775
38
Extract from the Minutes of the Provincial Congress
Provincial Congress
Thursday, March 23, 1775, A.M.

Ordered, That Mr. Gerry, Mr. Paine and Mr. Adams, be a committee to bring in a resolve, expressing the sense of this Congress, that for this people to relax in their preparations to defend themselves, &c., would be attended with the most dangerous consequences.1

Printed in the Journals of Each Provincial Congress , 109–110.

1.

The committee reported the next afternoon. Its report appears in Journals of Each Provincial Congress , 110, and in various newspapers. The report warned the population that “our implacable enemies are unremitting in their endeavors, by fraud and artifice as well as by open force, to subjugate this people.” Therefore citizens should “be ready to oppose, with firmness and resolution, at the utmost hazard, every attempt for that purpose.”