Diary and Autobiography of John Adams | Volume 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776 | Documents | [Autobiography of John Adams, Part One: To October 1776] |
[Braintree Lawyer, 1759–1761]
Resolution to pay post-riders, 26 December 1775Resolution appointing members to a joint committee to determine how bills of credit were to be signed and numbered, 26 December 1775Resolution to pay John Davis a sum in behalf of Edward Johnson, a petitioning soldier, 26 December 1775Resolution to approve committee report recommending payment to the Committee of Supplies for its services, in response to its petition, 26 December 1775Resolution to approve appointment of a committee to assist the commissary general in procuring military supplies, 27 December 1775Resolution to liberate Henry Middleton and George Price, prisoners in the Plymouth jail, 28 December 1775Resolution ordering committee for purchasing saltpeter to deliver it to Richard Devens, 28 December 1775Recommendation to towns to promote the manufacture of saltpeter, 28 December 1775Resolution to approve payment to Committee for the Poor of Boston to assist those at Shirley Point, 28 December 1775Resolution ordering the Milton committee to deliver Thomas Hutchinson’s furniture to Mrs. Deborah Cushing, 29 December 1775Resolution concerning payment of military companies at Braintree, Weymouth, and Hingham, 30 December 1775Resolution approving a new levy of men for the seacoast forces, 30 December 1775Resolution to have copies made of military rolls for use of the treasurer, 3 January 1776Approval of mittimus of Moses Wayman and Samuel Webb to Plymouth jail, 3 January 1776Message to House concerning the guarding of Hull and other towns, 4 January 1776Resolution to supply the Continental Army with 4,000 blankets, 5 January 1776Resolution concerning mittimus of sixteen named men to Worcester jail, 5 January 1776Order to Plymouth jail to release James Middleton, 6 January 1776Resolution directing the Receiver General to pay £8,000 to the committee for fitting out vessels for importing powder, 6 January 1776Resolution ordering Frenchman’s Bay committee to deliver clothing to Neal Mclntyre or to Charles Chauncy in Mclntyre’s behalf, 10 January 1776Resolution to allow the accounts of the treasurer of Barnstable county, 15 January 1776Order to Worcester jail to release Thomas Mullin, 17 January 1776Order that blankets collected in Hampshire and Berkshire counties be retained there for use by troops going northward, 19 January 1776Resolution requesting accounts from towns of powder, lead, and flints supplied to the Continental Army, 19 January 1776Resolution ordering commissioners designated to erect a powder mill to do so at Stoughton, 19 January 1776Resolution for raising 728 officers and men in Hampshire and Berkshire counties to go to Canada, 19 January 1776Resolution to approve choice of field officers for regiment going to Canada, 19 January 1776Resolution approving appointment of a committee to call in misprinted bills of credit, 24 January 1776Resolution approving an order that bills of credit be delivered to the committee appointed to sign them and that it in turn deliver them to the treasurer, 24 January 1776 