[Mass.]
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 17th, 1775.
WHEREAS some of the Inhabitants of the New Plantations in this Colony, not incorporated and some of the inhabitants of the neighbouring Colonies, together with a Number of the late Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, have inlisted into the Army, now raising in this Colony, to whom the Resolve of Congress, dated May the 9th, 1775, impowering the Select-Men to supply the Inhabitants of their respective Towns with Arms, &c. did not extend, and by that Means many of such Men are not provided with sufficient Arms: Therefore,
RESOLVED, That the Inhabitants of the several Towns and Districts in the Counties specified in a List hereunto annexed, who may have good and sufficient Firelocks, be and hereby are most earnestly advised, as soon as possible, to provide and deliver to such Person or Persons, as are to be now appointed by this Congress, to receive the same, the full Number of good effective Firelocks, specified in the said List for each Town and District to supply; for which Firelocks every Owner thereof shall receive such Sum in the Bills of Credit of this Colony, as the Person or Persons now to be appointed by this Congress to receive such Firelocks, and the Owner thereof, shall agree to be the Value of the same, within forty Days after the Delivery of such Firelocks; for all which Firelocks delivered as aforesaid, the Person to be appointed by this Congress to receive the same, shall give his Receipt therefor in the Form following:
THE..........Day of..........1775. Received of A. B...........Firelock to the Use of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, of the Value of..........which Sum the Receiver-General of the said Colony is directed in forty Days after the Date hereof, to pay to the said A. B. or Order, in Bills of Credit of this Colony.
And the said Receiver-General, upon such Receipt being produced to him, is impowered and required to pay out of the Treasury of this Colony the Sum specified in such Receipt, in the Bills of Credit aforesaid, to the Person named therein, or his Order. And furthermore, the Selectmen and Committees of Correspondence of the several Towns and Districts aforesaid, are hereby most earnestly requested to afford all possible Aid and Assistance to the Persons to be appointed by this Congress, to procure the said Firelocks, that so the said Arms may be supplied to our Army with the greatest Expedition. And the Persons to be appointed to procure said Firelocks, are hereby severally impowered and directed to employ such Waggoners and Teamsters, as shall be necessary, with great Dispatch, to convey, the same to the Army, and to order the Receiver-General of this Colony, to pay out of the Treasury of the same in Bills of Credit as aforesaid, such Sums as they shall agree on, and draw for; and the said Receiver-General is hereby authorized and directed to pay the Orders so drawn.
And it is further RESOLVED, That Capt. William Page, Capt. Abiel Saddler, Mr. Daniel Hemmenway, Major Benjamin, Ely, Major John Bliss Capt. Lemuel Kellock, Col. Simeon Spaulding, Capt. Josiah Stone, Major Ebenezer White, and Col. George Williams, be a Committee for the Purpose of procuring the Firelocks-agreeable to the above Resolve, viz.
Capt. William Page, Capt. Abiel Saddler, and Mr. Daniel Hemmenway, for the County of Worcester; Major Benjamin Ely, and Major John Bliss, for the County of Hampshire; Capt. Lemuel Kellock, for the County of Suffolk; Col. Simeon Spaulding and Capt. Josiah Stone, for the County of Middlesex; Major Ebenezer White, for the County of Plymouth; Col. George Williams, for the County of Bristol.
County of Worcester.
Worcester..........30
Lancaster..........32
Mendon..........24
Brookfield..........31
Oxford..........11
Charlton..........11
Sutton..........31
Leicester..........12
Spencer..........10
Paxton..........6
Rutland..........15
Oakham..........6
Hubbardston..........2
New Braintree..........10
Southborough..........12
Westborough..........12
Northborough..........8
Shrewsbury..........22
Lunenburgh..........16
Fitchburg..........6
Uxbridge..........11
Northbridge..........5
Harvard..........16
Dudley..........10
Hutchinson..........13
Boston..........15
Upton..........6
Sturbridge..........12
Leominster..........12
Hardwick..........17
Western..........11
Holden..........8
Douglas..........7
Graston..........12
Petersham..........12
Royalston..........2
Westminster..........10
Athol..........6
Templeton..........8
Princeton..........8
Ashburnham..........3
Winshendon..........3
..........514
County of Hampshire.
Springfield..........26
West Springfield..........25
Willbraham..........11
Northampton..........25
Southampton..........10
Hadley..........11
South Hadley..........9
Amherst..........12
Granby..........7
Hatfield..........14
Westfield..........19
Deerfield..........15
Greenfield..........10
Sunderland..........9
Montague..........8
Northfield..........10
Brimfield..........15
South-Brimfield..........10
Monson..........8
Pelbam..........14
Blandford..........9
Palmer..........11
Granville..........16
New Salem..........9
Warwick..........5
Ashfield..........8
Southwick..........8
..........334
County of Suffolk.
Wrentham..........25
Medway..........10
Billingham..........6
Wetpole..........4
Medfield..........4
..........49
County of Middlesex.
Marlborough..........20
Littleton,..........6
Hopkington,..........9
Westford..........6
Groton,..........7
Shirley,..........2
Pepperrell,..........4
Townshend..........4
Dracut..........5
Aston..........5
Dunstable..........5
Tewksbury..........4
Chelmsford..........7
Billerica..........7
Slew..........4
Framingham..........3
Wilmington..........4
..........102
County of Plymouth.
Bridgwater..........25
Middleborough..........16
..........41
County of Bristol.
Attleborough..........10
Rehoboth..........15
..........25
From the County of
Worcester..........514
Hampshire..........334
Suffolk..........49
Middlesex..........102
Plymouth..........41
Bristol..........25
Total..........1065
A true Copy from the Minutes,
Attest,..........Samuel Freeman, Secr'y.
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