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Nantasket Beach 7 3-4 miles from Boston; as early as 1647 this place was of considerable importance and gave men of sterling worth for public offices and employment ; on one of its hills is a well 90 feet deep which at times is nearly full of fresh water ; a good public house is kept by Mr. Warrick.
Marblehead 18 miles from Boston by water and 16 by land, north-east line ; Rail-Road House in the village kept by James O. Brown.
Cohasset Rocks south-east from Boston 15 miles from Long wharf by water and 23 by land : the Norfolk House kept by P. Bates is spoken well of, and in Cohasset Village the Con- mercial House by T. Morey bears a title to the confidence of the travelling community.
Sagamore Hill 11 1-4 miles from Long wharf on the south- east, on Nantasket Beach by water, and 22 miles by land, the Rockland House by N. Ripley, Jr. and the Beach House by L. Leavitt are in high repute.
George's Island 6 1-2 miles, south-east from Boston, has been ceeded to the United States Government and on which it has built one of the strongest and best constructed forts in the world: for 10 years the work has been progressing and is yet unfinished ; there is something uncommonly imposing and grand, possesses the beholder on viewing such a mass of human labor expended within the confined limits of such an Island.
Castle Island, Fort Independence, which for a series of years was appropriated for the confinement of burglars and convicts at nail making, and where the noted Stephen Bur- roughs exercised his ingenuity in making three nails per day and throwing the rest of the material into the well to deceive his keepers, that Island has on it, one of the best built forts on the continent : this Island has been celebrated in our annals from the earliest date of the settlement of Boston as bearing a part in most of its public concerns ; in protecting the town, and protecting the Crown officers from the town, the residence of convicts; and at last, a decided good position and place for the protection of our harbor and the flag which waves over it.
Hingham which is 12 miles by water and 14 by land from Boston, on a south-east-by-south line, is one of the finest wa- tering places near Boston : the Old Colony House by Mr. Bryant on the hill near the landing, is situated like the Na-
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hant Hotel, where there is but little shrubbery or trees, but at 3-4 of a mile west of that Hotel, are two houve- shaded with foliage from large oaks and elms, cool and comfortable, and where travellers and visitors are always refreshed with the comforts and hospitalities of the obliging landlord -. Mr. Isaac Little of the Union House, and J. M. Wilkins at the Wompatuck House. Hingham is a remarkably healthy place, combining an agreeable union of the sah air with that over the land, and the society there is safe ; and satisfaction is partaken of among the people, if that can be enjoyed any where.
Spectacle Island 3 & 5-8 miles distant from Long wh. in a somh-cast direction, a house for entertainment is kept by Mr. George Woodroffe, with the usual supplies for a good 11h house.
Little Hog Island, between Nantasket and Bumpkin Island, is set down at page 69 in part of our edition. at 3 7-8 miles from Long wharf, it should have been 8 2-8 miles.
Chelsea Beach 2 miles by land and about & miles by water: in the village is the Chelsea House, kept by Jonathan Bow- ditch and in North Chelsea, on the point of Pines, is the Rob- inson Crusoe House, kept by Tapley and Twombly, and the Neptune House is under the management of Messis. Bryant & Baneroft, about a mile south of the Robinson Cru- soe house.
DEER ISLAND : be it remembered that this year. 1817, the city authorities of the city of Boston built three large 100 story wooden buildings on this island for the accomodation of the Irish emigrants who landed here to the number of 10,046 from Jan. to July, many of them impoverished and sick: and administered to their wants in every necessary cir- eumstance and condition ; and how different was the fare for the first emigrants to the same place, in 1630; when they hardly had tents for their they covering in the open air, and their food was muscles and the wild growths of nature, to subsist on ; no orchards, and the water brackish and icul. and but little of that; and they became so sickly that there were hardly enough well to take care of the sick : but they were a sober, industrious people, and quickly hoed their own rows of potatoes and corn, and were grateful for every blessing from a kind providence; well may New England be proud of the sturdy and noble race from which they sprang : the donations from Boston for the purposes of Theo-
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logical education, for forty years, has been $1, 120,219.75 : for other purposes of instruction, $1.161.128.16: for Charita- ble purposes ; $2,272.990.51 ; and for miscellaneous object-, $438.321.39 :- total $4, 992, 659.81 ; these were public do- nations : the more under current of private contributions, have been estimated to have been as much more-or in all, not much short of $10,000.000, generously parted with by its owners for the benefit of others and the satisfaction of doing a public or private good ; and thus has Boston ever been so generous. that we may freely unite in sentiment with In- crease Mather " that for charity, he might indeed speak it 'without dattery, that this town hath not many equals on the 'face of the earth."
In Scituate harbor. about 18 miles by water and 23 by land, on a south-east line from Boston, is a public house kept by Thomas Jefferson Curtis, and another the Cyclades, by Mr. Hayden. on the north east pait.
Weymouth by land 11 miles from Boston, on a south-east by-sonth-line; a honse there di-penses bodily comforts un- der the care of Mr. A. B. Wales.
Hull, near Point Alderton, is about 8 miles by water and near 27 miles by land from Boston on a south-east-by-cast di- rection ; a public house is there kept by Mr. Moses B. Tower.
SOCIETINS. AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION Daniel Sharp. D. D. President. Rev. Rollin MI. Neale, Recording Secretary. Rooms, 17 Joy's building.
AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.
Lewis Strong, President. John Tappan, (with 32 honorary Vice Presidents in different Stat .s.) Vice President. Office No. 15 Corahil !.
AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. Rev. Charles Briggs, General Secretary. S. K. Lothrop, Assistant Secretary. Depository 111 Washington Street. AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMIS. POR FOR ERZY MISSIONS Henry Hill, Treasurer, Missionary house 33 Pemberton sq. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, BOSTON John Tappan, President. Rev. Seth Bliss, Secretary and General Agent. Geo. Denny, Ticas. Depos. 28 Cornhill. BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF CHURCHES.
Henry B. Rogers, President. Thomas Tabell, Treasurer. Rev. R. C. Wateiston, Secretary. Rev. S. K. Lodnop, Benj. Seaver, Executive Committee.
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BOSTON ACADEMY OF MUSIC. See page 297.
Samuel A. Eliot, President. Luther S. Cushing, Record- ing Secretary. George E. Head, Corresponding Secretary. Benjamin Perkins, Treasurer. Benj. F. Fdmands, Librarian.
BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, DIOCESE OF MASS.
The Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. Rev. Charles Mason, Henry W. Lee, C. M. Butler, N. T. Beut, Joseph H. Clinch, A. L. Baury, Geo. M. Randall, of the clergy, Win. Appleton, James Barnes, and Amos A. Lawrence, Esq. of the laity.
BOSTON ASYLUM AND FARM SCHOOL FOR INDIGENT BOYS.
Theodore Lyman, President; Moses Grant. Vice Presi- dent; George H. Kuhn, Secretary; J. I. Bowditch, Treasu- rer ; Moses Grant, B. A. Gould, Rev. R. C. Waterston, Com- mittee on admission. See page 173.
BOSTON ATHENEUM. Instituted 1804 ; incorporated 1807. See page 195.
BOSTON BENEFIT SOCIETY.
D. Humphreys Storer, M.D., President. Robert B. Lin- coln, Vice President.
BOSTON CHILDRENS' FRIEND SOCIETY.
Mrs. Thomas Baldwin, President ; Mrs. Thomas P. Cush- ing, Secretary ; Mrs. Lewis Lerow, Treasurer,
BOSTON FATHERLESS AND WIDOWS' SOCIETY. Mrs. James F. Baldwin, President.
BOSTON FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM. See page 233. Mrs. William Prescott, First Directress.
BOSTON LYCEUM. Josiah Quincy, jr. President. Charles Worthington, Re- cording Secretary.
BOSTON MARINE SOCIETY.
Robert B. Forbes, President ; Richard Soule, Vice Pres- ident ; Robert B. Edes ; Secretary ; Thomas Lamb, Treasurer. ; Isaiah M. Atkins, J. G. Dickinson, Jairus B. Lincoln, Willis Howes, John Doak, Committee of Relief; J. G. Dickinson, Isaiah M. Atkins, Robert B. Edes, Port Wardens.
BOSTON MEDICAL DISPENSARY. See page 229.
APOTHECARIES. Chas. K. Whipple, 109 Washington st., up stairs ; Charles Mead, corner Turnpike and Fourth sts. ; James Kidder, Maverick square, East Boston.
BOSTON PORT SOCIETY. See page 231.
Albert Fearing, President; J. A. Andrew, Secretary ; Charles Henry Parker, Treasurer.
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BOSTON SEAMEN'S AND SOCIETY. See page 231 Mrs. Albert Fearing, President ; Mrs. Otis Everett, Sec- retary; Miss Anu E. Coffin, Treasurer.
BOSTON SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY. See page 230. Henry Edwards, President ; F. A. Benson, Secretary ; Thomas D. Quiney, Treasurer.
BOSTON SOCIETY FOR AIDING DISCHARGED CONVICTS. Walter Channing, President ; Louis Dwight Vice Pres.
BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. See page 200
Amos Binney, President; Thomas Bulfinch, Recording Secretary ; Patrick T. Jackson, jr. Treasurer ; Chailes K. Dillaway, Librarian. Room Savings Bank building, Tre- mont street.
BOWDITCH LIBRARY. No. 8 Otis Place. See page 199. CHILDREN'S INFIRMARY. No. 716 Washington street. Patients received between the ages of two and fifteen. J. Jackson, M. D. J. Ware, M. D. Consulting Physicians ; Win. R. Lawrence, M. D. Physician.
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY. See page 301. HOWARD BENEVOLENT SOCIETY See page til Moses Grant, President ; Artemas Simmonds, Secretary ; Thomas Tarbell, Treasurer.
HTMLANE SOCIETY OF MASS. See page 202. Instituted 1786. Incorporated 1791. MASS. ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY.
Francis Jackson, President ; Edmund Quincy, Secretary ; Robert F. Wallent, Recording Secretary. Office 21 Cornhill.
MASSACHUSETTS BIBLE SOCIETY. Incorporated 1:09. John Pierce, D. D. President ; John Codman, D. D. Vice President. Bible Depository 6 Liberty square.
MASS. CHARITABLE EYE AND BAAR INFIRMARY. Robert G. Shaw, President ; G. Howland Shaw, Secretary; J. W. Edmands, Treasurer ; Drs. Edward Reynolds, Robert W. Hooper, George A. Bethune, Surgeons. The Institution receives patients into the house. lummary corner of Green and Pitts streets.
MASS CHARITABLE FIRE SOCIETY. Instrued FAL Seep 22
Ebenezer T. Andrews, President; James Phillips, Vice President; A. W. Thayter, Treasurer ; S. F. MeCleary, Corresponding Sec'y ; James W. Burditt, Recording Fee's 6*
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MASS. CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION. See page 203.
George G. Smith, President; Win. Eaton, Vice Presi- dent ; Osmyn Brewster, Treasurer ; John Kuhn, Secretary. MASS. COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
Rev. Joseph Tracy of Boston, Secretary and Agent. Office Joy's building.
MASS. GENERAL HOSPITAL. See page 210.
Wm. Appleton, President ; Theodore Lyman, Vice Pres.
MASS, HISTORICAL SOCIETY. See page 191.
Hon. James Savage, President; Joseph Willard, Esq. Recording Secretary ; Rev. Charles Lowell, Corresponding Secretary ; Rev. J. B. Felt, Librarian. Rooms, Savings bank building, Tremont st.
MASS. HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Leonard Woods, D. D. President ; Rev. Joseph S. Clark, Secretary ; Benj. Perkins, Treasurer. Office 28 Cornhill.
MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. See page 293. M. P. Wilder, President ; B. V. French, Jonathan Win- ship, Cheever Newhall, E. M. Richards, Vice Presidents ; J. Teschemacher, Corresponding Secretary : Edward C. R. Walker. Recording Secretary ; Samuel Walker, Treasurer. Rooms School street.
MASS. SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY.
Samuel T. Armstrong, President ; Rev. Asa Bullard, Secretary ; C. C. Dean, Treasurer. Depository 13 Cornhill. MECHANIC APPRENTICES LIBRARY.
Thomas Hills, President ; Stephen R. Niles, Vice Presi- dent. See page 199.
MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
Thomas J. Allen, President ; Thomas H. Lord, Recording Secretary. See page 199.
SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF PAUPERISM.
Moses Grant, President. 3 Tremont Temple.
N. R. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.
Charles Ewer, President; Lemuel Shattuck, Vice Pres- ident ; Wm. H. Montagne, Treasurer ; Samuel H. Riddel, Recording Secretary ; Samuel G. Drake, Corresponding Secretary ; Edmund H. Dearborn, Librarian ; Rev. Win. Cogswell, D.D. editor of the Society's Periodical. Room 21 Conrt square. They publish a valuable quarterly periodical, $2.00 per year.
NORTHERN BAPTIST EDUCATION SOCIETY.
Baron Stow President; Richard Fletcher, Isaac Davis, Vice Presidents. Rooms 13 Joy's building.
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ODD FELLOWS LODGES.
Place and time of meeting of lodges and encampments in Boston. Office of the Grand Lodge, 21 School st.
Withrop Hall, 1 1-2 Tremont Row. Massachusetts, No. 1 Monday; Shawmut, No. 37. Tuesday ; Montezuma, No. 33, Wednesday ; Pacifick, No. 42, Thursday; Franklin, No. 23 Friday.
Covenant Hall, corner of Washington and Essex Streets. Covenant, No. 16 Monday ; Suffolk, No. 8, Tuesday; Orien- tal, No. 10, Wednesday; Siloam, No. 2, Thursday; Boston, No. 25, Friday; Union Degree, No. 1, Saturday.
Encampment Hall, 33 Washington St. Ancient Land- mark, No. 32, Monday; Unity, No. 77 Tues. ; Tremont, No. 15, Wed .; Massasoit Encampment, No. 1, 1st and 3d Friday.
Oasis Hall, Chapman Place. Trimount Encampment, No. 2, 1st and 3d Monday.
Harmony Hall, corner of Cross and Hanover Sts. Com- mercial Lodge, No. 97, Monday.
Brooks Hall, Broadway , S.B. Bethesda, No. 30, Monday; Hobah, No. 53 Friday; Mt. Washington Encampment, No. 6, 2d and 4th Thursdays.
East Boston. Maverick, No. 36, Monday; Maverick De- gree, No. 2, Friday.
RECHABITES. Name of Tents, and Places of Meeting.
Covenant, No. 1, Monday, c. West and Washington Sts. Philanthropic, No. 39, Wednesday, Crystal Fount Hall, Cross Street. Winthrop, 127, Tuesday, Crystal Fount Hall, Cross St. United Brothers, No. 58, Wednesday, Bay State Hall, c. Washington and Boylston Sts. Massasoit, No. 38, Friday; East Boston. Harmony, No. 78, Tuesday, S. Boston.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
The Grand Div. of Mass. meets at Union hall, 335 Wash- ington St. on the 3d Wed. of Oct., Jan., April and July.
J. Warren Appleton, Grand Scribe. Office at Bromfield hall, Bromfield st.
Washington, No. 1, Tuesday, 335 Washington St .- Boston, No. 3, Thursday, 335 Washington St .- Excelsior, No. 16, Wednesday, 335 Washington St .- Friendship, No. 19, Wed- nesday, South Boston. North Star, No. 23, Friday, Crystal Fonnt Hall, Cross St. Mount Horeb, No. 25, Wednesday, E. Boston. Old Bay State, No. 32, Tuesday, East Boston. Shakspeare, No. 46, Saturday, 335 Washington St.
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TEMPLES OF HONOR
Grand Temple. meet semi-annually, in May and Novem- ber. Trimount Temple, No. 1, every other Friday, at 335 Washington St. Washington Temple, No. 4, every other Monday evening, at Boylston hall, corner Washington St.
THE PERKINS INSTITUTION AND MASS. ASYLUM FOR BLIND.
Instituted 1831. Located at S. Boston ; office 152 Wash- ington St. Richard Fletcher, President; Edward Brooks, Vice President ; Thomas B. Wales, Jr. Treasurer ; Sainnel (. Howe, Director and Secretary. Terms of admission. ~ 160 per annum for board, washing, books, &c. For particulars, address S. G. Howe. Boston.
WASHINGTON TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.
Head quarters Bromfield Hall, Bromfield St. Win. R. Stacy, President; George B. Proctor, Secretary.
YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. James Tolman, President ; Henry Grew, Vice President.
SUFFOLK SAVINGS BANK FOR SEAMEN AND OTHERS. Per page 212.
Office Museum Building. Open daily, from 9 to 1 o'clock P.M. Deposits received and payments made daily.
Thomas Lamb, President. Henry Edwards, Vice Pres- ident. Charles HI. Parker, Secretary. Samuel H. Walley, jr. Treasurer.
SAMUEL ADAMS.
WITH AN ENGRAVED LIKENESS.
With the nuns of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, stands insepara- by that of Samu I Atuns; and they form together the brightest constellation which ilhommes the revolutionary annals of our country.
Sarunel Adams was one of the most remarkable men our country ever pro- duer : there was scaredly and one important event during the struggle for . the liberties of this country, but with which he was connected ; he was born in Boston Sept. 224, 1722: his father (see page 31) one of the originators of th . Charlton Church Green, was son of John Adams of Braintree ; and he was son of Joseph Adams of Braintree ; an t he was one of eight sons of Henry Adams who came to New England about the year 1630 : as no work to our knowledge denotes the relationship of the two great Adams' of 1776,
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it may be of some interest to state that the grand-fathers of John Adams the President, and Samuel Adams the Governor; were brothers.
No male posterity survives Samuel Adams ; his only son studied medicine with the renowned Warren, and served as a surgeon in the Army, and died without progeny (sine prole.) The father of Governor Adams, was a Repre- sentative from Boston to the general court for many years : also a Justice of the Peace and a Seleetman : he possessed considerable wealth, and was much respected and esteemed : the son, was prepared for entering Harvard University by Master Lovell at the Latin Grammar School, where he was an attentive scholar; and during his collegiate term he had but one fine, and that was for over sleeping a morning prayer : he entered College in 1730, and graduated in 1740 : on taking the degree of Master of Arts in 1743, he sup- ported the affirmative of the question : "whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Counnouwealth cannot be otherwise preserved :" and in this collegiate exercise, furnished direct evidence of his notions of lib- erty : ou leaving College, he commenced the study of Law, but with a mother's persuasions he relinquishel that, and entered the counting house of the pat- riotie Thomas Cushing; and in a little time entered into those pursuits for himself: but owing to some mis-management and the failure of a friend, to whom he hal entrusted more than one half of the property he had received from his father, he lost hus whole capital; trading pursuits never captured his uu livi le l'attention : polities was his delight and he formed a club, each member of which was to furnish an essay on political subjects, and they ob- tained the coguo nen of "the whipping-post-club : " at the age of 25, his father died, and being the eldest son, the care of the family and management of the estate devolved on him ; yet in all these concerns he was swayed by his main propensity for polities : he was strongly opposed to governor Shirley because he thought the naiou of the civil and military power concentrated in one m'in was dangerous to the liberties of the people :- In 1763, the British government commenced to tax the colonies ; Mr. Adams with four others were deputed by the people of Boston to draft instructions to the Representa- tives on public affairs; which were written by him and accepted by the peo- ple : the most material circumstance was then broached and for the first time, denying the right of the Crown to tax the colonies without their own consent : he said, " This annihilates our charter-rights; it strikes at our British privileges which we have never forfeited : if taxes are to be laid upon us in a ry shape, without our having a legal representative where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to that of tributary slaves : " in 1764, he belonged to a private political club where decisive measures originated which gave a secret spring and impulse to the public movements :- in 1765, he was elected a Representative from Boston to the General Court, and from that time throughout the revolutionary struggle he was one of the most uuwearied, efficient and disinterested supporters of American rights and National Independence : to him is the nation indebted
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for the idea of assembling the first Congress in New York, which but ten
and Bakery for the whole : to lino must be awarded the plan of the ne-am- portationsystem which he persuaded nearly all the merchants to sed and adhere to : scontato r ling a member of the house, he was elected Clerk with a small salary, but that way of some importance to himasa premmary mitter : the people found hint to be one of the ster liest of their supporters, and the Crown officers were convinced that he was one of their net inveter- ate opponents : when his character was lawn in England, a nato that he Was far from being in affluent circumstances, they resorted to their a ual method, where the clamorous become troublesome, to quiet them with some good fit office ; and this was adopted with Samme | Adun : but Governing Hutchinson answered an inquiring lever on the subject from Higland. sayaes, " such is the obstinicy an I ind . vible disposition of the man that he can never be conciliated by any office or sint whatever : " this account was received in Englan I with a In dricons kial of iner Julity, evidently occasione by a cou- fusion of i teas at the armady of such a disposition compared with the person- al and daily experience of all around them : in consequence of this, the alice of Clerk to the House was taken from him ; as he chose rather to subsist by individual or common beneficence, than be sacrifice the cause of liberty and the interests of the people :- in 1778, a large . looly of soldiers were quartered in Boston (see page 131.) which areused his indignation and his de tamed manner before Uitchinson and Gage, (page 131) caused the troops to be re- moved from Boston.
The formation of committees of correspondence between the different colo- nies has always been looked upon as one of the leading and most important causes of the revolution and its glorious results ; the origin of such maschtes after their excellence becomes developed, is naturally claimed by those in whose minds they were first conceived. and it is often difficult to settle with satisfaction and fairness, the claims of contending genius : this has been the case in the present instance : Virginia claims for her great statesman, Richard Henry Lee, equal merit with Massachus ff for her Samuel Adams, and deed the private correspondence of loth which has come to light, seems to establish the thet, that foch these patriotte si testen had been long reflecting on the causes and cfets of parla a mare powers and prerog dies, and can in los own state proposed ma mes which were approved of by the people : the formation of these comantes od correspondence was adopted in Boston town meeting in the latter part of the year 179, where it was suggested and carried through by Samuel Adams.
In 1973, Governor Gage sent a confidential verbal message to the patriot by Colonel Fenton, stating " the mis conduct had been such as made han liable "to the penalties of an Act of Henry VIII. by which persons could be sent to 'England for trial of treason, or misprision of treason ; but by changing hs
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'sund consultation shall aduce me to alemalon the field ons cause of my 'Country : tell Governor Gage, IT IS THE ADVICE OF SAMUEL ADAMS TO 'nin, no longer to insalt the feelings of an exasperated people:' -- that he parched the great and mighty abge t of his soul. the liberties of his country, parles of personal consequences : marked out for ministerial vengeance and su tring under pecuniary embarra-ments : Gage then issted a proclama- tion of parton to all persons in opposition to the Crown, but Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose od nees " said the proclamation, "are of too "Auditivas a nature to admit of any other consideration but that of condiga 'punishment,"-the percentions of the royalists served only to strengthen the patriots, giving encouragement to the resolute and spirited, and determi- mation to the tinid :- whenever Mr. All'nes perecived the Legislature luke- warm for even half way measures, he exerted all his influence and talents to carry them through with a different result : the House was in such a state at a critical time for departing delegaties to the Congress at Philadelphia : he ad- dressed his friend Mr. Warren of Plymouth; " do you keep the committee in day, aall will go an I make a canen- by the the the op ag anie , and 'do yon na 'et m ." Mr. Adams scented a meeting of about five of the price .- pd membres at the time speeched, an I rog ated his endeavors the second and this I nights when they numbered over thirty : the administration not knowing mything on the subject ; the popular Itulets took the sense of the members in a private way, and found they would be able to carry their measure's in the House : they prepared the whole plan, resolutions, &c., and then determined terry them through: before they commenced, they ordered the doorkeeper to let no one in, or sefer any one to depart : the surgeets were then intro- duced by Mr. Adams, with his natal elegance on such great occasions; he was chairarm of the Committee and report il resolutions for the appointment of delegates to a general Congress. to be convened at Philadelphia, to consult on the safety of America : this report was received with surplice and aston- isament by the administration party, and such was the apprehension of some, that they were apparently desprons to desert the questoat the door- keeper som uneasy at his charge sand wavering in the daty assigned to him : at this moment Mr. Adams achieved him by taking the key and keep- ing it hi uselt: the resolutions were passat and five delegates gage His top- painted for the Continental Congress. but before the business was fondly closed, a member made a plea of iadisposition, and on long allowed to leave. the house, went directly to the Governor und informed him of their high hand- ed proceedings : the governor immediately sent his Secretary to dissolve the
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