Date: September 9, 1774 “At a meeting of the delegates of every town and district in the county of Suffolk, on Tuesday, the 6th of September, at the house of Mr. Richard Woodward, of Dedham, and, by adjournment, at the house of Mr. Daniel Vose, of Milton, on Friday, the 9th instant, Joseph Palmer, Esq., […]
by Warren
Date: May 10, 1775 Posted from Cambridge [MA] to my “dear friend, Miss Mercy Scollay [at Worcester] [I] am happy in hearing you with the Family are all in Health. Dr. Dix wanted to be informed respecting the sowing some wheat, let the Dr. know I shall acquiesce in his Judgment. I think it will […]
Date: April 10, 1775 “[to Dr. Dix] Boston [Monday] April 10, 1775 Sir my Goods are many of them out of Town. I must pray you to hire a Couple of Waggons for me and direct them to go to the House of Mrs Mary Warren in Roxbury for as many of my Goods as […]
Date: February 25, 1775 To Dr. Elijah Dix [of Worcester] “Boston, 25 Feby. 1775 I must request you to have the House ready to receive some of my Goods in three or four Days, if they should arrive before any of my Family I must beg you would take the care of them, as the […]
Date: May 15 and 22, 1769; May 15, 1769 “All Persons indebted to the Estate of Nathaniel Wheelwright, Esq; late of Boston, deceas’d, by Bond, Note or Book, are requested to make immediate Payment —As the Creditors to said estate have desired the Administrator to sue without Delay for all Debts that may be due. […]
Author: Mucius Scaevola, a pseudonym of Joseph Warren Date: January 2, 1772 “To T—– H———, Esq. Sir, Notwithstanding your apparent ascendency over the reprehensive power of any body politic in this community, I cannot esteem myself fairly acquitted of my duty without giving you a little share of wholesome admonition, in common with the rest […]
Author: Mucius Scaevola, a pseudonym Date: November 14, 1771 “If it be true, that the exceptionable clause in the late proclamation, was not proposed by Mr. Hutchinson, but by one of the council; yet there it stands, and is nevertheless exceptionable, and must reflect dishonor somewhere, even though it were inadvertently inserted. It is not […]
James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren, and Samuel Pemberton, in committee Date: March 23, 1770 “It may be a proper introduction to this narrative, briefly to represent the state of things for some time previous to the said Massacre; and this seems necessary in order to the forming a just idea of the causes of it. At […]
Date: June 28, 1770 “I the Subscriber having this day purchas’d a Negro Boy of Joshua Green have made the followg: conditions with him viz. That I will add Ten Pounds Lawfull Money to be paid in Potter’s Ware manufactur’d in this Town in three years to the Thirty pounds first agreed for if in […]
