Crooked. Writing In Answar to m' Edward Mills His Petitian. Voted That there be an Addition of Twenty Pounds to the Said m' Edward Mills Sallary – 1 Upon A Motion made by Elisha Cook Esq That the Dividing Line between the Towns Land in the Occupation of mr Nathan" Williams and His Land on the East Side in School Street is for want of due Care become Crucked, intrenching both upon the One and the Others Land, That therfore they would Direct and Imp[o]wer the Selectmen to Rectifie that line as to them Seems Just and Equitable And Further That they would be pleased to Accomodate him with about two feet of the Front of his Land next m' Williams on Such Terms as the Selectmen Shall Agree for with the Said m' Cooke Read and Voted That it be left with the Selectmen to Act therein as they Judge Meet On the Petition of m2 Jeram Condy for Addition to his Salary Voted that the Consideration of Said Petition be Referred for further Consideration to the Next Town Meeting, and That in the mean time Nathan" Green John Alford EsqTMs & m' Thomas Cushing Jun' are desired to Inspect the Several Wrighting Schools within this Town at Such time as they schools were Shall think Advisable for the year Currant, And that they do in an Espesial Mañer Vizit m' Condys School and Report to the Town at their Meeting the Ability and Industry of the Said m' Condy and the Proficiency of the Schollers under His Tuition lower schools. The New England school committees sprang out of these special visiting committees. The Comittee this day chosen & Appointed to Prepare Instructions for the Representatives, for their Acting at the General Court at their Approching Session And to Lay [them] before the Meeting in the afternoon - Return as Follows: Vizt To Elisha Cooke Esq' Mess" Thomas Cushing, Ezekiel Lewis & Samuel Welles : : Gentlemen tions were a usual func tion of town meetings. Your known Loyalty to His Present Majesty King George, Such instrucand Sincear Atachment to the Successian in the Illustrious House of Hannover, Your Hearty Love to this Your native Country, Your Singuler Value for the Liberty & Propperty of this People, your Chearfull and Una[ni]mous Concurrance to promote our Best Intrist, And your Approved Integrity Interest. in those Publick Stations wherein you haue bin Employed, Haue fixed the Eyes of this Town on and Determined their Choice of you as Propper Persons to Represent them in the Next General Assembly Wherin they Expect That you behaue your Selves with your Wonted Zeal and Courage in Prossecuting those good Designes which may tend to the Peace & wellfair of these His Majestys Good Subjects, and Secure those Rights and Priviledges which by the Royal Charter we haue a Just claim to, and as Englishmen do of Right appertain to us, And agreable there unto we Recomend unto you in an Especial Manner That you Endeavor to Maintain all our Civil Rights & Propertys against any Incrochments upon them That you Continue to Pay a due Regard to His Excellency Our Governor, and that you Endeavor that He may have an Honourable Support, But we desire at the Same time That you use your utmost Endeavor That the Honourable House of Representatives may not be by any means Prevailed upon or brought into the Fixing a Certain Sallary for any Certain time, But that they may Improve their usual freedom in granting their Money from time to time, as they Shall Judg the Province to be able, and in Such a manner as they Shall think most for the Benefit and advantage thereof, And if your Pay Should be diverted you may Depend on all the Justice Imaginable from this Town whom you Represent: Compare this with No. 50, above. The Foregoing Return of the Comitte was Presended[-ted] Read Sundry times and Voted Approved. The Report of the Selectmen upon Several Votes of the Town at their Meeting the 10th of March 1728: were Read & Considred Vizt The Selectmen haue Viewed the Marsh at the Bottom of the Comon, and not finding any Material use that can be made of it at the present, and Considering the Present Circomstances of the Town Are of Opinion it is best to ly in the Condition it now is. Read and the Report Accepted-.. As to the Proposals About Bennet Street-It is thought Convenient to be Paved if the Town thinke it Convenient to Raise Money for the Doing it at this Meeting. Read, and Refer'd for further Consideration to the Next March Meeting As to the Repair of the Wharf at the North Battery It is thought Convenient - That m1 Sam" Clark be Ordered to Clear the Wharf And that the Town let it to Some Person that may Offer to Repair it And keep it in Repair for A term of years as the Selectmen Shall think Advisable Read and Voted to be left with the Selectmen Voted That a Survey'd Plan be taken by Some Skillfull Surveyor or Survey[o]rs of the Lands of this Town belonging to the Town. In Order for the Same to be putt upon the Towns Records, to Prevent Incroachments on the Towns Int[e]rest. The Selectmen to take Care that this work be effected Voted That the Sum of Three Hundred Pounds be Raised on the Inhabitants and Estates within this Town for Defraying the Towns Charge and more Espetialy Paving Boston Record Commissioners, Report, 1729-1742 (Boston, 1885), 6-9 passim. CHAPTER IX-THE REVOLUTION 53. The Boston Tea-Party (1773) FINE INE moderat Weather continued, till this morning [Dec. 19, 1773] som snow & cold & raw with frost. Note. The body of the people of Boston and numbers from the neighbouring Towns have lately mett at the Old South Meeting house (Faneuil Hall, not being so large as to contain the people) Supos'd to be from 5 to 6,000, and having Several meetings, conserning a Large quantity of Tea shipt'd from London by the East India Company Subject to a Duty payable in America. This meeting was adjourned to the P. m. and after finding all methods failed, with those men to whom the Tea was consigned, to send it back from whence it came, dissolved their meeting. But Behold what followed. A number of Resolute men in less than 3, some say 2 hours time, Em[p]tied Every Chest of Tea, on Board the 3 Ships Commanded by Captains Hall, Bruce & Coffin, into the Sea, amounting to 342 Chests without the least damage to the Ships, or other property. This Tea was worth 'tis said at least 25,000. £ sterling, as a great deal of it was green Tea. It was all distroyed, with as little noise as perhaps anything of the like nature was ever don in the Evening and all over & quiet by 8 O'Clock By DEACON a Boston 1793. His especially valuable, since many notes are of the imevents of the period were nessed or participated in by the portant either wit deacon or For Tudor, his son. see Contemporaries, II, No. 151. For the Boston Tea Party, see Contemporaries, II, ch. xxiv. - For causes of the Revolution, see Am. Hist. William Tudor, editor, Deacon Tudor's Diary (Boston, 1896), Studies, No. 44-45. 4; Contem poraries, II, Part VI. The "Tea-Party" took place December 16; the real issue was whether a tax should be collected by English authority in America. SPOON, (1722-1794), president of Princeton College, member of the Continental Congress, of the Board of War, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. From his arrival in the country in 1768 he was one of the 54. "Conduct of the British Ministry" (1775) E VERY one knows that when the claims of the British Parliament were openly made, and violently enforced, the most precise and determined resolutions were entered into, and published by every colony, every county, and almost every township or smaller district, that they would not submit to them. This was clearly expressed in the greatest part of them, and ought to be understood as the implied sense of them all, not only that they would not soon or easily, but that they would never on any event, submit to them. For my own part, I confess, I would never have signed these resolves at first, nor taken up arms in consequence of them afterwards, if I had not been fully most tireless convinced, as I am still, that acquiescence in this usurped power, would be followed by the total and absolute ruin of the colonies. They would have been no better than tributary states to a kingdom at a great distance from them. They would have been therefore, as has been the case with all states in a similar situation from the beginning of the world, the servants of servants from generation to generation. For this reason I declare it to have been my meaning, and I know it was the meaning of thousands more, that though we earnestly wished for reconciliation with safety to our liberties, yet we did deliberately prefer, not only the horrors of a civil war, not only the danger of anarchy, and the uncertainty of a new settlement, but even extermination itself to slavery, rivetted on us and our posterity. workers in the American cause, and he was very useful in bringing over many Scotch Irish and Scotch to his side. The piece is a good ex ample of the more moder ate patriotic arguments.For causes of the Revo lution, see Contempora ries, II, Part VI. By the Boston Port Bill of 1774. The most peaceable means were first used; but no relaxation could be obtained: one arbitrary and oppressive act followed after another; they destroyed the property of a whole capital — subverted to its very foundation, the constitution and government of a whole colony, and granted the |