1779 Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts Bay For Sale

Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, Begun and held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday, the Twenty sixth Day of May, being the last Wednesday in said Month, Anno Domini 1779, and continued by Adjournments to Tuesday the Fourteenth Day of December following, and then met at Boston aforesaid.

This is an original 1779 Resolves. There are 137 Resolves and listed below are some of them. Several Resolves involve the Penobscot Expedition. (According to information obtained online, the Penobscot Expedition resulted in the United States' worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor 162 years later in 1941.)

I. Resolve authorizing the Judges of the several Maritime Courts to makeand enter up their Decrees, etc…where there have been no certificates from theCommissary of prisoners of the delivery of prisoners.

V. Resolve directing the Board of War to supply General Jacob Baileywith certain articles of cloathing suitable for the Indians at theWestward to the amount of twelve hundred pounds.

X. Resolve respecting the Expediency of appointing some suitable personsas Delegates to represent this state at the Convention to be held at Philadelphia, on the firstWednesday of January next.

XVI. Resolve directing the Committee on Accounts tomake up a roll of the sums due to each town,etc. in this State, of supplies for the families of the Continental Soldiers

XX. Resolve granting Liberty to several of theConvention Prisoners of War to reside in this State

XXII. Instructions to theCommittee appointed to meet Commissioners from the other States at Philadelphia, on thefirst Wednesday in January next.

Letter “To the Honorable Elbridge Gerry, Esq; and Samuel Osgood,Esq….The General Assembly having appointed you Commissioners to represent thisState at the Convention…you are hereby authorized and impowered to meet at thetime and place before mentioned such Commissioners as may be appointed byother United States and to confer and consult with them upon the expediency oflimiting the prices of articles of produce and merchandize..."

(FYI: Elbridge Gerry was an American Founding Father and the fifth Vice President ofthe United States(1813-1814) under James Madison. He was a signer of the Declaration ofIndependence and the Articles of Confederation. The political practice ofgerrymandering is named after him. Samuel Osgood was the fourth United StatesPostmaster General.)

XXXII. Resolve directing Capt. Daniel Sullivan and Capt. Hall to make up their Rolls for Service on the Penobscot Expedition.

XXXIX. Resolve making a furtherAppropriation for inlisting Soldiers into the Continental Army

XLVII. Resolve directing the Committee for Fortifications to have a Beacon erected on the Spit of Sand at the Entrance of Boston Harbour.

LI. Resolve desiring the committee appointed to ascertain the rights of this State to lands lying upon the New-Hampshire Grants to continue their researches: Resolved, That the Honorable James Bowdoin, Samuel Adams and John Lowell, Esq'rs, a committee appointed for the purpose aforesaid, be and they hereby are desired to continue their researches after the evidence to prove the claim of this State to lands lying within the tract lately called Vermont...

LVII. Resolve granting additional pay to the State-Clothier, and making an establishment for his Assistant. Whereas Samuel Ruggles, Esq. has been appointed (by this Court) State-Clothier, to reside with or near that part of the Continental army raised by this State, and observe and perform all the duties enjoined on a State-Clothier, agreeable to a resolve of the Continental Congress...

LX. Resolve for publishing in a Pamphlet the several Orders, Letters, etc. relative to the Penobscot Expedition.

LXI. Resolve directing the Committee for purchasing cloathing and small stores to supply all recruits for the army, raised by this State, with those articles, and to request the Continental Agents to supply any deficient articles.

LXII. Resolve making provision for recovering the Fire-Arms delivered on the Penobscot Expedition

LXXXIV. Resolve granting additional pay to the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

LXXXVI. Resolve directing the Board of War to procure certain Articles for Col. John Allen at Machias; Whereas it is very great importance that the Indians in the Eastern Department be retained in the interest of these States.

XCVIII. Resolve recommending payment to Peter Tufts of Charlestown; The Committee of both Houses...for paying the rent of the houses procured at Charlestown for the troops of the Convention, and damages done the same, as relates to Peter Tufts and report, have attended that service, and report as the opinion of said Committee, that the sum of six hundred pounds be paid to the said Peter Tufts...

CXVIII. Letter to the Several towns in this State, for the purpose of procuring Blankets for the Army.

The Resolves measure about 14" x 8-1/2"; pages 161-196; some of the string at binding is detached.

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