The Writings of Samuel Adams 1770-1773 Author:Samuel Adams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: far different resolution !—If this agreement of the merchants is of that consequence to All America which our brethren in //the other governments, and in Great-B... more »ritain Itself think it to be—If the fate of Unborn Millions is suspended upon it, verily it behooves, not the merchants Only, but every individual of Every class in City and Country to aid and support them and Peremptorily To Insist upon its being Strictly adhered to. Determinates. THE TOWN OF BOSTON TO THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS.1 [MS., Office of the City Clerk of Boston.] To his Honor the Lieutenant Governor in Council The Memorial of the Town of Boston legally assembled in Faneuil Hall Monday March 19 1770 Humbly shews That with deep Concern they are made to understand that thro the Providence of God diverse of his Majestys Justices of the Superior Court are renderd unable to attend the Duties of their important Trust by bodily Indisposition. 1 Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and John Barret were on March 19, 1770, appointed by the Boston town-meeting " a Committee to draw up a Memorial to the Lieuvetenant Governor and Council praying that special Justices may be appointed for the Superior Court now sitting in the room of those who may be necessarily prevented by sickness from attending their duty ; that so the Tryals of the many Criminals now committed may not be postponed. . . ." At the same session the committee reported a draft, which was accepted.—Boston Record Commissioners' Report, vol. xviii., p. 15. That there are a great Number of Prisoners now in his Majestys Gaol in the County of Suffolk, of whom fifteen are confind for Tryal for capital offences. That the Sherriff of said County has been under Apprehension of the Escape of said Prisoners as appears by his Letter to th...« less