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Papers of John Adams, volume 2

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Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress, 6 February 1775 JA Lincoln, Benjamin Massachusetts Provincial Congress

1775-02-06

 Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress, 6 February 1775 Adams, John Lincoln, Benjamin Massachusetts Provincial Congress
Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress
In provincial Congress Cambridge Feby. 6th 1775

Resolved, that the Hon. John Hancock Hon. Thomas Cushing Esquires Mr. Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Pain Esquires appointed by the last provincial Congress “to represent this Colony on the 10th of May next or sooner if necessary, at the American Congress, to be held at Philadelphia” be and they hereby are, authorized and impowered “with the Delegates from the other American Colonies” to Adjourn from time to time and place to place as shall be judged necessary; and to continue in being as Delegates for this Colony, untill the Thirty first day of December next ensuing and no longer.1

A true Copy of Record Benjamin Lincoln Secretary

P. S. enclosed is a Letter received last night from Mr. Higginson of Sept. 15. which I recommend to the Consideration of the heads of Departments2

John Adams

PCC, (M-332, Misc. Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 8.)

1.

These men were chosen on 5 Dec. 1774 (Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. , p. 57). On 10 Feb. 1775, the Congress resolved to pay each delegate £56 for past service and £100 for his next stint in the Continental Congress (same, p. 95–96).

 2.

In the hand of JA, written on the verso. The reference is probably to Stephen Higginson, but the letter has not been found, nor has the year of JA's note been determined.