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Voting to remove General Gage as Royal Governor

Lot 641
24.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 641 | Voting to remove General Gage as Royal Governor
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Voting to remove General Gage as Royal Governor
Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 5 May 1775
[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. [MASSACHUSETTS PROVINCIAL CONGRESS]. In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 5, 1775. Whereas the term for which this present Congress was chose, expires on the thirtieth instant ... Resolved, that ... the several towns and districts ... forthwith elect and depute... members...to represent them in a Provincial Congress to be held...in Watertown, on the 31st day of May...[Signed in type by Joseph Warren]. [Followed by, on the same sheet]: In Provincial Congress...Whereas His Excellency General Gage, since his arrival into this colony, hath conducted as an instrument in the hands of an arbitrary ministry to enslave this people...Resolved, that...General Gage, hath... disqualified himself to serve this colony as a governor... Salem: Printed by E[zekiel] Russell, next door to J. Turner, Esq, in the Main-Street, [1775].

In the wake of Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress votes to remove Gage as royal governor. Two very significant acts of the recently constituted Provincial Congress, in the aftermath of the bloody battles at Lexington and Concord. The congress was convened in Watertown, safely beyond the reach of Gage's Boston garrison. The first resolution forcefully calls for the election of delegates to a new Provincial Congress, deemed "absolutely necessary for the safety of this colony," to "consult, deliberate, and resolve upon such measures as under God shall...save this people from impending ruin, and to secure those inestimable Liberties, derived to us from our ancestors...." The second resolution indicts General Gage for attempting to "enslave" this people. The Lexington alarm is cited: "a detachment of the troops under his command, has of late been by him ordered to the town of Concord, to destroy the public stores," and "by this clandestine and perfidious measure, a number of respectable inhabitants of this colony, without any provocation given to them, have been illegally, wantonly, and inhumanely slaughtered by his troops...." Therefore, as Gage is "an unnatural and inveterate enemy to the country," his writs, proclamations, "and doings" shall not be obeyed by the people. After the Massachusetts charter was annulled by Parliament, a Provincial Congress was organized in October 1774. It became the de facto government of Massachusetts. Hancock was its first President, followed by Warren, who here styles himself president pro tem. Evans 14225; Ford 1851. Provenance: A. T. White or Adrien Van Sinderen – by descent to the consignor.

Broadside. 362 x 238mm (paper backed with another sheet reinforcing two clean fold separations, a pair of pinholes at fold intersections, small loss at upper left).
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