Excerpt from New Hampshire's Five Provincial Congresses, July 21 1774 January 5, 1776: A Paper, Read in Part at a Meeting of the New Hampshire Historical Society, January 11, 1905, With an Appendix Containing Brief Notices of Persons Mentioned TherinThere is a period of our New Hampshire history, embracing about a year and a half, to Which no great attention has hitherto been given. T his, to the close student, is of crucial interest, inasmuch as it includes the time When our mother country com pelled her American colonies to abandon all peace able efforts for a redress of their grievances and submit their cause to the arbitrament of arms. It extends from the 8th day of June, 1774, When Gov ernor Wentworth dissolved the Provincial Assembly, to the sth day ofjanuary, 1776, When the members of the F ifth Provincial Congress, acting for their constituents, voted to take up civil government1 and established the first constitutional state govern ment instituted in America. To a consideration of some of the more important events of this period, Which covers that of our Five Provincial Congresses, your attention is now invited.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.