Massachusetts. Provincial Congress

In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 9th, 1775. Whereas a few of the Inhabitants of this Colony ... Resolved [to supply inhabitants with firearms]. [Signed in type:] Joseph Warren, President.  [Watertown: Benjamin Edes, 1775]

Broadside, 6 1/2 x 7 in.; 165 x 178 mm); mounted on paper obscuring docket dated 23 April 1775 on verso.

Evans 14228

mounted on paper obscuring docketing dated 23 April 1775 on verso.
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After the Battle of Lexington, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress decided it was time to survey available armaments with a view to supplying those patriots in need: "Resolved, that the Selectmen of the several Towns ... hereby are directed and impowered to examine into the State of the Equipment of such Inhabitants ... as are or may be inlisted into the Service of the Colony; and in case of a Deficiency there, to apply to such inhabitants ... as ... can best spare their Arms or Accoutrements, and to borrow or purchase the same for the Use of said Inhabitants so inlisted ..."

Very rare, no copy listed in OCLC, not in auction records back to 1975.