Committee of Safety to Massachusetts Congress

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In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, June 19, 1775.

It being very desirous to obtain the most certain accounts of the names and places of abode of the persons who have been killed or wounded in the battle of Lexington, so called, on the nineteenth of April past, and at any time since; and also of all such as may be killed or wounded at any future time during the present unnatural contest between Great Britain and the American Colonies, in order to transmit to future generations the names of such who have gloriously suffered in the cause of liberty and their Country; to effect which,

Resolved, That it be recommended to the honourable Congress to order that the Selectmen of the several Towns and Districts in. this Colony transmit, from time to time, to this or some future Congress or House of Representatives, the names and additions of all such persons who have been, or may be killed or wounded as above, within their respective Towns and Districts, and that they severally cause the same to be fairly entered upon their Town and District books.

BENJAMIN WHITE, Chairman.

To the Honourable Provincial Congress, Watertown.