Conduct of the Committees of Correspondence of Plymouth

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The Committee appointed to take into consideration the Address from the Committee of Correspondence of the Town of Scituate, and other Towns in that vicinity, reported. Their Report was read and accepted, and ordered that it be published in the Newspapers, and is as followeth, viz:

Voted, That the Congress do highly approve of the vigilance and activity of the Selectmen and the Committees of Correspondence of the several Towns of Plymouth, Kingston, Duxbury, Pembroke, Hanover, and Scituate, in detecting the falsehoods and malicious artifices of certain persons belonging to Marshfield and Scituate, not respectable either in their numbers or their characters, who are, with great reason, supposed to have been the persons who prevailed upon General Gage to take the imprudent step of sending a number of the King' s Troops into Marshfield, under the pretence of protecting them, whereby great and just offence has been given to the good people of this Province, as very fatal consequences must have arisen therefrom, if the same malevolent spirit which seems to have influenced them, had actuated the inhabitants of the neighbouring Towns; or if the same indiscretion which betrayed the General into the unwarrantable measure of sending the Troops, had led this people to destroy them.

Voted, That the Congress do earnestly recommend it to the Selectmen and Committees of Correspondence in the several Towns of Plymouth, Kingston, Duxbury, Pembroke, Hanover, and Scituate, steadily to persevere in the same line of conduct which has in this instance so justly entitled them to the esteem of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep a watchful eye upon the behaviour of those who are aiming at the destruction of our liberties.