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Cambridge, April 30, 1775.
GENTLEMEN: Enclosed you have a Resolve of Congress, which we hope will remove every obstacle to the removal of our friends from Boston. The necessity of going from this Town to Watertown, in order to lay the proposals of this Committee before the Provincial Congress, we hope will suggest to you an apology for any supposed delay. But be assured that no person now in Boston is more sensible of the distress, nor more desirous of relieving our brethren there, than the members of this Committee. Encouragement will be given to-morrow to the wagoners in the country, to repair to Boston to give all possible
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assistance to our friends, in the removal of their effects. I wrote yesterday to General Gage upon the subject, and requested him to take into consideration the expediency of restraining the country from sending in more than thirty wagons at one time, but I have received no answer. If I should receive any, the contents, so far as they respect my ever-adored Town of Boston, shall be communicated to you. We are, &c.