To the Provincial Congress

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To the Honourable Provincial Congress of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, in Congress assembled, May, 1775:

May it please your Honours:

The Association in Eastham (which, at present, consists of about ninety persons, and is increasing) finding the Town of Eastham (though urged thereto) have not complied with the Resolve made and passed in Provincial Congress, at Concord,, the 31st of March, 1775, in regard to paying in their money to the Receiver-General, immediately called a meeting of the Association, voted to hire what money was not collected of the Association, and have accordingly paid in the whole of our part of the Province Tax to the Constables, viz: Captain Job Crocker, who was Collector for the year 1774, and Mr˙ Jonathan Linnelye, the third, who is Collector for the present year. As they are both members of this Association, they have engaged to transmit the same to Henry Gardner, Esquire, of Stow, without delay.

N˙B˙ It is voted by the Association, as their desire, that the Orders, Resolves, and Recommendations of the Provincial Congress for this Town may be directed in future to some one of this Committee, as they are not always made publick if they fall into the hands of some men in this Town. Per order of the Association:

THOMAS PAINE,
ISAAC SPARROW,
THOMAS TWINING,
HEMAN LINNELL,
JOHN DAVIS,
Committee of Correspondence.