Note 264 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

There are in the Boston Archives sundry record-books of this time: list of donations; records of Donation Committee; list of persons aided; cash-book of the Donation Committee. The House of Representatives at Salem, June 18, 1774, passed resolutions commending Boston to the aid of all, and sent these resolutions through the country in broadsides. The provincial congress at Cambridge, Dec. 6, 1774, recorded their vote and similarly scattered it. (Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiii. 182.) For the gifts which came to Boston, and the attendant records and correspondence, see Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xix. 158, and vol. xxxiv.; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 382; Col. A. H. Hoyt's paper in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1876. For the help from Virginia, see Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iii. 259.