Series IV: Minutes, 1776.

Containers:

Box 4

Extent:

Extent: 1 v.

Scope and content:

Series IV: Minutes, 1776, contains a single volume that documents Committee of Safety meeting minutes from 1776 February 7 through 1776 July 5. The minutes largely document orders for purchases and expenses to be paid. Expenses include supplies such as guns, medicine, wood, clothing, wagons, tabacco, and other provisions. Other topics include business matters such as hires, appointments, and resignations; letters received or sent by the committee; prisoners; recruiting services; the movement of supplies around the colony; information and reports presented to the committee; appearances before the committee; and examinations of cases.

This volume appears to be the original meeting minutes, as the minutes were written in shorthand. There are overlapping entries between this minute book and the journal in Series III (1776 June 5 - 1776 July 5). While the journal entries appear to largely match the contents of the minute book, the July 5 minute book entry includes two additional line items and a final note that the committee was dissolved by the adjournment of the convention that are otherwise absent from the journal.

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