[American Revolution]: [Massachusetts]: Bordman, Andrew:

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[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, TOWN CLERK ANDREW BORDMAN, CALLING A TOWN MEETING TO DISCUSS THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST PROVINCIAL CONGRESS AND ELECT DELEGATES TO THE ... A crucially important manuscript document calling a town meeting at Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to consider measures "for the recovering, and securing, [of] our Just Rights and Liberties." Issued less than four months before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the warrant calls for those "Freeholders & other Inhabitants on the south side of Charles River" to "assemble at the Court House in Cambridge...on Monday, the Second Day of January [1775]." By the early 1770s the town meeting was a venerable and important part of civic and political life in colonial New England. It was at such meetings that eligible citizens directly participated in their governance, and town meetings were important tools in coalescing resistance to the British Crown and its increasingly oppressive edicts with regard to the American colonies. This document is addressed to Cambridge town constable Benjamin Dana, and is written and signed by Andrew Bordman, the Cambridge town clerk.The text, interestingly issued "In His Majesty's Name," lists four items on the meeting's agenda. First, "To know the Minds of the town whether they will [be] agreeable to the recommendations of the Provincial Congress" and "Elect and Depute one or more Members to represent them in a Provincial Congress." Newspapers printed

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