 That a meeting of committees from the several colonies on this continent is highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon the present state of the colonies, and the miseries to which they are and must be reduced by the operation of certain acts of Parliament...  Collections of the American Statistical Association - Page 391by American Statistical Association - 1847 - 596 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William MacDonald - Charters - 1916 - 684 pages
...Representatives, under the leadership of Samuel Adams, resolved : "That a meeting of committees from the several colonies on this continent is highly expedient and...the colonies, most ardently desired by all good men : Therefore, resolved, that the Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq., the Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq., Mr. Samuel... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1903 - 484 pages
...quietly made their way into Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, and there, sitting down together, began ' to consult upon the present state of the colonies,...Colonies, most ardently desired by all good men.' Thus came into life •the first Continental Congress and with it the permanent political union of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1893 - 834 pages
...Those of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Samuel and John Adams among them, were charged to seek " The restoration of union and harmony between Great...colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." The great Province of Pennsylvania sent delegates for conference, "And for establishing that union... | |
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