CHAPTER XIX.

1774, CONTINUED UNTIL THE MEETING OF THE FIRST

GENERAL CONGRESS IN SEPTEMBER. 403-408

Resolutions in all the Colonies in favour of a general

Convention or Congress, and election of delegates to it 403

General sympathy and liberality on behalf of the town

of Boston 404

How information on subjects of agitation was rapidly

diffused throughout the Colonies 405

The Act of Parliament changing the Constitution of

Massachusetts without its consent gave rise to the

American Revolution; the authority of that Act never

acknowledged in Massachusetts 407

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