Boston, September 14, 1768. : Gentlemen, You are already too well acquainted with the melancholly [sic] and very alarming circumstances to which this province, as well as America in general, is now reduced. ...

Circular letter from the selectmen of Boston transmitting to the various towns in Massachusetts the resolves of the town meeting held on September 12, and requesting that representatives be sent to a convention at Boston on September 22, to consider what measures should be adopted to obtain redress of grievances against Great Britain. Cf. Bristol B2850. The New-York Historical Society copy is signed in a single hand with the names of Joseph Jackson, John Ruddock, John Rowe, John Hancock, and Samuel Pemberton, selectmen of Boston. New-York Historical copy inscribed at head: A. Lamb.