I am, Sir, in the name of the Committee, with sincere good wishes, your friend and countryman,
_________________________________________________________________ 1Member of the committee of correspondence of Sandwich, Massachusetts. 2The actual date of this letter would appear to have been February 25, from a prior manuscript copy in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society. All letters here printed from the Collections, 4th ser., vol. iv., are contained in a volume of manuscript copies, from which apparently the texts in the Collections were edited. The text of the Collections has been followed in the present volume.
THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE OF BOSTON TO JOHN BROWN.1
[MS., Committee of Correspondence Papers, Lenox Library.]
BOSTON, Feb 21 1775
SIR/
Agreable to the Order of the Provincial Congress, the Committee of Correspondence of this Town have written Letters to some Gentlemen of Montreal and Quebeck, which are herewith inclosd. We have also sent you Twenty Pounds as directed by the Congress. We hope you will make the utmost Dispatch to Canada, as much depends upon it. We are with sincere good Wishes.
Your humble Servants,
_________________________________________________________________ 1Of Pittsfield Mass.