Notice to the Selectmen of Groton     

The Selectmen of Boston sent this notice, the first to Massachusetts’s more provincial towns, inviting a delegate from Groton to the first Committee of Convention to discuss grievances against the British crown. The document uses language such as “dark and difficult season”, and “one of the greatest distresses to which a free people can be reduced to,” in order to push Groton townspeople toward the vote for sovereignty.