On OCTOBER 26, 1774, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts reorganized their defenses with one-third of their regiments being “Minutemen,” ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
These citizen soldiers drilled on the parade ground, many times led by a deacon or pastor, then went to church for exhortation and prayer.
The Provincial Congress charged:
“You…are placed by Providence in the post of honor, because it is the post of danger…
The eyes not only of North America and the whole British Empire, but of all Europe, are upon you.
Let us be, therefore, altogether solicitous that no disorderly behavior, nothing unbecoming our character as Americans, as citizens and Christians, be justly chargeable to us.”
The Provincial Congress issued a Resolution to Massachusetts Bay, 1774:
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual…
Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”
Boston patriot Josiah Quincy stated:
“Under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.”
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