Unitarian Church, Concord, Mass.

Abdalian, Leon H., 1884-1967 · [October 15, 1929]

The First Provincial Congress of Delegates from the towns of Massachusetts was called by convention of the people to meet at Concord on the eleventh day of October 1774, the Delegates assembled here in the Meeting-House on that day and organized with John Hancock as President and Benjamin Lincoln as Secretary, called together to maintain the rights of the people. The Congress assumed the government of the province and by its measures prepared the way for the war of the revolution.