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Because of these actions, the [[Continental Congress]] passed a resolution unanimously that urged sending supplies to Bostonians during the [[Siege of Boston]], praised the [[Suffolk Resolves]], and criticized Britain's "wicked ministerial measures."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5bwrAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA74 The Birth of the Republic: Compiled from the National and Colonial Histories and Historical Collections, from the American Archives and from Memoirs, and from the Journals and Proceedings of the British Parliament]</ref>  Likewise the Committee of Correspondence of Worcester noted that: "many places searched, where arms and ammunition were suspected to be; and if found, seized."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=G6wTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA645 The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775: And of the Committee of Safety, with an Appendix, Containing the Proceedings of the County Conventions-narratives of the Events of the Nineteenth of April, 1775]</ref>

Because of these actions, the [[Continental Congress]] passed a resolution unanimously that urged sending supplies to Bostonians during the [[Siege of Boston]], praised the [[Suffolk Resolves]], and criticized Britain's "wicked ministerial measures."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5bwrAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA74 The Birth of the Republic: Compiled from the National and Colonial Histories and Historical Collections, from the American Archives and from Memoirs, and from the Journals and Proceedings of the British Parliament]</ref>  Likewise the Committee of Correspondence of Worcester noted that: "many places searched, where arms and ammunition were suspected to be; and if found, seized."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=G6wTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA645 The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775: And of the Committee of Safety, with an Appendix, Containing the Proceedings of the County Conventions-narratives of the Events of the Nineteenth of April, 1775]</ref>

As noted in the ''Chronical'' of 1774, one of the most irritating actions the people were subjected to was the "seizing their arms and ammunition".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mHpIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA489 The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 44]</ref>  The following year, King George extended the prohibition, and John Pownall, a member of Parliament, wrote to colonial governors that "His Majesty's Subjects in America should be informed of the Proclamation issued by order of the States General, prohibiting the exportation of Arms and Ammunition from their Dominions, in British Ships or in their own Ships."<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Colonial_Records_of_North_Carolina/_StIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1186 The Colonial Records of North Carolina]</ref>

As noted in the ''Chronical'' of 1774, one of the most irritating actions the people were subjected to was the "seizing their arms and ammunition".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mHpIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA489 The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 44]</ref>  The following year, King George extended the prohibition, and John Pownall, a member of Parliament, wrote to colonial governors that "His Majesty's Subjects in America should be informed of the Proclamation issued by order of the States General, prohibiting the exportation of Arms and Ammunition from their Dominions, in British Ships or in their own Ships."<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Colonial_Records_of_North_Carolina/_StIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1186 The Colonial Records of North Carolina]</ref>  As noted by historians [[Richard Frothingham Jr.|Richard Frothingham]] and [[David Ramsay]], during the [[Siege of Boston]] townspeople were forced to stay under the watchful eye of British guards unless they surrendered their arms and ammunition.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/historysiegebos01frotgoog History of the siege of Boston, and of the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill], by [[Richard Frothingham Jr.]], p. 95</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_the_American_Revolution_A/jNJQjkeDinoC?hl=en&pg=PA168 The History of the American Revolution], by [[David Ramsay]], p. 168</ref>

One of the final documents prior to the [[Declaration of Independence]] was the [[Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms]], in which it is written:

One of the final documents prior to the [[Declaration of Independence]] was the [[Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms]], in which is written a reference to the events that happened during the Siege of Boston:

<blockquote>The inhabitants of Boston..... entered into a treaty with him, it was stipulated that the said inhabitants, having deposited their arms with their own Magistrates... delivered up their arms; but in open violation of honour, in defiance of the obligation of treaties, which even savage nations esteemed sacred, the Governour ordered the arms deposited as aforesaid.... to be seized by a body of soldiers</blockquote>

<blockquote>The inhabitants of Boston..... entered into a treaty with him, it was stipulated that the said inhabitants, having deposited their arms with their own Magistrates... delivered up their arms; but in open violation of honour, in defiance of the obligation of treaties, which even savage nations esteemed sacred, the Governour ordered the arms deposited as aforesaid.... to be seized by a body of soldiers</blockquote>