On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress adopts a resolution

That the proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the fifth of September last, and reported by the honorable delegates from this colony, have, with the deliberation due to their high importance, been considered by us; and the American bill of rights therein contained, appears to be formed with the greatest ability and judgment; to be founded on the immutable laws of nature and reason, the principles of the English constitution, and the respective charters and constitutions of the colonies; and to be worthy of their most vigorous support, as essentially necessary to liberty: likewise the ruinous and iniquitous measures, which, in violation of their rights, at present convulse and threaten destruction to America appear to be clearly pointed out, and judicious plans adopted for defeating them.

The Provincial Congress also resolved

That the Hon. John Hancock, Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esqrs., Mr. Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, Esqrs. . . . are appointed and authorized to represent this colony on the tenth of May next . . . at the American Congress to be held at Philadelphia, with full power, with the delegates from the other American colonies, to concert, direct, and order such further measures as shall to them appear to be best calculated for the recovery and establishment of American rights and liberties

The Massachusetts Provincial Congress further “strongly recommended” that a “committee of inspection . . . ought immediately to be chosen . . . by each town and district in the colony not having already appointed such committees [and] that they exert themselves in causing the [Continental] association . . . to be strictly executed”.

Source: The Journals of each Provincial congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775 (entry for Dec. 5, 1774) available at https://www.loc.gov/item/09030302/ (bold emphasis added)

Perhaps coincidentally, also on this day 250 years ago in Dedham, Massachusetts, the town meeting

Voted — that this town do solemnly engage to conform to all the Resolves and Recommendations of the Continental Congress, and that we will do everything in our power to carry this Association Agreement in complete execution.

And the Dedham Town Meeting further formed

a Committee of Inspection, who are carefully to endeavor to find out whether any of the Inhabitants of the Town presume to violate the foregoing engagement, and if any should discover themselves to be so utterly void of love to their country as in any article to act contrary thereto, the committee are to post up their names in some public place in each parish as enemies to the welfare of America.

Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/lexington-and-concord-dedham-militia/