Delegates from 96 towns and 8 districts converged on Boston on September 22, 1768, meeting at Faneuil Hall to discuss responses to arriving British troops.

Delegates from 96 Massachusetts towns and 8 districts began converging in Boston on September 22, 1768, gathering in Faneuil Hall to discuss their options in response to news that British troops would soon arrive to crack down on anti-British rioting. Slightly more than half the delegates were the same men who had represented their towns in the Massachusetts House earlier that year. The assembly was extralegal, and its overall tone was considerably more conservative than that of the Boston town meeting.

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