Question: HMS Diligent participated in the expedition that was mounted during the Revolutionary war by which group?
Context: The Penobscot Expedition was a 44-ship American naval task force mounted during the Revolutionary War by the Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.  The flotilla of 19 warships and 25 smaller support vessels sailed from Boston on July 19, 1779 for the upper Penobscot Bay in the District of Maine carrying a ground expeditionary force of more than 1,000 colonial Marines and militiamen.  Also included was a 100-man artillery detachment under the command of Lt. Colonel Paul Revere.  The Expedition's goal was to reclaim control of what is now mid-coast Maine from the British who had seized it a month earlier and renamed it New Ireland.  It was the largest American naval expedition of the war.  The fighting took place both on land and at sea in and around the mouth of the Penobscot and Bagaduce Rivers at what is today Castine, Maine over a period of three weeks in July and August of 1779.  One of its greatest victories of the war for the British, the Expedition was also the United States' worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor 162 years later in 1941. Logan's Raid was a military expedition early in the Northwest Indian War.  In October 1786, under orders from George Rogers Clark, General Benjamin Logan led mounted Kentucky militia against several Shawnee towns in the Ohio Country along the Little Miami and Mad River, occupied primarily by noncombatants, since most warriors had left to defend the villages of Chief Little Turtle from a separate force moving up the Wabash River under the command of General George Rogers Clark.  Logan seized and burned thirteen villages, full of mostly women and children, destroying the food supplies, and killing or capturing many, including the aged Chief Moluntha who was soon murdered by one of Logan's men, reportedly in retaliation for the Battle of Blue Licks in the American Revolutionary War.  Moluntha had recently signed the Treaty of Fort Finney at the beginning of the year, and had raised an American flag over his lodge.  When Logan's force attacked, he had calmly surrendered himself and his family, holding a copy of the treaty as a testament to his peaceful relationship with the United States.  Militia Colonel Hugh McGary had participated in the Battle of Blue Licks in August 1782, and when the weak resistance offered by the Shawnee villagers had ended, he approached the elderly chief and asked if he had been present at the battle.  "Moluntha had not been there, but he misunderstood the question and seemed to indicate otherwise.  McGary, a hotheaded soldier whose irresponsibility had been a cause of that defeat, angrily felled the old chief with a hatchet and, as he tried to regain his feet, killed him with a second blow and scalped him."  Logan's Raid and the death of their chief angered the Shawnees, who retaliated by further increasing their attacks on the whites, escalating the war. HMS "Diligent" was a brig the Royal Navy purchased in 1777.  The Continental Navy captured her in May 1779 and took her into service as the USS "Diligent".  She then participated in the disastrous Penobscot Expedition where her crew her crew had to scuttled her in August to prevent the British from capturing her. HMS "Swan" was the lead ship in the 14-gun "Swan" class of ship sloops, to which design 25 vessels were built in the 1760s and 1770s; she was launched on 21 November 1767.  She bore the name HMS "Explosion" between 1779 and 1783 whilst being used as a fireship.  She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War before being laid up in 1801; she was sold for disposal in 1814. Vice-Admiral Robert Plampin (1762 – 14 February 1834), was a British Royal Navy officer during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, but best known for his time as commander of the British colony of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic during the period when former Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was imprisoned there.  Born into a Navy family, Plampin went to sea at age 13 and fought throughout the American Revolutionary War, based principally in the Caribbean Sea.  During the French Revolutionary Wars, Plampin served in a number of ships with mixed success, once being involved in a shipwreck and twice serving ashore during sieges.  After the Peace of Amiens, Plampin took command of the ship of the line HMS "Powerful" and operated successfully in the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.  In 1816, following the defeat and capture of the French Emperor, Plampin was placed in command of the squadron at the Cape of Good Hope, which also had responsibility for Saint Helena, which Plampin regularly visited and had numerous conversations with Napoleon. HMS "Atalanta" was a 14 gun ship sloop of the "Swan" class, launched on 12 August 1775.  She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War, and was then renamed HMS "Helena" in March 1797 before being sold for disposal in 1802. Major Moses Van Campen (1757–1849) was a soldier during the American Revolutionary War.  He was a prominent figure in Pennsylvania and parts of New York.  His primary involvement in the Revolutionary War was in fighting against hostile Native American tribes.  He began work as a soldier in 1775 and retired from military service in 1783.  Van Campen was familiar with Native American methods of warfare.  He also participated in the Sullivan Expedition in 1779. Captain Henry Inman (1762 – 15 July 1809) was a British Royal Navy officer during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, serving in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.  Inman's service in the American war was punctuated by three shipwrecks: the burning of HMS "Lark" off Rhode Island in the face of a superior French squadron, the grounding of HMS "Santa Monica" on Tortola and the foundering of "Hector" following an engagement with two French ships in the Mid-Atlantic.  After the war he was placed in reserve until the Spanish Armament of 1790, when he was given command of the 14-gun cutter HMS "Pygmy" stationed off the Isle of Man. Luke Day Jr. (July 21, 1743 – June 1, 1801) was an American military officer, revolutionary, and farmer, most well known for his leadership role in Shays' Rebellion, for which he was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death, before being pardoned by Governor John Hancock.  He was referred to as the "Master Spirit" of the insurrection, and was only passed over as overall leader in favor of Daniel Shays due to the perception of overzealousness on his part, by his men.  As a lieutenant, and then a captain, he served for eight years and participated in many key battles of the American Revolutionary War, including the Siege of Boston, Quebec Expedition, Battles of Saratoga, Cherry Valley massacre, Sullivan Expedition and Siege of Yorktown.  After the war, he joined the prestigious Society of the Cincinnati, which included the likes of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. William Brown (8 May 1764 – 20 September 1814) was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served in increasingly senior positions during a long period from the American Revolutionary War, including the French Revolutionary War, and until the Napoleonic Wars.  He began his naval career as a servant to Captain Philemon Pownoll in the frigate HMS Apollo and became a midshipman after two years.  He then served on HMS Resolution with Lord Robert Manners and came home with him in HMS Andromache.  He spent the next five years ashore in peacetime.  After a brief time on HMS Bounty he was taken off by the First lord and moved to HMS Ariel before the Bounty sailed.  He was then moved to HMS Leander, where he was commissioned by Admiral Peyton in 1788.  He later captained a series of ships serving in the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the Channel Fleet and then the Mediterranean, again with lord St Vincent.  He captained HMS Ajax in the Blockade of Brest and the Battle of Cape Finisterre and then at Cadiz at Nelson's personal request.  After Trafalgar he had a series of shore postings as Dockyard Commissioner at Malta and Shearness before being made Commander in Chief of the Channel Islands and then Jamaica where he died.
Answer: Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay