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and the Selectmen gave orders the warrants Should be Immediately Drawn and Delivered to the Constables that the meeting Should be warn'd accordingly
at a general Town meeting of the Votable Inhabitants of the Town of Concord began and held at the Town house in Said Town on Friday the fifth Day of July 1776
Ephraim wood Jun" Was Chosen moderator of Said meeting
Then the Question was put whether the Town would grant any Sum for the Purpas mentioned in the article in the warrant and it pase'd in the affirmative Several Sums was propossed but Seven pounds to Each Persons who Should So Inlist. in to Said Service for their further Encouragement was Put to vote and it passed in the affirmative
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Voted that the Sun to be Raise for Said Purpas be Raise by tax on the Inhabitants of Said Town and that the assessor have the advice of the three militia Captains for the equal Distribution of Said tax-
voted that the Selectmen be Impowered to Borrow the money for the Immediate pay- ment of the Soldiers as Soon as they Shall Sulist 1
and the meeting was dismiss's by the moderator 176 karl, 25/ July W. 25 1776 The Selectmen of the Town of Concord met and appointed a Town meet- ing to be held at the Town house in Said Town on Monday the twenty ninth Day of this Instant July at one o'clock in the afternoon to Consider and act on the following article
To See if the Town will grant the Same Bounty to those men (and those only) who shall in to the Continental Service. now orded for to be Raised as a Reinforce- ment against Canada which number was eight) as the Town did those of the Last Levy Destined their, or act otherwise as the Town Shall Think Proper
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Voted to give those who Shall Inlist into the Continental Service Seven Pounds Each (as an addition to what the Coloney has given) as a Bounty - as was given to those of the Last Levy Destined to Cannada
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and the meeting was Dismissed by the moderator - 176 October yt 7th Then paid Und: mary Harris by an order to Mr. Bond Town Treasurer for Supporting her mother from the 21 of February to the 13th of June Last 16 weeks two pounds two Shillings & Eight Rence
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176 October y. 7th Then paid mrs. mary Brown by an order to Mr. Bond Town Treasurer for her Keeping School in Buttricks Society
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176 October y 7th Then paid mrs. mary Soper by an order to Mr. Bond Town Treasurer 5.9.0
for her Keeping School in the middle of the Town five pounds nine Shillings
Mro. Mary Browse 176 (4 7 Keeper a 5chrmint 4. Bu thich's Sockets
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at a general Town meeting of the votable Inhabitants of the Town of Concord Leagaly warn'd Began and held at the Town house In Said Town on Monday the 29th Day of July 1776
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TEXT 1776 October y: 10th then paid the wife of Joseph Barns by an order to Mr. Bond Town Treas-$1.1.0 wer for keeping Same Bloods Law" twelve weeks to the Seventh of October Twenty one Shillings-
all Buttrack 16 Oct 14 176 October y: 14th them Paid mr. abel Buttrick by an order to Mr. Bond Town Treasurer for Boarding Lucy Hunt from the 21st of October 1775 to the 5th of May 1776 28 weeks at 1/6 per week two pounds two Shill of Seven & a peny for Clothing
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76 Sepet 16 Concord Sept 4: 16th 1776 the Selectmen of the Town of Concord met and appointed a Town meeting to be held in the Town House in Said Town on 5.2. 19 Thursday the nineteenth Day of September Instant at two O'clock in the afternoon to Con- sider and act on the following articles viz-
First to See if the Town will Chuse a Committee to Supply the Pulpit in the absence of the Reva mr. Um. Emerson now in the army
Secondly to See if the Town will Raise a Sum of money for the purpose of suppling the Pulpit
Thirdly To See if the Town will order a Grammer School to be kept till further order, and if Con; cluded in the affirmative then to See if the Town will make addition to the Sun Raised Last may for Schooling for the Said purpas
and the Selectmen gave orders that the warrants Should be Drawn for Said meet- ing that the Same might be warned accord- ingly
at a meeting of the Votable Inhabitants of the Town of Concord Leagaly warned on Thursday the nineteenth day of September 1776 at the Town house in Said Town Voted as follows
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voted on the first article to Chuse a Committee to Consist of five to Supply the Pulpit in the absence of mr. Emerson in the army the was Chosen as follows viz Capt Jonas Heywood
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voted to Pospone the Raising of any money for the Supplying the Pulpit to Some future meeting
and as to a Grammer School the Town by their vote Determined not for the Present to have any grammer School
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The True Proceeding of the above meeting att. Ephraim Wood Town Clerk
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TEXT Concord October y: 8th 1776
The Selectmen of the Town of Concord met and Persuant to a Resolver of the House of Repre- sentatives of this State appointed a meeting of the Inhabitants of Said Town on monday the fourteenth of october Instant at one o' Clock in the afternoon to Consider and act on the following article viz -
To See if the Town will by their vote give their Consent that the Present House of Repre- sentatives of this State, together with the Councel in one Body, & with equal voice, agree on and Enact a Constitution or form of. goverment for this State - and to See if the Town will Direct that the Same may be made Publick for the Perusal of the Inhabitants of this of other Towns before the Ratification there of by Said assembly -
and the Selectmen ordered that the warrants Sho'd be Drawn as Soon as may be that Said meeting Should be warned accordingly
at a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Inhabitants of the Town of Concord above the age of twenty one years being free Leagaly warned as appears by the Returns on the warrants for Said meeting on monday the fourteenth Day October Currant at two o'clock in the afternoon - Ephraim; Wood Jun" Was Chosen moderator -
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did not So Generaly attend as Could be wished, it was motioned that the meeting Should be adjourned for further Consideration of the above Question untill monday twenty first Day of this Instant october at two o'clock in the afternoon, Percisly and that the Inhabitants of the Town Should again be notified by the minister the next Lords Day after Divine Service is over of the meetings being adjourned and ask their Punctual at: tendance at Laid adjournment-
which motion was put to a vote and it passed. in the affirmative and the meeting was accordingly adjourned to the time above mentioned att" Eph" wood Je. Town Clerk
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TEXT at a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Concord being free and Twenty one years of age and upwards upon ajournment on the twenty first day of October 1776
Ephraim Wood Jun" being moderator
of Representatives Voted unanimously that the Present House is not a proper Body to form a constitution for this State
and Voted to Chuse a Committee of five men to make answer to the Question Proposed by the House of Representatives of this state, and to give the Reasons why the Town thinks them not a Suitable body for that Purpas the persons following was Chosen the Com tee above mentioned vis Ephraim wood fun", mª Nathan Bond Coli James Barrett, Col. John Buttrick, and James Barrett Esq"
and the Committee Reported the following Draft which being Read Several times over for Consideration it then was Read Resolve by Resolve and accepted unanimously in a very full Town meeting - the Reasones are as follows's -
Resolved 1 st that this State being at Present destitute of a properly established form of Government, it is absolutely necessary that one Should be immediately formed and establish- ed
Resolvi d- Secondly that the Supreme Legis- lative, Either in their proper Capacity or in Joint Committee are by no means a Body
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Proper to form & Establish a Constitution of form of government for Reasons following viz first Because we Conceive that a Constitution In its proper Idea intends a System of Principals established to Secure the Subject in the Possession of, and Enjoyment of their Rights & Privilèges against any encrouchment of the governing 9 Part. Secondly Because the Same Body that forms a Constitution have of Consequence a power to alter it- thirdly Because a Constitution alterable by the Supreme Legislative is no Security at all to the Subject against the encrouchment of the governing part on any or on all their Rights and Privilèges
Resolved thirdly that it appears to the Town highly expedient that a Convention of Congress be immediately Chosen to form and establish a Constitution; by the Inhabitants of the Respective
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Respective Towns in this State being free and Twenty one years and upward, in Proportion as the Representative of this State ware formerly Chosen; the Convention of Congress not to Consist of a greater number then the house of assembly of this State here to fore might Consist of except that Each Town & District Shall have Liberty to Send one Representative; or other- wise as Shall appear meet to the Inhabitants of this state in general
Resolved 4ty That when the Convention on Congress have formed a Constitution, they adjourn for a short time, and Publish their Proposed Constitution for the Inspection and Remarks of the Inhabitants of this state-
Resolved oly That the How the House of assembly of this State be Desired to Recommend it to the Inhabitants of the State to Proceed to Chuse a Convention, or Congress for the Purpas above mentioned as Soon as Possible
Signed by order of the Committee Ephraim Wood Su Chairman and the meeting was Desolved by the moderator
In Congress July y 4 th 1776 a Declaration By the Representatives of united States of america in General Congress assembled-
When in the Course of human Events it Becomes necessary for one People to Desolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the Seperate & Equal Station to
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which the Laws of nature and of nature" god entitles them a Decent Respect to the oppinions of mankind requires that they Should Declair the causes which empel them to the seperation
We hold the truths to be self- evident that all men are Created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with Certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life Liberty and the Persuit of happyness- that to Secure these Rights, governments are In- stituted among men, Deriving their Just Powers from the Consent
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of the Governed , that when ever any forms of Gover- ment becomes Destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter, or to abolish it, and to Institute new government Laying its foundation on Such Principals, and organizing its Powers in Such form, as to them Shall Seem most Likely to effect their Safty + happyness, Prudence Indeed, will Dictate That governments Long Established Should not be Changed for light and Transient Causes; and accordingly all experiance hath Shown that mankind are more Disposed to Suffer, while evils are Sufferable, then to Right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are acustom- ed. But when a Long Train of abuses and usurpations, Persuing envariably the Same object, evinces a Design to Reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty to throw off Such Gover- ment, and to Provide new guards for their future Security. Such has been the Patient Sufferance of these Coloneys; and Such is now the is now the necessity which Constrains them to alter their former Systems of government. The History of the Present King of great Britain is a History of Repeated Injuries + usurpations, all having in Direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To Prove this, let facts be Submitted to a Candid would
He has Refused his assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessary for the Publick good He has forbiden his governers to Pass Laws of Immediate of Pressing Importance, unless Suspended in their apperation untill his assent Should be obtained; and when So
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Suspended, he has uterly neglected to attend to them He has Refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of Large Destricts of People, unless those People would Relinquish the Rite of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them , and formidable to Tyrants
He has Called together Legislative Bodyes at places unusual, uncomfortable, and Distant from the Depository of their Publick
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Publick Records, for the Sole purpose of fatiguing them into a Compliance with his measures He has Disolved Representative houses Repeatedly for opposing with manly Firmness his In- various on the Rights of the People
He has Refused for a Long time, after Such Disolutions to cause others to be elected whereby the Legislative Powers in capable of annihilation, have returned to the People at Large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all Dangers of invasion from with out, and Conversions within -
He has endeavoured to Prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws of naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to Pass others to encourage their migration hither, and Raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands
He has obstructed the administration of Justice, by Refusing his assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers
He has made Judges dependant on his will alone, for the Tenure of their offices, and the amount and Payment of their Sallarys.
He has erected a multitude of new offices and Sent hither Swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their Substance
He has kept among us in time of Peace, Standing armies without the Consent of our Legislature
He affected to render the military Independant of, and Superior to the Civil Power
He has Combined with others to Subject
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Cutting off our Trade Imposing Taxes without end
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent For
us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws, giving his Pretended assent to their acts of, Legislation
For Protecting them, by a mock Tryal, from Punishment for any murders which they Should Comment on the Inhabitants of these States
For cutting of four Traide with all parts of the world
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For Depriving us, in many cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury For Transporting us beyound Seas to be Tried for Pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, Establishing Therein an arbitrary goverment, and enlarging its Boundaries So as to Render it at once and example and fit Instrument for Introducing The Same absolute Rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundament. aly the forms of our governments
For Suspending our own Legislatures, and Declaring themselves vested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever He has abdicated goverment here, by Declareing us out of his Protection and waging war against us. He has Plundered our Sea, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and Destroyed the Lives of our People
He is at this Time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to Compleat the work of Death, alisolation and Tyranny. altering already began with Circonstances of Cruelty and Perfidy Scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totaly unworthy the head of a Civilized nations
He has Constrained our fellow citizens, taken Captive on the high Seas to bear arms against their Country; to become the executioners of their friends and Brethern, or to fall themselves by their hands He has excited Domestic Insurrections
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TEXT amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of war- fare is an undistinguished Destruction of all ages, Sexes, and Conditions
In every stage of these oppressions we petitioned for Redress in the most Humble Terms : our repeated Petitions have been answered only by Repeated Injury! - a Prince whose Corrector is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant is unfit to be a Ruler of a Free People !-
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how have we Been wanting in attention to our British Brethern.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their Legislature to extend and univarrantable Jurisdiction over us. we have reminded them of the Circonstances of our emigration, and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice, and magnani- mity, and we have conjured by the ties of our Common Kindred to Disavow these We surpations, which would inevitably interrupt our Connexions & Correspondance
They too have been Deaf to the voice of Justice & of Consanguinity We must, therefore acquiesce in the necessity which Denounces our Seperation, and hold" them as we hold the Rest of mankind Enemies in War: in Peace, friends
We therefore, the Representatives of the united States of america in General Congress assembled, appealing to the SUPREME JUDG of the World for the Rectude of our Intentions do in the name and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, Solemnly "Publish, and Declare, that these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Indipendant" States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all Political Connexions between them and the State of great Britian is, and ought to be Totaly disolved; and that as free and Independant States, they have full Power to Levy war, Conclude Peace, Contract alliances, Establish Commerce, and to Do all other acts, and things which Independant States may have Right to Do, and for the Support
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of this Declaration, with a Firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence we mu = tualy Pledge to each other our Lives and Fortunes and our Sacred Honours Signed by order and Behalf of the Congress John Hancock President att: Charles Thompson Secretary
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TEXT In Councel July yt. 17the 1776
Ordered, that the Declaration of Independence be Printed and a Coppy Sent to the ministers of each Parrish, of every Denomination within this State; and that they Severaly be Required to Read the Same to their respective Congrega- Tion as Soon as Divine Service is ended in the afternoon on the first Sabbath after they Shall Receive the Same- and after the Publication thereof to Deliver the Said Declaration to the Clerks of their Several Towns, or Districts; who are hereby Required to Record the Same in their Respective Town, and Destrict Books, these to Remain as a Perpetual memorial thereof
R. Darby President In the name, and by order of the Councel a True Coppy att" John avery Lep* Sec-
Concord november y: 5 1776 the Selectmen met and appointed a Town meeting to be held in the Town house in Said Town on monday the Eleventh Day of november Instant at one o'clock in the afternoon to Consider fact on the following articles vz -
First To See what method the Town will take, now in our Present Destitute State as to a minister to Supply the Pulpet, and to act on Said a fair as the Town Shall think proper
Secondly to See if the Town will pay the Charges already arisen by the Rend mr. William Emersows Sickness of Death at the Rend Mr.
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Roots of auter- Check, and for the Journey of Mr. allin to take Care of Mr. Emerson
Thirdly to See if the Town will take the Dificult Circonstances that mre Emerson is Lift in, into Consideration and in Some way grant her Some Relief
and the Selectmen gave orders that the warrants Should be Drawn that the meeting Should be warned accordingly-
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at a general Town meeting of the votable In- habitants of the Town of Concord began and held at the Town house in Said Town on monday the ninth Day of november in the year of our Lord 1776 Proceeded as follows
Ephraim wood Jun" Was Chosen moderator
Voted on the first article To Cheese a Committee of five new to Supply the Pulpet namly Cap t David Brown, Dr. Thomas Barrett, Mr. Job Brooks Col: James Barrett of mr. abyjah Bond
Voted on the Second article not to Pay the Charges arisen by Reason of the Rev& hvs. Um. Emerson" Sickness of Death at Present But Chose a Committee of three men to Search in to that affair and if Possible to have Said Charges Reimbusted by the Publick Said Committee was Col: Cuming his Joseph How * Ephraim Wood Ju
Voted on the third article when taking the Dificult Circonstances that Is Emerson is Left in the Town Cheerfully Voted that the Sallary of m" Emerson Should go on for Six months after his Death for the advantage of his Family
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17 January ye 7 th 1777 Then paid In Lucy Jones by an order to hur. Bond Town Treasurer for her keeping School in the East Society 3 pounds Seven Shillings + 8 pence
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