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JOSEPH ALLEN Town
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At a Leagel Town Meeting Leagly Warned and hild at the Cort house In Tisbury on Thurdsday the Twelveth Day of Aprel 1770 at 3 of the Clock in the after Non In order to Vote the following Particulers furst to See If the Town would grant the Remitting Some Parsons Rats Who Ware Dade and Stephen Luce Was Chosen Modrater of Sd Meeting and the Town Voted that the Slectmen Should take the mater into Considra- tion and alow them as they Shall See Fit Like Wise Voted that Abiah Coy Be Implyed to keep the Town Chool the yeare In Suing Entred this Twelveth Day of Aprel 1770 Pr me
JOSEPH ALLEN Town Clerk
Tisbury ss at a Leagle Town Meeting Warned and hild at the Cort house In Sd Tisbury on Fryday the Forteenth Day of Dcember In order to Consider and See What money the Town Should See Fit to Rase to Defray the Town Charges the Insuing yeare and In the Furst Place Decon Stephen Luce was Chosen Modrater of Sd Metting 2 ly It Was Put to Vote Whether one Hundred and Twenty Pounds Should Be Rased to Defray the Town Charges and The Vote Pased In the afarmitive Entred this 14 dy of Dcember 1770 By Me JOSEPH ALLEN Town Clerk
Tisbury January 28 !! 1771 Whareas we the Subcribers heareunto With Benjamin Allen and Shoble Cottle Was Chosen by the Town to See that the Carpender Work on Sd Meeting house in Sd Tisbury Was Dun according to Bargen and also to Git the Meeting house Plastred it Being Late in the yeare Before Sd Work Was Dun It Made it Dificult to Git It Plastred Benjam Allen Being Absent from home and Cottle Refus- ing to act in in the affare We a Gread With Elijah Look to take the Lime and and Nales and Laths att the Price agreed for and to Plaster Sd house forthwith If the Weather Would a Low of it for forty Six Pounds thir- teen shillings and fore Pence Which Sd Look Preformed on his Part Now We Desire the town to order Sd Look his Money
agreed for Pr GERSHOM CATHCART
NOAH LOOK Commity
We the Subcribers Protest Aganst the above Agreement Being two of the Committiy Refered to a Bove We having Mad our obiectons Before the Work Was Done to the Men that Ware at Work & Implyed By the other two Committey men Benjman allen Shoble Cottle this furst Day of Febueary 1771
Entred on Record By JOSEPH ALLEN Town Clerk
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Tisbury ss at a Leagel Town Meeting Leagly Worned and hild at the Cort house In Sd Tisbury on Fryday the furst Day of Febreuay at Two of the Clock in the after Noon In Order to Recve the Report of the Towns Committey Relating to their Plastering the Meeting House In Tisbury and Like Wise then to Pass Such Votes as Shall Be Thought Proper their on Relative to Said Committy Report 1ly Jeams Athearn Esquire Was Chosen Modrater of Said Meeting Two of the Committi Made Report viz: Gerhon Cathcart & Noah Look the Other Two Vizt Benjamin Allen & Shubel Cottle Entred their Protest a Gainst the Re- ports then a Vote Was Called to know Whether they Would accept the Peport of Two of Sd Committe & the Vote Pased in negative A Vote Was then Called to Se if the Town Would Allow the Reasonable De- mands of those Persons Who did the Lathing and Plastring the Said Meeting house in Tisbury they Bringing In their Accounts & It Pased In the Affarmative Benjamin Lumbart A Pointed to Informe the Labours of the Town Vote and Sd meeting Was Adjourned to Tusday ye 5 Instant Febuary 1th 1771 Entred By me
JOSEPH ALLEN Town' Clerk
At Sd Adjornment Met and Continued Said Meeting By Adjorn- ment to Fryday the 15 Instant at 5 of the Clock In the after Noon at the house of Samuel Cobb In Tisbury
JOSEPH ALLEN Town Clerk
At A Town Meeting Leagly Worned and hild at the county county house In tisbury on Mundy the forth Day of March A D 1771 In order to Chuse Sume Suttable Parson to apear in the Towns Beharlf in the furst Place Jeams Athearn Esqre was Chosen Modrater 2! it Was Put to Vote Whether Jeams Athern Esq' .. Should apeare In the towns Beharlf at the Infeare Cort to be holden at Edgertown in order to Defend the town aganst a Persentment found a Ganst Sd Town for not keeping Scool in Sd town from Arel to october in the yeare 1768
JOSEPH ALLEN Town Clerk
At a Town Meeting Leagly Worned and hild at the Town house in Tisbury On Munday The 4th Day of March A D 1771 To Act in the Sev- erel Parragrafts Set forth In In the Warrant and Notification the Pre- ceding folloing Vots Ware Pased in the furst Place Jeams Athearn Esq. Was Chosen Moderater then A Vote was Called to Se if the Town Would
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give order for the Slectmen to Direct the Treasure to Pay Elijah Look the Sum of Forty Six Pounds thirteen Shillings and fore Pence for his Serves in Lathing and Plastring the Meeting house in Tisbury & it Pased In the Negative 2ndly a Vote was Called to Make choice of James Atharn Esq" Mass's Abijah Athearn and Noah Look to be a Committey In Beharlf of Sd town to Defend any Sut that may Be Comenced a Ganst sd town or that is all Comenced as Allso to agree With Said Elijah Look for the ABove said Service Either by Payment of any Sum of Money or By Reffering the Same Controvercy to the Judgment of Indiffernt Men and it Pased in the Affirmative Entred this 5 Day of March A D 1771 Pr me
JOSEPH ALLEN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town Meeting Legally Warn'd Assembel'd and held at the Town house in Tisbuary on Monday the Eleventh Day of March in the year A D : 1771. In Order for the choice of Town Officers, And James Athearn Esq! was chosen Moderator of Said meeting, Then the following Town Officers were chosen by Vote to Serve in their Respec- tive offices in the Town of Sd Tisbuary for the Ensuing year, Viz Ezra Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk, Stephen Luce Ezra Athearn & Joseph Allen Select Men, Benjamin Allen Town Treasurer, Thomas Walrond Constable, Seth Daggett and Jeremiah Manter Wardens, Ransford Smith" Barnard Case Barnbas Luce & Hezekiah Luce were chosen Surveyers of highweys Thomas Allen David Merrey Tything Men, and John Luce & William Luce Fence Viewers, Seth Barstow Peter West Surveyers of Lumber Daniel Dunham Enoch Luce hog reves EZRA ATHEARN T Clerk
Then Said Meeting was adjorn'd to Monday the 25th Day of Said March for that the Above Said Thomas Walrond not being at Said Meet- ing to Declare his Acceptance nor Refusale to Serve the Town of Said Tisbuary in the Office of Constable for the Ensuing year and on the Twenty fifth of Sd March met met And at Said meeting the Present Constable made a return that the Afore Said Thomas Walrond Refus'd to Serve the Town of Tisbuary in the Ofice of Constable the Ensuing year, Then at Said Meeting Jethro Athearn Jun" Was Chosen by Vote to Serve Said Town in the Office of Constable and being at Sd Meeting Declaid his Acceptance to Serve Said Town therein for the Ensuing year, Entred this 25th Day of march A D 1771
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
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Tisbuary ss : At A Town-Meeting Legally warn'd Assembled and held at the Town house in Sd Tisbuary on Thursday ye Nineteenth Day of Septr A D 1771 in Order to See if Said Town would Vote any Allow- ance to the People of Checamoo to Build or Rebuild a School-house and at Said Meeting it Was Voted to the People of Checemoo in the Consta- blerick of Tisbuary To be Reimbusted to them to Rebuild or Repair their Schoolhouse So much Monney as they Paid in Taxes to Repair the School=house in Said Tisbuary and Each Party to Repair their School houses hereafter and Also the above Said Meeting was to Chuse a Com- mittee to See & keep the Personage house in Tisbury in Repair And ME Joseph Allen & M" Benjamin Lumbert were Chosen for that purpose, and at Said Meeting it was Voted that 1201. Lawfull Monney Should be Raised by a Tax to Defray the Necesary Charges arising on Sd Town the Ensuing Year Entred this 19th Day of Sept A D 1771
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town=Meeting Legally Warn'd and held at the Town=house in Tisbuary on Monday ye 30th of December A D 1771 in Order to See Whether the Inhabitants of the Town of Tisbuary would Vote an additional Sum of Monney to be Rais'd by a Tax on the Inhabi- tants of Sd Tisbuary to Defray the Necessary Charges Arising on the Town of Tisbuary the Present year and at Said Meeting 20ty Pounds Lawfull Monney was Put to Vote and the Vote Passed in the Affirmative
Tisbuary Sep: 30th A D 1771 the Above Recorded by me EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : Att an Anaversary March Meeting Legally warnd and held at the Town : house in Tisbuary on Tuesday ye 24th Day of March A D 1772 in Order for the Choice of Town officers for the Ensuing year, And at Said Meeting Deacon Stephen Luce was Chosen Moderator and then the following Officers were chosen by the Majority of Voters then present Viz : Ezra Athearn Town Clerk Stephen Luce Ezra Athearn Joseph Allen Select Men, Benjamin Allen Town Treasurer, Shobel Cottle Barnard Case Job Look John Luce Samuell Mott Surveyers of High= weys, Jonathan Manter James Manter Tything=men, Abijah Athearn Jeremiah Manter Fence Viewers, Robert Cithcart John Mansfield Sealers of Leather, Peter West Josiah Luce Surveyers of Lumber, Edey Manter Daniel Dunham Enoch Luce Hogreves, Jeremiah Manter Pound=keeper, Isiah Grey was Chosen Constable, Then Said Meeting was Adjornd to Tuesday ye 7th of April following & then mett and at Said Meeting Jethro
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Athearn Junr was Chosen to Serve for and in the Place of a Constable for Said Grey and Six pence on the Pound, was Voted Said Athearn for Col- lecting the Towns monney for the year and Said meeting was disolv'd
Dated at Tisbuary April ye 7th 1772 pr EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss at A Town=Meeting Legely Warn'd and held at the Townhouse in Tisbuary on Thisday ye 84 of October A D 1772 at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in Order to Consider and to Vote So much monney as then Should be thought Nesesary to Defray Said Tisbuary's Town=Charges the year Ensuing and at Said Meeting 120 L was Put to Vote & the Vote passed in the Affirmative
Dated at Tisbuary October y& Eighth day A D : 1772 EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At an Anaversary March=Meeting held in Sd Tisbuary at the Townhouse on Wednesday ye 17th of March A D : 1773 and James Athearn Esq! was Chosen Moderator of Said Meeting which was for the choice of All Such Town officers as the Law Requires to be Chosen Annu- ally, And firstly Ezra Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk, Stephen Luce Joseph Allen Ezra Athearn were Chosen Select - Men, John Luce Consta- ble, Benjamin Allen Town Treasurer, Seth Look Thomas Allen Elijah Look Fence=Viewers, Thomas Daggett Tho Winston & Nathan Smith Surveyers of Highweys, Benjamin Crowell Russel Hancock & William Rotch and David Merrey wardens Noah Look Benjamin Lumbert Over- seers of the Poor, Jeremiah Manter Sam" Crowell Hogreves, Josiah Luce and Isaac Dagett Surveyers of Lumber, Robert Cithcart & John Mans- field Sealers of Leather, then Said meeting was Adjornd to the Last Tuesday of March Instant at four of the Clock afternoon
Tisbuary Dated March y - 17 : A D : 1773 EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : Then the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of Tisbuary meet at the Townhouse in Tisbuary on the AboveSaid day and time and the Abovesaid John Luce Personally Appeared and Declar'd his Non- acceptance of the office of Constable Then Samuell Look was Chosen Constable to Serve in the Town of Tisbuary for ye Ensuing year, and also Barnard Case was Chosen an Overseer of ye Poor, Then Sd meeting was Adjornd to Tuesday the Sixth Day of April Ensuing at Four of the Clock afternoon Tisbuary March ye 30th A D : 1773
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
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Tisbuary ss At an Anaversary March Meeting held at the Town house in Tisbuary on wensday the 17 day of March A D : 1773 and Continu'd by adjornments to April the 6th at four of ye Clock in the Afternoon & then met and at Sd. Meeting Elijah Look was Chosen Constable to Serve in the Room and for the abovesaid Look and for ye Ensuing year
Tisbuary April ye 6th 1773 EZRA ATHEARN T Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Townmeeting Legaly warnd and held at the Town- house in Tisbuary on Tuesday ye 30th of March 1773 in Order to Chuse a comitte to Settle accompts with the Town Treasurer for the year 1772 & the Select Men of Sª Tisbuary ware Chosen for the purpose and in sd warrant for ye abovesaid meeting it was Inserted for to Chuse Some Person to take Care of Sd Tisbuarys Meeting house in all Respects, and Jeremiah Manter was Chosen for Sweeping Shutting Doors and mending windows all for the Ensuing year at the Towns cost
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
At a Townmeeting Legally warn'd and held at the Townhouse in Tisbuary on Tuesday the Twenty first day of December 1773 and at Sd Meeting and Agreeable to the Warrant. it was Voted that 130. Lawful £ Monney Should be Raised in Order to Defray the Town of Tisbuary's Charges the Ensuing year; and Also it was Voted that Elijah Look Should be a Committee'sman to take Care & keep the Meetinghouse and Schoolhouse in repair Recorded by EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Att an Anaversary March Meeting held at the courthouse in Tisbuary on Wednesday the ninth Day of March A D : 1774 in Order to chuse all Such Town officers as is by Law Required to be Chosen in the month of March annually, And at Said Meeting Ezra Athearn was chosen Modera- tor Then the Persons herein after named ware chosen by Vote to Serve in their Pespective offices in the Town of Tisbuary for the Ensuing year Viz Ezra Athearn Town Clerk, Stephen Luce Joseph Allen Ezra, Athearn Select Men Benjamin allen Town Treasurer, Thomas Look Russel Han- cock Over Seers of the Poor, Nathan Smith Constable, Abijah Athearn Matthew Luce fence Viewers Peter West & Josiah Luce Surveyers of Lumber, Robert Cithcart Leather Sealer David Merrey Tything=man, Matthias Rogers and Cornelus Norton hogreavs, Then Said meeting was adjorn'd to wensday the 23ª of March Instant Recorded by Ezra Athearn
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Town Clerk and Also at Said Meeting it was Voted that no goats Should goe at Large in the Township of Tisbury for the Future Either Winter or Summer and at the Above Said meeting Russel Hancock and Joseph Merrey ware chosen Surveyers of highways and at the Adjornment of the abovesaid meeting Benja Manter & Thomas Allen was Chosen Wardeans for ye Ensuing year
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town Meeting Warn'd & held by the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of Tisbuary At the Courthouse in Said Tisbuary on Wednesday the 19th Day of October A D 1774 at two of the clock in the afternoon in Order to Chuse a Committee for the Town of Tisbuary to Correspond with the Committee of Each Town in Dukes County and the Committees of our Province And at Said Meeting Mr Joseph Allen was chosen Moderator And then it was put to Vote to See wheather James Athearn Esq" Shobal Cottle Esqr M" Benjamin Allen Mr Abijah Athearn & M' Benjamin Burges Should be the Said Committee & the Vote passed in the Affirmative And Then the Above Said Committee was Impowred by a Vote to meet the Committees of the Other Towns in Dukes County to Sit in A County Congress to form Such resolves and doe Such things as they in their wisdom Shall think propper to bedone Reletive to our Publick affairs And then Sd Meeting was Adjorn'd to the Second Day of November following
Tisbuary October 19th 1774
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
At A Town-meeting of the Freeholders & Other Inhabitants of the Town of Tisbuary Held by Adjornment at the Court-house in Sd Tisbuary on the Second Day of November A D 1774 Mr Joseph Allen being Mod- erator, upon Mo tion made it was put to Vote whether Mr Elisha West Should be A Committee-man to Joyn the Above Said Committee and the Vote passed in Affirmative And Then Said Meeting was Adjorn'd to the Sixth Day of December following for to Recieve the Report of the Said Towns Committee, Tisbuary November ye Second Day 1774 EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
For Value Reced of the Subscriber do Promise to Pay or Cause to be paid unto Jethro Butler Twenty Six pounds thirteen Shillings & four
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pence at or before the Twenty Eighth Day of November Next ensuing and if Not paid then Intrest till paid as witness my hand this Twenty eighth day of november A D 1774
ELIAKIM NORTON
Entred on the Town book of Records in Tisbuary April ye 19th A D 1775
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town meeting held at the Courthouse in Tisbuary by Adjornment on Tuesday the Sixth day of December AD 1774 to Recieve the report of the Above Said Committee and at Said Meeting the hereafter Recorded resolves were read Examined & Unamimously Voted by the Inhabitants of Said Town And Ordered to be Recorded on the Town Book
Tisbuary December ye 6th AD 1774 Attest, EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
At A Convention of the Committees of the Several Towns in the County of Dukes County in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay : Held by Adjornment at Tisbuary in Said County on the 9th of November 1774 The Said Committee after Serious Consideration of the unhappy State of the Province in general & of Said County in Particular; by means of Certain Acts of the Brittish Parliment more especialy A Late Act Entituled an Act for the better Regulating the goverment of the province of the Massachusetts Bay : Resolved as follows That by the Emigration of Our Ancestors from great Brittain into the parts of America of which the Province of the Massachusetts Bay consists : When thare ware Uncultivated Regions Inhabited only by wild Beasts and Savages in human form : by their Establishing them selves here at their own great expence Submitting to and Enduring with most Remarkable fortitude and Patience the most grevious Toils and hardships. Amidst the greatest dangers : by the great cost and labour of the People of this province Clearing Incosing & Cultivating their Lands here (After a fair purchas hereof of the Indian Propriators) And in Erecting Nessecary & Conveniant Buildings thereon : And by this Peoples Defending at A Vast Expence of their Blood and Treasure their Possesions and Properties thus Aquired.
The Territories Included within this Province which would Other- wise have belonged to no Prince or Princes but Indian Sachems; or
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which would have been much worse for Great Brittain would have been Possessed by the Subjects of Some Rival European Prince or State) Are now with but verry Little if any Expence to the Crown or People of Brittain become a verey Valluable Part of the Dominions of the Brittish Monorch which from the first Peopeling thereof by his Subjects hath been Continually Increasing in vallue to the Vaste and growing Emolu- ment of the Crown and People of ye Mother country by A Great Increas of the Trade & commerce and Naval Powers ly 2 That therefore (to Say nothing) Concerning the Just Tittle of the ancient collony of the Massachusetts Bay : To the Libertys and Prive- ledges they at first enjoyed : by Virtue of A Royal Charter which was unjustly Vacated : and which they ware Unreasonally denied a Restora- tion off. The People of this Province were Antecedently to the Charter Granted then by King William & Queen Mary and Still are by A Right dearly aquired by their Predecessors and themselves Justly Intituled to at least all the Liberties Priveledges Franchises & Imunities as well as to any of ye Lands Granted by Said Charter 31y That the Late Act of Par- liment Attempting an Alteration of our constitution and a violation of Our Charter (Without our being heard or even Cited to appear in defence thereof) is therefore Unconstitutional Unrighteous & Cruel Act or Power. Justly Alarming to us as being manifestly designed to wrest from us our most valluable & dearly bought rights which we have no ways forfited And threatning us with all the Wretchedness of Subjection to Arbitary & Despotick Goverment and A State of Abject Slavery : To Say nothing aboute the Impolicy of Said Act as being Detremental to the Mother countery
4ly. That therefore we will not Submit to. but to the utmost of our power in all Just and propper ways Oppose the Execution of yt Unjust and unconstitutional Act and do recomend the Same Resolute Opposition thereto to the People of this county
5ly That no Power or Authority in any ways derived from Said Act of Parliment ought to be Submitted to by any belonging to this County or to be in any way Owned to be Constitutionall : And that when any Man Shall Accept of an Appointment to any Civil Office here : in Con- formity to Said Unconstitutionall act and Shall pretend to Exercise any Power or Authority by Virtue thereof he Ought to be in no ways Sup- ported or countenanced therein but Ought to be considred and treated as one Acting by A pretended Outhority only And as an Enemy to his country
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6ly That the before mentioned Charter of this Province and the Laws of the Province founded thereon are all of them Constitutionall good and Valid; anything contained in Said act of Parliment to the contrary notwithstanding
7ly That all civil officers in this county holding commissions by an Appointment agreable to Said charter are when Sworn as the Law Directs Legally & constitutionaly Authorized to act in their Respective offices According to their Respective commissions and the Laws of this Province and Ought to be Supported in thus Acting, by the People of. the County
gly the Jurors Ought to be chosen and returned in this County in no other manner then According to the directions of the Laws of this Prov- ince with regard to grand & Pettit Jurors respectively
gly That Town-meetings ought to be held in this county as hath been Usual according to the Directions of the Laws of this Province; And that All grants of Monney made: and all Votes passed in such Meetings agreeable to Said Laws Ought to be considered as good and binding the Said Meeting be Otherwise Called then the Aforesa'd act of Parliment directs, and all Persons who Shall avail themselves of that act in refusing to pay their Proportion of Monney thus granted will by the regard they Shew to that Oppressive act aid and abbet the Enemies of their Countery 1 in Voilating its Just rights Laws and Liberties,
10ly Wee advise the Constables Collectors & Other officers in this county who have or Shall have Monney in their Hands belonging to the Province that thay pay in the Same according to the direction Lately given them by the Provincial Congress or by A Constitutional house of Representatives
11ly With regard to non Importation non Consumption and non Exportation of goods wares and Merchendizes we Earnestly recommend to the People of this county a Strict. Conformity of their Conduct & Practice to the Resolutions & Advice of the Late Grand American Congress
12thly And Finally With respect to the State of Embarrasment this Province is in by reason of the Late act of Parlement for altering our Constitution, we Earnestly Recomend it to the People of this County that they take no advantage of any Difficulties attending the Adminis- tration of Justice in the Present Unhappy State of our Publick Affairs : And that they Refrain themselves from all Violations and Mobbish Pro- ceedings and from all Acts of unlawfull Outrages and Voiolences; and
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from every kind of Injustice and that they be carefull to render to all their dues : and behave themselves in a Quiet Peacable & Orderly man- ner Shewing Adue regard to Every divine Precept And to the good and wholesom Laws of the Land
Tisbuary 1775
Recorded by EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
And with Respect to the Taxation of the American Colonists by Great Brittan Resolved First. That the People of this Province are not only by a Just national right; but also by the Express words of their Charter Intitaled to have and Injoy all the Liberties and Immunities of free and natural Subjects within any of his Majesty's Dominions to all Intents Constructions and Purposes whatsoever of which Imunities of free and natural Subjects this is most certainly one that no Tax be Imposed on them but with their own consent Given Personally or by their Representetives, 2ly That the brittish Parliment by Imposing Duties on commodities Imported here from Brittan for the Single pur- pose of Raising a revenue by Leveying upon us : Have Taxed us without our Consent given Either Personally or by our Representatives and have thereby assumed to themselves A Power to dispose of our Property at their Pleasure And have grosly violated one of our most Esential Nat- ural as well as charter rights, 3ly That the Exercise of the Power of Tax- ing us assumed by the Parliment of Great Brittan ought therefore to be Resolutely & Strenously Opposed by the People of this Province and by every free American Colonistis with respect to the Treatment of the People of Boston by the Blocking up of their Harbour and Sorounding them with an armed force, Resolved That by the Late Act of Parliment for blocking up the Harbour of the Capital of this Province and by the verey Rigourous and unjustifiable Execution thereof the People of that Town are Treated in a verey Oppresive and Cruel manner to the great hurt & Detriment not only of this whole Province but of the Other American Collonies also by Obstructing their Trade & Commerce : and that the People of that Distressed Town Ought to be Considerd by all the Friends of civil Liberty as Sufferers in a Cause Common to all Such : and as therefore Justly Intituled to all the Support & relief they are able to afford them : and as to the Late Proceedings with regard to Canada Resolved That the Extending the Limits of that Province and the Estab- lishment of Arbitary Goverment as well as Popery therein Seems to Threaten the Other British Collonies on this Continent with a Like Sub-
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