| Lemuel Shattuck - Concord (Mass.) - 1835 - 438 pages
...American Colonies, declare themselves independent of Great Britain, we, the inhabitants of this town will solemnly engage, with our lives and fortunes to, support them in the measure." About this time the town was requested to instruct their representative, according to the general custom... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - Danvers (Mass.) - 1848 - 322 pages
...Colonies, Declare them Independent of the Kingdom of Great Brittain, we the Inhabitants of this town, do solemnly Engage with our Lives and Fortunes to support them in the measure. "Voted, that the Town Clerk be, and he hereby is directed Immediately to Deliver an attested Copy of... | |
| Danvers (Mass.) - Danvers (Mass.) - 1852 - 244 pages
...of the United Colonies, declare them independent of Great Britain, we, the inhabitants of this town, do solemnly engage with our lives and fortunes to support them in the measure." Sir, the citizens of Danvers were not only among the first to rush to the field of battle and the last... | |
| Charles Wellington, Edwin Goodhue Adams - Ordination - 1857 - 238 pages
...United Colonies, declare them independent of the kingdom of Great Britain, we, the said inhabitants, do solemnly engage, with our lives and fortunes, to support them in the measure." * In that unadorned house of worship they had learned how they held their freedom, not by grant of... | |
| Frederick Freeman - Barnstable County (Mass.) - 1862 - 842 pages
...the colonies, declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the inhabitants of this town solemnly engage with our lives and fortunes to support them in the measure; and our representative is hereby instructed to act agreeably with this vote." NATHANIEL STONE Esq., who... | |
| Charles Hudson - Marlborough (Mass.) - 1862 - 584 pages
...declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, we, the inhabitants of Marlborough, will solemnly engage, with our lives and fortunes, to support them in the measure." Not only the town of Marlborough, but almost every town in the Province, passed in a solemn manner... | |
| Brookline Town hall - 1873 - 76 pages
...American Colonies declare them Independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, we the said Inhabitants will solemnly engage with our Lives and Fortunes to support them in the measure." This was Brookline's prompt and categorical response to the question ordered to be propounded to all... | |
| Octavius Pickering - Legislators - 1873 - 532 pages
...for the safety of the United American Colonies, declare them independent of Great Britain, we will solemnly engage, with our lives and fortunes, to support them in the measure." After a brief attendance, he was called to other duties in the impending struggle. A period of forty-one... | |
| Lucius Robinson Paige - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1877 - 408 pages
...inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, in full town-meeting assembled and warned for the purpose abovesaid, do solemnly engage with our lives and fortunes to support them in the measure." Most faithfully did they redeem their pledge. The inhabitants of Cambridge suffered the various privations... | |
| Marquis Fayette Dickinson - Amherst (Mass.) - 1878 - 60 pages
...declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, we, the inhabitants of the town of Amherst, solemnly engage, with our lives and fortunes, to support them in the measure ; and that this Resolve be transmitted to our Representative in General Assembly, as instructions to him."... | |
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