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[{"insert":"\tAt a meeting of the Associators of the Fourth Battalion of the City and Liberties of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Philadelphia"},{"insert":", on the usual place of parade, in consequence of notice given to them on the 6th instant that their sense respecting a new Government of this Province, and the mode proposed for obtaining it, &c., would this day be freely taken,\n\n\tPresent: The Officers and Privates of nine Companies.\n\n\tThe Colonel, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Thomas McKean"},{"insert":", informed them that since he had proposed this meeting for the above, among other purposes, he had been waited upon with the following Resolution of the Committee of Privates of the five Battalions:\n\n“In Committee of Privates, June 6, 1776."},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\t“Moved, and unanimously agreed to, That an application be made to the Officers of the several Battalions to take the sense of each Battalion, whether they will support the Resolve of Congress of the 15th ultimo, and the Proceedings of the publick meeting held the 20th following, in consequence thereof?\n\n\t“A true copy:\t\t\tJAMES CANNON, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Clerk"},{"insert":".”\n\n\tHe said that he was happy to find that his own idea of the propriety of this measure was supported by so respectable a body as the Committee of Privates.\n\n\tThe Resolve of Congress of the 15th ultimo, was then read, and the Proceedings of the publick meeting in the State-House yard on the 20th of the same month. And thereupon the questions were severally put:\n\n\tIs it the determined resolution of this Corps to support the said Resolve of Congress with their lives and fortunes?\n\n\tCarried unanimously in the affirmative.\n\n\tIs it the determined resolution of this Corps to support the Proceedings of the publick meeting aforesaid, at all hazards?\n\n\tCarried unanimously in the affirmative.\n\n\tAfter which the Colonel proposed another question to them, viz:\n\n\tWhether they wished the Province of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Pennsylvania"},{"insert":" to be a free and independent State, and united with the other twelve Colonies represented in Congress?\n\n\tCarried unanimously in the affirmative.\n\n\tNo arguments or persuasions were urged for or against the above propositions, and all present, amounting to upwards of four hundred, showed their hearty approbation of the whole transaction by three huzzas.\n\n\tSigned by order of the Battalion:\n\n\t\t\t\t\tTHOMAS McKEAN, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Colonel"},{"insert":".\n"}]
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Associators, 4th Battalion, City and Liberties of Philadelphia, 10 June 1776
Force, Peter. American Archives: consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the north American colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American Revolution; and of the constitution of government for the United States, to the final ratification thereof. 4th Series, Volume VI. Washington: M. St Clair Clarke, 1846. Available at HeinOnline.
