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[{"insert":"\tAt a meeting of the Associators of the First Battalion of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Chester"},{"insert":" County, on the 10th of this instant, Colonel Moore in the Chair, the following Resolutions were unanimously agreed upon, viz:\n\n\tThat whereas the King and Parliament of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Great Britain"},{"insert":" have asserted their right to bind the Colonies in all cases whatsoever, and, by a late act of Parliament, declared the colonists Rebels, and consequently have cut them off from the protection of that Crown; have levied a cruel and bloody war against us, by calling in to their assistance many thousands of foreign mercenaries, so that we must either submit to the most ignominious slavery, or vindicate our liberties at the risk of our lives:\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved"},{"insert":", That we will exert our most strenuous efforts to support and strengthen the Continental Union, and in a particular manner to carry into execution, to the utmost of our power, the Resolve of the honourable the Continental Congress, bearing date "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"May"},{"insert":" 15, 1776.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved"},{"insert":", That the Instructions given by our Assembly last fall, and renewed in the spring to our Delegates, are of the most dangerous tendency, and are calculated to break an important middle link in the grand Continental chain of Union.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved"},{"insert":", That some alterations in new-modelling the Government to suit the present exigency of our affaire, are necessary.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved"},{"insert":", That the present House of Assembly, as they were chosen for the sole purpose of executing the old—not framing a new Constitution—have no authority to make the necessary alterations, without assuming arbitrary power.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved"},{"insert":", That we most heartily concur with the Committee of Inspection of the City and Liberties of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Philadelphia"},{"insert":", in calling a Conference of the several County Committees of this Province, to be held on the 18th of this instant, at "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Philadelphia"},{"insert":", for the purpose of deliberating on the most proper measures for choosing a Provincial Convention for the purpose of new-modelling the Constitution.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved"},{"insert":", That the Remonstrance said to be signed by a number of the inhabitants of the City of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Philadelphia"},{"insert":", and a Petition to the Assembly, signed "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"W. Hamilton"},{"insert":", are calculated to inflame the minds of the good people of this Province, to sow dissensions, and strike at the liberties of the people.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved"},{"insert":", That we will support the measures now adopted at all hazards, be the consequences what they may.\n"}]
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Appendix A: State and Local Declarations of Independence
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Appendix B: Local Resolutions on Independence: Some Examples
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Appendix C: The Declaration of Independence: The Jefferson Draft with Congress's Editorial Changes
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Associators, 1st Battalion of Chester County, 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.
