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[{"insert":"\tThe Associators of Colonel "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"James Crawford's"},{"insert":" Battalion being convened on the 10th instant at the place of their parade in "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Leacock"},{"insert":" Township, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Lancaster"},{"insert":" County, it was moved to read to them the Resolve of the honourable Continental Congress of the 15th of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"May"},{"insert":", the Protest of divers of the inhabitants of this Province of the 20th of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"May"},{"insert":", the Alarm, the Circular Letter from the Committee of Privates of the City and Liberties of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Philadelphia"},{"insert":", and the Instructions given by the Assembly of this Province to their Delegates in Congress.\n\n\tThe same were accordingly read; upon which the Battalion formed the following Resolutions:\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously, "},{"insert":"That the Instructions given by the Assembly to their Delegates in Congress have operated against the honour, interest, and safety of this Colony, and are very injurious to the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"American"},{"insert":" cause in general.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously, "},{"insert":"That it is from the influence of those Instructions that many of the people have, viewed their rights and liberties as inseparably blended with the present Constitution.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously,"},{"insert":" That while Delegates to represent this Province are chosen by the Assembly, and fettered by their Instructions, we neither have nor can have that representation in Congress we desire and ought to have.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously, "},{"insert":"That it is the opinion of this Battalion, that the Delegates of this Province chosen and instructed as they are, can only be a sinking weight added to the many unavoidable and heavy burdens of that respectable body of which they are members.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously,"},{"insert":" That the liberties of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Pennsylvania"},{"insert":", while in the tenure of the present Government, are only nominal and precarious.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously, "},{"insert":"That a Government competent to the exigencies of our affairs ought to be immediately framed by a Convention appointed for that purpose.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously, "},{"insert":"That we most cheerfully adopt the measures recommended in the Resolve of Congress, in the Protest, the Alarm, and the Circular Letter, which have been read, and are determined to support them, be the consequences what they may.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Resolved, unanimously,"},{"insert":" That as we fully approve of their resolution, so we most heartily thank the patriotick Committee of this County for appointing a number of their members to meet the 18th instant at "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Philadelphia"},{"insert":", with members appointed by the Committees of the other Counties, to hold a Provincial Conference, for the express purpose of determining the number of which the Convention for forming a new Government shall consist, together with the mode of electing them.\n\n\tAfter the above Resolves were deliberately read and approved, the Battalion, as a further testimony of their hearty approbation of the measures adopted, gave three cheers.\n\n\tThe whole was conducted with the greatest decorum.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Unanimously agreed, "},{"insert":"That the above be signed, on behalf of the Battalion, by\t\t\t\t\tJOHN WHITEHILL.\n\n\tLeacock, June 10, 1776.\n"}]
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Associators of Col. Crawford's Battalion, Lancaster 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.
