Do you want to go straight to a particular resource? Use the Jump Tool and follow 2 steps:
Look for the pages that have the shortcut code symbol Quill - Jump To Icon (e4242)
Jump To
e4242
You can click this icon to copy the jump to url to that page to your clipboard, ready to paste into emails, notes, documents or research papers as needed.
This can usually be found in the top hero section of overview,
delegations visualize, session visualize, event visualize, commentary collection, commentary item,
resource
collection, and resource item pages.
Enter the shortcut code for the page that you wish to search for.
[{"insert":"ACTON, MIDDLESEX COUNTY."},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\tAt a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Acton"},{"insert":", legally assembled, on the 14th day of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"June"},{"insert":", 1776, the following Instructions were given to the Representative of this Town:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"To Mr"},{"insert":". MARK WHITE."},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\tSIR: Our not being favoured with the resolution of the late honourable House of Representatives, calling upon the several towns in this Colony to express their minds with respect to the important question of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"American"},{"insert":" Independence, is the occasion of our not expressing our minds sooner; but we cheerfully embrace this opportunity to instruct you on that important question. The subverting our Constitution, the many injuries and unheard-of barbarities which these Colonies have received from "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Great Britain"},{"insert":", confirm us in the opinion that the present age will be deficient in their duty to "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"God"},{"insert":", to their posterity, and themselves, if they do not establish an "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"American"},{"insert":" Republick. This is the only form of Government we wish to see established. But we mean not to dictate. We freely submit this interesting affair to the wisdom of the honourable Continental Congress, who we trust are guided and directed in these important affairs by the Supreme Governour of the world; and we entreat you, sir, to give them the strongest assurances that, if they should declare "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"America"},{"insert":" to be a free and independent Republick, your constituents will defend the measure with their lives and fortunes.\n\n\tWe further entreat you that you do nothing to subvert the laws concerning the settling and maintaining Gospel ministers; but, on the contrary, that you do all you can to uphold them in their full power.\n"}]
Explore Groupings
Grouping Name
Appendix A: State and Local Declarations of Independence
^
5
States
1354
131846 - ?-??
Massachusetts
1462
541823 - ?-??
Counties
1354
8?-??
Appendix B: Local Resolutions on Independence: Some Examples
^
6?-??
New York
1462
2?-??
Grand Jury Presentments
1354
4?-??
Appendix C: The Declaration of Independence: The Jefferson Draft with Congress's Editorial Changes
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.
