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[{"insert":"BARNSTABLE, BARNSTABLE COUNTY."},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\tAt a Town-meeting held at "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Barnstable"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"June"},{"insert":" 25, 1776: The question being put, agreeable to the Resolve of the General Court, Whether, if the Continental Congress should judge expedient to declare the United Colonies independent, they, the inhabitants of the Town of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Barnstable"},{"insert":" would support the measure at the hazard of life and estate? It passed in the negative.\n\n\tUpon which a number of respectable inhabitants, whose names are underwritten, judging such a procedure would have a tendency to disunite the Colonies, and to injure the cause of their country, did at said meeting publickly protest against it, hoping thereby to avoid the imputation of acquiescence in so dishonourable a measure.\n\n\t\t\tJOSEPH OTIS,\t\t\t\t\tFREEMAN PARKER,\n\t\t\tTHOMAS ANNABLE,\t\t\t\tB. BAKER,\n\t\t\tBENJAMIN SMITH,\t\t\t\tNATHAN BASSETT,\n\t\t\tZACCHEUS HOWLAND,\t\t\tDAVID SMITH,\n\t\t\tEBENEZER LOTHROP,\t\t\tJOB HOWLAND,\n\t\t\tJOSEPH JENKINS,\t\t\t\tJAMES DAVIS,\n\t\t\tJOSEPH SMITH,\t\t\t\t\tNATHANIEL HOWLAND.\n\t\t\tJOHN CROCKER, JR.,\n\n\nBarnstable, June 26, 1776."},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\tWe, the subscribers, inhabitants of the Town of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Barnstable"},{"insert":", protest against the proceedings of said town, at their meeting held on "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Tuesday"},{"insert":", 25th of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"June"},{"insert":" instant, respecting the giving their Representative instructions with regard to the independency of the Colonies, as it was recommended to the several towns in this Colony, by way of resolve, from the honourable House of Representatives; and as a vote was put in said meeting to know whether the town would proceed to give any instructions to their Representatives, agreeable to the aforesaid recommendation; which was carried in the negative.\n\n\tAnd judging it to be our duty to protest against said vote, we do it for the following reason: We think such a measure as proposed in said resolve to be the most salutary that can be gone into for the safety and well-being of the Colonies, under our present oppressed situation. And as it is the duty of every individual to give his voice in favour of the aforesaid recommendation, in case the honourable Continental Congress see cause to declare these Colonies entirely independent, we are ready and willing to stand by such a declaration (if it should take place) to the utmost of our power, with our lives and estates; and being very unwilling that the aforesaid vote should be passed over in silence, for fear of offending our own consciences, in being thought to acquiesce in so strange a vote of the town, and of offending our countrymen and brethren in other towns who may go into contrary measures, entirely abhorring any principles but what are for the good of the United Colonies of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"America"},{"insert":", and detesting those arguments brought by some men in said meeting to dissuade the people from complying with said recommendation, we take this method of letting the publick know our dissent from the aforesaid proceedings of the town, having no other way to make our sentiments known. We request that this Protest may be entered in the Town-book, to let posterity know that there were a few in this town who dared to stand forth in favour of an injured and oppressed country, treated with every species of wickedness used by tyranny to enslave mankind; and it is a matter of great grief to us that the cause of liberty is treated with such indignity by some of the inhabitants of the Town of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Barnstable"},{"insert":".\n\n\t\t\tJOSEPH OTIS,\t\t\t\t\tNATHANIEL HOWLAND,\n\t\t\tTHOMAS ANNABLE,\t\t\t\tEBENEZER LOTHROP,\n\t\t\tBENJAMIN SMITH,\t\t\t\tBINNEY BAKER,\n\t\t\tZACCHEUS HOWLAND,\t\t\tJOHNATHAN HALLET,\n\t\t\tJOSEPH JENKINS,\t\t\t\tCORNELIUS LOVELL,\n\t\t\tJOSEPH SMITH,\t\t\t\t\tSETH LOTHROP,\n\t\t\tFREEMAN PARKER,\t\t\t\tBENONI CROCKER,\n\t\t\tJOHN CROCKER, JR.,\t\t\t\tJOHN BLISH,\n\t\t\tNATHAN BASSETT,\t\t\t\tEDMUND HAWES,\n\t\t\tDAVID SMITH,\t\t\t\t\tJOHN RUSSEL,\n\t\t\tJOB HOWLAND,\t\t\t\t\tCHARLES CONANT.\n\t\t\tJAMES DAVIS,\n"}]
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Massachusetts: Barnstable (Barnstable), 25 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.
