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[{"insert":"\tAs the difficulties between this and the mother country increased, and it had become a serious question, whether the united colonies should declare themselves independent, a meeting of the town was called “to see whether the town would advise or give Dudley Carlton, their representative, any instructions relative to the honourable congress declaring the United Colonies independent states.” And the town met accordingly on the 20th of June 1776, when they appointed Thomas Webster, John Burbank, capt. Nathaniel Gage, Benjamin Muzzy, John Savory, to consult and report to the meeting, what ought to be done; which committee reported, that they should send to their representative the following instructions, viz:\n\n\tTo Dudley Carlton, Esq. representative from the town of Bradford, in general assembly,\n\n\t“Sir-When we consider the despotick plan of government, adopted by the king, ministry and parliament of Great Britain, to enslave these American colonies. When we consider, instead of redressing our grievances, they have turned a deaf ear to the repeated petititions and remonstrances of all the United Colonies, and have also been and are still endeavoring to enforce their arbitrary plan upon us, by spilling our blood, by burning our towns, by seizing our property and by instigating the savages of the wilderness, and the negroes to take up the cause against us. When we consider these things, it raises our indignation, that we who have always been loyal subjects to the king of Great Britain, should be so unconstitutionally and inhumanly treated; such tyranical impositions and abuses of power, we cannot as men submit to. Therefore utterly despairing of a happy reconciliation ever taking place between Great Britian and these colonies, you are hereby desired, as our representative, to use your utmost endeavour, that our delegates in general congress be instructed to shake off the tyrannical yoke of Great Britain, and declare these United Colonies independent of that venal, corrupt and avaricious court forever, provided no proposals for a happy reconciliation be offered, which the honorable congress think proper to accept, and we hereby engage that we will, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, endeavour to defend them therein.”\n\n\tWhich report was accepted so far as it appears unanimously, and accordingly sent.\n"}]
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Appendix A: State and Local Declarations of Independence
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Massachusetts
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Counties
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Appendix B: Local Resolutions on Independence: Some Examples
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New York
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Grand Jury Presentments
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Appendix C: The Declaration of Independence: The Jefferson Draft with Congress's Editorial Changes
Perry, Gardner B. History of Bradford, Mass., from the earliest period to the close of 1820. Haverhill, Mass., C. C. Morse & son, printers, 1872. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/01011243/.
