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RESOLUTIONS, &c.

At a provincial meeting of deputies chosen by the several counties, in Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774, and continued by adjournments from day to day.

PRESENT,

For the city and county of Philadelphia,

Thomas Willing,

John Dickinson,

Peter Chevalier,

Edward Pennington,

Thomas Wharton,

John Cox,

Joseph Reed,

Tho. Wharton, jun.
Samuel Erwin,
Thomas Fitzsimons,
Dr. William Smith,

Isaac Howell,

VOL. 1.

Joseph Moulder,

Anth. Morris, Jun.

George Gray,

John Nixon,

Jacob Barge,
Thomas Penrose,
John M. Nesbit,
Jonathan B. Smith,
James Mease,
Thomas Barclay,
Benjamin Marshall,

Samuel Howell,

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THOMAS WILLING, Chairman,

CHARLES THOMSON, Clerk.

AGREED that, in case of any difference in sentiment, the question be determined by the deputies voting by counties.

THE letters from Boston of the 13th of May were then read, and a short account given of the steps taken in consequence thereof, and the measures now pursuing in this and the neighbouring provinces; after which the following RESOLVES were passed.

UNAN. I. THAT we acknowledge ourselves, and the inhabitants of this province, liege subjects of his majesty king George the third, to whom they and we owe and will bear true and faithful allegi

ance.

UNAN. II. That as the idea of an unconstitutional independence on the parent state is utterly abhorrent to our principles, we view the unhappy differences between Great-Britain and the colonies with the deepest distress and anxiety of mind, as fruitless to her, grievous to us, and destructive of the best interests of both.

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