We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] [electronic resource] : having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
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We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] [electronic resource] : having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
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Boston Committee of Correspondence.
Publication Details
[Boston : s.n, 1774]
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United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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English
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1 sheet ; 32 x 20 cm.
Note
Form of a covenant drawn up by the Committee of Correspondence at Boston, and revised by the Worcester Committee of Correspondence; cf. Matthews, Albert. "The solemn league and covenant, 1774," in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. XVIII, 1917, p. 103-122.
Text in forty-seven lines; printed area measures 24.7 x 15.0 cm.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Text in forty-seven lines; printed area measures 24.7 x 15.0 cm.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
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Evans, 13427
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1779
English Short Title Catalog, W17103.
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1779
English Short Title Catalog, W17103.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Worcester (Mass.). Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety.
Worcester (Mass.). Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety.
Worcester (Mass.). Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety.
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