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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 49: (search)
wn easy, voted Shirley, until Franklin to T. Gushing, 9 March, 1773;--viii. 35. our rights and liberties are restored. Shirley to Boston Com. 11 Jan. 1773. The people of Chap. XLIX.} 1773. Jan. Medfield would also have a final period put to that most cruel, inhuman and unchristian practice, the Jan. Slave-trade. Proceedings of the town of Newfield, 28 Dec. 1772, and 11 January, 1773; Original Papers, 602. Acton spoke out concisely and firmly. Prohibiting slitting-mills, said South Hadley, is similar to the Philistines prohibiting smiths in Israel, and shews we are esteemed by our brethren as vassals. We think ourselves obliged to emerge from our former obscurity, and speak our minds with freedom, declared Lunenburg, or our posterity may otherwise rise up and curse us. We of this place are unanimous, was the message from Pepperell; our resentment riseth against those who dare invade our natural and constitutional rights. With one voice they named Captain William Prescot