Doctor Willard' s Confession

v3:463

Whereas I, the subscriber, have, from the perverseness of my wicked heart, maliciously and scandalously abused the characters and proceedings of the Continental and Provincial Congresses, the Selectmen of this Town, and the Committees of Correspondence in general:

I do hereby declare that, at the time of my doing it, I knew the said abuses to be the most scandalous falsehoods, and that I did it for the sole purpose of abusing those bodies of men, and affronting my townsmen, and all the friends of liberty throughout the Continent. Being now fully sensible of my wickedness and notorious falsehoods, humbly beg pardon of those worthy characters I have so scandalously abused, and of my countrymen in general, and desire this confession, of mine may be printed in the American Oracle of Liberty, for three weeks successively.

NAHUM WILLARD.

Test:
BENJAMIN FLAGG,
JOSIAH PEIRCE,
SAMUEL MILLER,
JONATHAN STONE,
DAVID BIGELOW,

Worcester, August 21, 1775