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Vote in Nearly a Full Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Murrayfield

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MURRAYFIELD, HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.

June 17, 1776.

At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Murrayfield, regularly assembled, on the third article in the warrant with regard to Independency from Great Britain:

Voted, (in a nearly full meeting,) That, under the present circumstances of the Thirteen United Colonies, and the treatment of Great Britain towards America, we view it necessary, and are willing, to a man, to be declared an

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independent State, whenever the honourable Continental Congress shall judge best.

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