New-Milford (Connecticut) Committee

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The Committee of Observation for New-Milford, in the County of Litchfield, Connecticut, having duly notified Zechariah Ferris, Joseph Ferris, Jun˙, James Osborne, Daniel Taylor, Nathaniel Taylor, and Hezekiah Stevens. Jun˙, all of said New-Milford, to appear before said Committee this day, to give reason, if any they had, why they and each of them should not be advertised as foes to the rights of British America; and said said Zechariah Ferris, Joseph Ferris, Jun˙, James Osborne, Daniel Taylor, and Hezekiah Stevens, Jun˙, having neglected to appear, and to give any satisfaction to said Committee; and said Nathaniel Taylor having appeared, and declared his opposition to the doings of the Continental Congress; and said Committee having fully deliberated upon, and finding each of the aforenamed persons obstinately fixed in their opposition to the doings of said Congress, and the now bleeding cause of America; thinks itself in duty bound to make this publication, that each of said persons may be universally neglected, and treated as incorrigible enemies to the rights of British America, according to the eleventh article of the Association, entered into by said Congress.

By order of the Committee:

SAMUEL CANFIELD, Committee Clerk.

Litchfield, May 29, 1775.

N˙ B˙ Five other persons being also notified to appear with the above, have made their retraction, and signed a compliance in full, with the doings of the Congress, to the acceptance of the Committee.