Address to the Publick, from the Committee of Charlestown

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Charlestown, S˙ C˙, June 24, 1774.

Many generous and charitable persons in this Colony, being desirous to send, and we the subscribers having been requested to receive, donations for the relief of our distressed brethren in Boston, now suffering for the common cause of America, under the late most cruel, arbitrary, and oppressive Act of the British Parliament, for the shutting up of that port — in order that so laudable, and at the same time necessary a mark of our real sympathy and union with our sister Colonies, may not appear to have the least slight shown to it: Give this public notice, that whatever shall be sent to us, or either of us, for that purpose, shall be faithfully, and as expeditiously as possible forwarded to the direction of gentlemen of known probity, public spirit, and honour in Boston, for the benefit of such poor persons whose unfortunate circumstances, occasioned, by the operation of that unconstitutional Act, may be thought to stand in most need of immediate assistance.

DANIEL HORRY,
PAUL TRAPIER,
JAMES PARSONS,
WILLIAM ELLIOTT, of Beaufort,
WILLIAM WILLIAMSON,
MILES BREWTON,
JOHN NEUFVILLE,
LEVINUS CLARKSON,
CHARLES ELLIOTT,
THOMAS LYNCH,
CHARLES PINCKNEY,
THOMAS FERGUSON,
CHRIST GADSDEN.

N˙ B˙ Any rice that shall be sent to Mr˙ Gadsden' s wharf, for the above purpose, shall be there landed, shipped, and (if occasion) stored without a farthing charge.