Vote of Hanover, at a Town-Meeting

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PLYMOUTH, ss:

At a legal Town-Meeting held at Hanover, on the 6th day of June, 1776, agreeable to a resolve of the honourable House of Representatives of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, relative to advising the person or persons who should represent them in the General Court, whether, that if the Honourable Congress should, for the safety of the Colonies, declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, they, the inhabitants, would solemnly engage, with their lives and fortunes, to support them in the measure:

Voted, unanimously, To instruct and inform their Representatives, that if the honourable Congress should, for the safety of said Colonies, declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, that they, the inhabitants, will engage with their lives and fortunes to support them in the measure.