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From the Government of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and
Sussex, on Delaware,
Caesar Rodney,
Esquires.
Thomas M Kean,
Whose Appointments are as follows, viz.
Caesar Rodney, and Thomas M'Kean, Esquires, appeared from the
Government of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon
Delaware, and inform'd this Congress, That the Representatives of
the said Government, could not meet in General Assembly after the
above Letter was wrote, and before the first Day of this Instant, that
the said Assembly consists of only Eighteen Members, Fifteen of
whom have appointed the other Three to attend here, &c. by Three
several Instruments of Writing which are in these Words, viz.
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To all to whom these Present shall come.
Know Ye, That we the Subscribers, Five of the Representatives of
the Freemen of the Government of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent,
and Sussex, upon Delaware, sensible of the weighty and oppressive
Taxes imposed upon the good People of this Government, by divers
late Acts of Parliament, and of the great Infringement of the Liber-
ties and just and established Rights of all his Majesty's Colonies on
this Continent, occasioned by the late Measures in England, and being
of Opinion, that the Method proposed by the Honourable House of
Assembly of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, is the most likely
to obtain a Redress of these Grievances; and taking into Considera-
tion the Misfortune we at present labour under, in not having it in
our Power to convene as a House, and in a regular Manner to appoint
a Committee; yet zealous for the Happiness of our Constituents, think
it our Duty in this Way to serve them, as much as in us lies, (assured
of the hearty Approbation of any future House of Assembly of this
Government) and therefore do hereby Nominate and Appoint Jacob
Kollock, Thomas M'Kean, and Caesar Rodney, Esquires, Three of the
Representatives of the same Government, a Committee, to repair to
the City of New-York, on the First Day of October next, and there
to join with the Committees sent by the other Provinces, in One
united and loyal Petition to his Majesty, and Remonstrance to the
Honourable House of Commons of Great-Britain, against the afore-
said Acts of Parliament, therein dutifully, yet most firmly, asserting
the Colonies Right of Exclusion from Parliamentary Taxation, and
praying that they may not in any Instance, be stripped of the antient
and most valuable Privilege of a Trial by their Peers, and most
humbly imploring Relief.
In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our Hands, at New-
Castle, the Twenty-first Day of September, Annoque Domini 1765.
Evan Rice,
Thomas Cooch,
William Armstrong,
George Monro,
John Evans.
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