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The Committee appointed to prepare and bring in a Memorial and
Petition to the Lords in Parliament, did Report, That they had
essayed a Draught for that Purpose, which they laid on the Table,
and humbly submitted to the Correction of the Congress.
The said Address was Read, and after sundry Amendments, the
same was approved of by the Congress, and ordered to be Ingrossed.
The Committee appointed to prepare and bring in a Petition to the
House of Commons of Great-Britain, did Report, That they had
essayed a Draught for that Purpose, which they laid on the Table,
and humbly submitted to the Correction of the Congress.
The said Address was Read, and after sundry Amendments, the
same was approved of by the Congress, and ordered to be Ingrossed.
The Congress Adjourn to To-Morrow Morning IX o'Clock.
Tuesday, October 22, 1765, A. M.
The Congress met according to Adjournment.
The Address to his Majesty being Ingrossed, was Read and Com-
pared, and is as follows, viz.
To the King's most Excellent Majesty.
The Petition of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the
Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations,
New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the
Government of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon
Delaware, Province of Maryland,
Most humbly Sheweth,
That the Inhabitants of these Colonies, Unanimously devoted
with the warmest Sentiments of Duty and Affection to your Maj-
esty's Sacred Person and Government, Inviolably attached to the
present Happy Establishment of the Protestant Succession in your
Illustrious House, and deeply sensible of your Royal Attention to
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their Prosperity and Happiness, humbly beg Leave to approach the
Throne, by representing to your Majesty, That these Colonies were
Originally Planted by Subjects of the British Crown, who, animated
with the Spirit of Liberty, encouraged by your Majesty's Royal
Predecessors, and confiding in the Public Faith for the Enjoyment
of all the Rights and Liberties essential to Freedom, emigrated from
their Native Country to this Continent, and by their successful Per-
severance in the midst of innumerable Dangers and Difficulties,
together with a Profusion of their Blood and Treasure, have hap-
pily added these vast and valuable Dominions to the Empire of
Great-Britain. That for the Enjoyment of these Rights and Liberties,
several Governments were early formed in the said Colonies, with
full Power of Legislation, agreeable to the Principles of the English
Constitution.
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