Easthampton Address

Easthampton October 2<8>th, 1776.

We the Committee of the Town of Easthampton being thoroughly convinced of the Injurious and Criminal Tendency of our former Meeting and Resolutions, and willing to manifest our hearty Disapprobation of all such Illegal Measures, Do hereby dissolve this Committee, and as far as in us lies, Revoke and disannul all former Orders and Resolutions of this Committee, and we do further hereby renounce and disavow the Orders and Resolutions of all other Committee’s and Congresses whatsoever, as being undutifull to out lawful Sovereign, repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution, and Ruinous in the Extream to the Happiness and Prosperity of this Town.

John Chatfield.

John <Gardiner>.

Henry Dayton

Samuel Parsons.

N.B. The other Members of our Committee are removed to Connecticut, & those who were Members of the County Comittee.

New York <illegible>

This is to certify that the aforegoing declarations, from page 1st. to page 8th. both incl<illegible>d, of the several Committees in the County of Suffolk & provinces of New York are <true> Copies of the Originals voluntarily transmitted to me from the members of the said Committees, & now in my Possession.

Given under my Hand & Seal of Arms in the City of New York the Twenty Sixth day of November in the Seventeenth Year of his Majesty’s Reign. —

William Tryon