habitants, will Solemnly Engage, with their lives and fortunes to Support them in the measures.

Voted and Pasd in the affirmative.

DORCHESTER.

Att a Meeting of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Dorchester, Qualified as the Law directs for Voting in Town affairs, May Twenty-Third, Anno Domini, 1776, Legally Warned,

Voted, That if the Continental Congress should think it best to declare an Independency with Great Britain, we will Support them with our Lives and Fortunes.