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

Yoted, 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.