The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . eting the hereafter Recorded resolveswere read Examined & Unanimously Voted by the Inhabitantsof said Town And Ordered to be Recorded on the Town Book. Tisbuary December ye 6th A D 1774 Attest Ezra AthearnTown Clerk At A Convention of the Committees of the Several Townsin the County of Dukes County in the Province of the Massa-chusetts Bay: Held by Adjournment at Tisbuary in SaidCounty on the gth of November 1774 The S
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . eting the hereafter Recorded resolveswere read Examined & Unanimously Voted by the Inhabitantsof said Town And Ordered to be Recorded on the Town Book. Tisbuary December ye 6th A D 1774 Attest Ezra AthearnTown Clerk At A Convention of the Committees of the Several Townsin the County of Dukes County in the Province of the Massa-chusetts Bay: Held by Adjournment at Tisbuary in SaidCounty on the gth of November 1774 The Said Committee afterSerious Consideration of the unhappy State of the Province ingeneral & of said County in Particular; by means of CertainActs of the Brittish Parliment more especially A Late ActEntituled an Act for the better Regulating the government ofthe province of the Massachusetts Bay: Resolved as followsThat by the Emigration of Our Ancestors from great Brittaininto the parts of America of which the Province of Massachu-setts Bay consists: When thare ware Uncultivated RegionsInhabited only by wild Beasts and Savages in human form; by 98 MARTHAS Tlie Maiisiou House. their Establishing them selves here at their own great expenceSubmitting to and Enduring with most Remarkable fortitudeand Patience the mostgrevious Toils andhardships. Amidst thegreatest dangers: bythe great cost and la-bor of the People ofthis province ClearingInclosing & Cultivat-ing their Lands here(After a fair purchashereof of the IndianPropriators) And inErecting Necessary &Conveniant Buildings thereon: And by this Peoples Defend-ing at A Vast Expence of their Blood and Treasure their Pos-sessions and Properties thus Aquired. The Territories Included within this Province whichwould Otherwise have belonged to no Prince or Princes butIndian Sachems; or which would have been much worse forGreat Brittain would have been Possessed by the Subjects ofSome Rival European Prince or State) Are now wi
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