1776-06-10th
At a meeting of the Selectmen June 101776.
th
Ordered a Town Meeting to be warned and held on Thursday the 13 instead at 4 o’clock P.M.. at
the usual place for holding town meetings in said Town to see if the inhabitants of this town will
agreeably to the Resolves of the Great and General Court will give their Representative instructions
that should the Honorable Continental Congress for the Safety of the Colonies declare them
independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain they the said inhabitants will solidly engage with their
lives and fortunes to support them in the measures. And there was a warrant issued out to Constable
Samuel Woodberry to warn Mr. Hitchcock’s Parish and to Constables Nicholas Thorndike to warn
the inhabitants of the first Parish accordingly. Attest Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.