County of Essex, colony of Massachusetts-Bay : as the connexion between Great-Britain and this continent is growing every day more and more loose and uncertain ... as we may soon be obliged to take up independency for ourselves ...
Inscription: April 17, 1776. to the Committees of Correspondence, Inspection & Safety. Manchester. Joshua Ware, Chairman P.T of the Committee Salem. Joshua Orne, Chairman of the Committee Marblehead.
