| Description | Copy of three petitions, not dated, to the King, the Lords, and the Commons, from the Freeholders and other inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware, and Maryland
Refer to the establishment of these Colonies by their ancestors, and of their enjoyment of the rights and privileges essential to freedom to which they consider themselves entitled, express their concern at the passing of the Stamp Act
Names of the delegates signing the petitions are James Otis and Oliver Partridge for Massachusetts Bay, Medcalf Bowler and Henry Waret for Rhode Island, Kendrick Fisher and Joseph Burden for New Jersey, John Dickinson, John Morton, and George Bryan for Pennsylvania, Caesar Rodney and Thomas McKean for Government of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, William Murdock, Edward Tilghman, and Thomas Ringold for Maryland, Eliphalet Dyar, David Rowland, and William Samuel Johnson for Connecticut
For full description see HMC 14th report available in SRO Reading Room |