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Endeavours, there should appear in the Assembly of your Province a
Disposition to receive or give any Countenance to this seditious Paper,
it will be your Duty to prevent any Proceeding upon it, by an immediate
Prorogation or Dissolution
I am &c
Hillsborough
'Copies of the Massachusetts Circular Letter, as the enclosure was called, were to be
sent "to all the governors on the continent of N. America, except Massachusetts Bay, East
Florida & Quebec," according to a notation on the document. Governor Francis Bernard
(1712-1779) of Massachusetts had condemned this circular as seditious. Lord Hills-borough
ordered that the various assemblies be prevented from endorsing it even if
prevention required dissolution of the assemblies, but the order was too late. John Harvey
was speaker of the House in North Carolina; Thomas Cushing was speaker of the House
in Massachusetts. Samuel Adams, of course, was credited with drafting the famous
circular.
^Saunders, in Colonial Records, obviously erred in ascribing 1769 as the date of this
letter.
^This blank would have been filled in with the name of the individual colony being
addressed, in this case North Carolina.
''At this point there is a caret maik, and the explanation for change in the margin:
"Instead of the words following the mark A For Connecticut & Rhode Island, read, &
expect that they will give him the strongest Proof of them, on this, & every Occasion^
[Enclosure] PRO CO 5/69, ff. 124-126
Circular from Speaker of the House, cr-vii, 686-689
Massachusetts Bay Colony
(Copy) Province of the Massachusetts Bay
February nth 1768
Sir,
The House of Representatives of this Province have taken into their
serious Consideration the great difficulties that must accrue to them-selves
and their Constituents by the Operation of the several Acts of
Parliament imposing Duties and Taxes on the American Colonies.
As it is a Subject in which every Colony is deeply interested, they
have no Reason to doubt but your Assembly is duly impressed with its
Importance, & that such constitutional Measures will be taken by them
as are proper. It seems to be necessary that the Representations of the
several Assemblies upon so Delicate a Point should harmonize with
each other; The House therefore hope that this Letter will be candidly
considered in no other Light than as expressing a Disposition truly to
communicate their Mind to a Sister Colony, upon a Common Concern, in
the same manner as they would be glad to receive the Sentiments of
your, or any other House of Assembly on the Continent.
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