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terday—and then adjourned to to-morrow morning, 9 o'clock.
Wednesday, Oct. 16th, 1765, A. M.—The congress met according to adjournment, and resumed, &c. as yesterday—and then adjourned to to-morrow morning, 9 o'clock.
Thursday, Oct. 17th, 1765, A. M.—The congress met according to adjournment, and resumed, &c. as yesterday—and then adjourned to to-morrow morning, 9 o'clock.
Friday, Oct. 18th, 1765, A. M.—The congress met according to adjournment, and resumed, &c. as yesterday—and then adjourned to to-morrow morning, 9 o'clock.
Saturday, Oct. 19th, 1765, A. M.—The congress met according to adjournment, and resumed, &c., as yesterday; and upon mature deliberation, agreed to the following declaration[1] of the rights and grievances of the colonists in America, which were ordered to be inserted.
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.
The members of this congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to his majesty's person and government, inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the protestant succession, and with minds deeply impressed by a sense of the present and impending misfortunes of the British colonies on this continent; having considered as maturely as time would permit, the circumstances of said colonies, esteem it our indispensable duty to make the following declarations, of our humble opinions, respecting the most essential
- ↑ This "Declaration of Rights," the first manifesto of the first congress of North America, was from the pen of John Cruger, a delegate to said congress from New-York, and who at the same time was speaker of the assembly of that colony, and mayor of the city of New-York.—Ed. Nat. Register.
