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ments, the same was approved of by the congress, and ordered to be engrossed.
Then the congress adjourned to to-morrow morning, at 9 o'clock.
Tuesday, Oct. 22d, 1765, A. M.-The congress met according to adjournment. The address to his majesty being engrossed, was read and compared, and is as follows, viz:
To the King's most excellent majesty.
The petition of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the government of the counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware, and province, of Maryland[1]
Most humbly sheweth,
That the inhabitants of these colonies, unanimously devoted with the warmest sentiments of duty and affection to your sacred person and government, and inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the protestant succession in your illustrious house, and deeply sensible of your royal attention to their prosperity and happiness, humbly beg leave to approach the throne, by representing to your majesty, that these colonies were originally planted by subjects of the British crown, who, animated with the spirit of liberty, encouraged by your majesty's royal predecessors, and colliding in the public faith for the enjoyment of all the rights and liberties essential to freedom, emigrated from their native country to this continent, and, by their successful perseverance, in the midst of innumerable dangers and difficulties, together
- ↑ South Carolina, we presume, was omitted in the copy.-Ed.
