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together the principal Inhabitants of your county and take their senti- 

 ments. We shall forward to you by every occasion, any matters of con- 

 sequence that come to our knowledge, and we should be glad you would 

 choose and appoint a Committee to Correspond with us. 



Signed by order of the Committee of Correspondence, for the 

 City of Philadelphia. 



Charles Thompson, Clerk. 



In pursuance of which, and also of another large letter written by Mr. 

 Charles Thompson, and sent to the inhabitants of this borough, directed 

 to the care of Mr. William Atlee, a meeting was held on the 15th day of 

 June, 1774, and the following Resolves were agreed on, viz: At a 

 meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Lancaster, at the court 

 house in the said borough, on Wednesday, the 15th day of June, 1774: 

 Agreed — that to preserve the Constitutional rights of the inhabitants of 

 America, it is incumbent on every colony, to unite and use the most 

 effectual means to procure a repeal of the late act of Parliament against 

 the town of Boston. 



That the act of Parliament for blocking up the port and harbor of 

 Boston, is an invasion of the rights of the inhabitants of the said town, 

 as subjects of the crown of Great Britain. That it is the opinion of the 

 inhabitants at this meeting that the proper and effectual means to be used 

 to obtain a repeal of the said act, will be to put an immediate stop to all 

 imports and exports, to and from Great Britain, until the same act be 

 repealed. 



That the traders and inhabitants of this town will join and concur with 

 the patriotic merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, and freeholders, of the 

 city and county of Philadelphia, and other parts of this province, in an 

 association or solemn agreement to this purpose, if the same shall be by 

 them thought necessary. 



That Edward Shippen, Esq., George Ross, Esq., Jasper Yeates, Esq., 

 Matthias Slough, Esq., James Webb, Esq., William Atlee, Esq., William 

 Henry, Esq., Mr. Ludwig Lauman, Mr. William Bausman and Mr. Charles 

 Hall, be a committee to correspond with the general committee of Phila- 

 delphia; that these sentiments be immediately forwarded to the commit- 

 tee of correspondence at Philadelphia. 



The gentlemen above named, after being chosen and appointed a com- 

 mittee of correspondence, resolved upon the following letter to be trans- 

 mitted to the committee of Philadelphia, directed to Mr. Charles Thompson, 

 and is as follows, viz : 



Lancaster, the 15th June, 1774. 



Sir: Agreeable to the request of the Committee of Correspondence for 

 the city of Philadelphia, signified to some of the Inhabitants here, by 

 your letter, we have this evening had a Meetinoj of the Inhabitants of 



