280 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1774. 



"7. It is our opinion that it would conduce greatly to the 

 restoration of the liberties of America, should the Colonies 

 enter into a solemn agreement not to purchase any goods, 

 wares or merchandize imported from Great Britain, under 

 such restrictions as be agreed upon by the Congress. We, for 

 our parts, sensible of the great advantages which must arise 

 from promoting economy and manufacturing among ourselves, 

 are determined to use as little foreign manufactures of what 

 kind or quality soever, as our necessities will permit until the 

 several acts of the British Parliament, injurious to American 

 liberty, be repealed. 



" 8. That as our brethren at Boston are now suffering in 

 the cause of America, it is the duty of the inhabitants of this 

 County, in common with the neighbouring Colonies, generously 

 to contribute towards their support ; and therefore the Committee 

 hereafter appointed, are requested immediately to open and set 

 on foot a subscription for the said sufferers, and the money 

 arising therefrom to be laid out and expended as the said 

 Committee, or a majority of them, shall judge best to answer 

 the benevolent intention. 



" 9. That the following persons, to wit, Francis Richardson, 

 Elisha Price, John Hart, Anthony Wayne, John Sellers, Hugh 

 Lloyd, William Montgomery, Francis Johnston, William Parker, 

 Richard Riley, Thomas Hockley, Robert Mendenhall, and John 

 Fleming or a majority of them, be and they are hereby ap- 

 pointed a Committee for this County to meet and correspond 

 with the Committees of the several Counties of this and the 

 other Colonies, and to join in such measures as to them shall 

 appear necessary for the public good.^ 



"Francis Johnston, Clk. Com." 



There had been some correspondence between the Philadel- 

 phia Committee and influential persons in the several Counties 

 of the Province, a month earlier, at which time it was not ex- 

 pected that the Governor would convene the Assembly. Dele- 

 gates from the several County Committees convened at Phila- 

 delphia, and engaged in the preparation of a series of general 

 resolutions, to be laid before that body, which met shortly 

 afterwards. The Assembly, acting in harmony with similar 

 bodies in the other Colonies, appointed deputies to the general 

 Congress that convened at Philadelphia on the 14th of Sep- 

 tember following. The whole number of deputies was fifty-five, 

 of whom eight were from Pennsylvania, and of these, two, 

 viz., Charles Humphreys and John Morton, resided in the dis- 

 trict now constituting Delaware County. 



1 Haz. Reg. iii. 38. 



