Note 286 — Chapter I · (continued 3)

It is printed from this copy, with fac-similes of the signatures, in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (May, 1883, p. 377), together with the letter transmitting it (Stevens's Hist. Coll., i. 167; Bibl. Hist., 1870, no. 1,026). Franklin printed it at once in Almon's edition of the Journal of the Congress (Works relating to Franklin in the Bost. Pub. Lib., p. 24; U. S. 47th Cong., 1st Sess. Misc. Doc., no. 21, p. 20). It is also in the Philad. ed. of the Journal, i. 46; and was separately printed at Boston in 1774 and 1775, and at New York in 1776, with other documents (Sabin, iv. nos. 15,581-83; Haven in Thomas, ii. pp. 642-43). It has since been given in Force, 4th ser., i. 934; N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 437-41; N. Jersey Archives, x. 522; Spencer's United States, i. 348, 381; Griffeth's Historical Notes, 136. Cf. Ramsay's So. Carolina, i. 242; John Adams's Works, i. 159, x. 273; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 377; Amer. Quart. Review, i. 413.