Oliverbranch PT3
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Once removed, your Majesty will find your faithful subjects on this Continent ready & willing at all times as they ever have been, with their Lives & Fortunes to assert & maintain the Rights & Interests of your Majesty & of our Mother Country.
We therefore beseech your Majesty, that your royal Authority & Influence may be graciously interpos’d , to procure us relief from our afflicting Fears & Jealousies occasion’d by the System before mention’d & to settle Peace through every Part of your dominions, with all Humility submitting to your Majesty’s wise Consideration, whether it may not be expedient for facilitating those important Purposes that your Majesty be pleas’d to direct some Mode by wch the united applications of your faithful Colonists to the Throne in Pursuance of their common Councils may be improv’d into a happy & permanent reconciliation; & that in the mean time measures may be taken for preventing the further Destruction of the Lives of your Majesty’s Subjects, & that such Statutes as more immediately distress any of your Majesty’s Colonies be repeal’d. For by such Arrangements as your Majesty’s Wisdom can form, for collecting the united Sense of your American People we a(re) convinced your Majesty would receive such satisfactory Proofs of the dispo(si)tion of the Colonists toward their Sovereign & parent state that the wish’d for opportunity would soon be restor’d to them of evincing the sincerity of their Professions by every Tes(timony o)f devotion becoming the m(ost dutiful) Subjects & the most affectionate Colonists.
That your Majesty may enjoy a long & prosperous Reign & that your Descendants may govern your dominions with Honor to themselves & Happiness to their Subjects is our sincere & fervent prayer.
Congress
JOHN HAN(COCK)
For the Colony of New-Hampshire
JOHN LANGDON
THOMAS CUSHING
of Massachusetts
SAMUEL ADAMS
JOHN ADAMS
ROBERT TREAT PAINE
of Rhode-Island
ST'N HOPKINS
SAMUEL WARD
ELIPHALET DYER
of Connecticut
ROGER SHERMAN,
SILAS DEANE
of New York
PHILIP LIVINGSTON
JAMES DUANE
JOHN ALSOP
FRANCIS LEWIS
JOHN JAY
ROBERT LIVINGSTON, JR.
LEWIS MORRIS
WILLIAM FLOYD
HENRY WISNER
of New-Jersey
WILLIAM LIV(INGSTON)
JOHN DE (HART)
RIC'D S(MITH)
For the Colony of Pennsylvania
JOHN DICKINSON
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
GEORGE ROSS
JAMES WILSON
CHARLES HUMPHREYS
EDWARD BIDDLE
of Delaware Counties
CAESAR RODNEY
THOMAS McKEAN
GEORGE READ
Colony of Maryland
MATTHEW TILGHMAN
THOMAS JOHNSON, JR.
WILLIAM PACA
SAMUEL CHASE
THOMAS STONE
of Virginia
PATRICK HENRY, Jun'R.
RICHARD HENRY LEE
EDMUND PENDLETON
BENJAMIN HARRISON
THOMAS JEFFERSON