2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
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A complete and authentic issue of The Gentleman's Magazine, July 1776, 44pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, Virginia instructs its delegates "to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent States, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the Crown or Parliament of Great Britain" Also from the interior under Account of the Proceedings of the American Colonists and running nearly a full page, we have a signed in type proclamation by John Hancock, President. In large part, ""Whereas His Britannic Majesty, in conjunction with the Lords and Commons of Great Britain, has, by a late Act of Parliament, excluded the inhabitants of these United Colonies from the protection of his Crown: And whereas no answer whatever to the humble Petitions of the Colonies for redress of grievances and reconciliation with Great Britain has been, or is likely to be, given ... and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said Crown should be totally suppressed ... That it be recommended to the respective Assemblies and Conventions of the United Colonies, where no Government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such Government as shall, in the opinion of the Representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general. By the middle of May 1776, eight colonies had decided that they would support independence. On May 15, 1776, the Virginia Convention passed a resolution that "the delegates appointed to represent this colony in General Congress be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent states."
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