{"id":523,"date":"2015-03-08T04:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecafeprojects.com\/declarationproject\/?p=523"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:51:28","slug":"gageborough-ma-declaration-of-independence-from-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Gageborough, MA, Declaration of Independence from Britain (June 7, 1776)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Prizing both brevity and independence as virtues in composition, Gageborough, MA, joins the 1776 declaration bandwagon on June, 7, 1776<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Gageborough, MA, Declaration of Independence\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Gageborough, agreeable to a resolve of the House of Representatives, of June 7, 1776, requesting the several Towns in this Colony to show their sentiments respecting the Independence of the Colonies:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MR. STEPHEN WARREN,\u00a0<em>Moderator.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>Resolved, nem. con.<\/em>, That, if the honourable Congress, agreeable to the earnest desire of this Town, for the safety of the Colonies, shall declare them independent of the Kingdom of\u00a0<em>Great Britain<\/em>, they (the inhabitants) will cheerfully, to the utmost of their power, support them in the measure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source:\u00a0<em>American Archives<\/em>, 6th series, Peter Force, Editor, 1843 (p. 704)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Image Source:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=american+revolution+image+creative+commons&#038;espv=2&#038;biw=1513&#038;bih=741&#038;tbm=isch&#038;imgil=x7Liy0VSFnB3WM%253A%253B1fjYmDNdxgT5OM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fdionneford.com%25252F2012%25252F02%25252Ftreasure-chest-thursday-a-revolutionary-war-ancestor-and-two-new-cousins%25252F&#038;source=iu&#038;pf=m&#038;fir=x7Liy0VSFnB3WM%253A%252C1fjYmDNdxgT5OM%252C_&#038;dpr=0.83&#038;usg=__1xPG91nOg8rpCNsPMwBtfmwYC_4%3D&#038;ved=0CCcQyjc&#038;ei=yU2LVd_2LMusyASCzIOIDQ#imgrc=x7Liy0VSFnB3WM%253A%3B1fjYmDNdxgT5OM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fdionneford.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F02%252F800px-BattleofLongisland-1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fdionneford.com%252F2012%252F02%252Ftreasure-chest-thursday-a-revolutionary-war-ancestor-and-two-new-cousins%252F%3B800%3B529&#038;usg=__1xPG91nOg8rpCNsPMwBtfmwYC_4%3D<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Further reading:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>American Scripture: The Making of the Declaration of Independence<\/em>, Pauline Maier, New York: Vintage, 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Prizing both brevity and independence as virtues in composition, Gageborough, MA, joins the 1776 declaration bandwagon on June, 7, 1776 Gageborough, MA, Declaration of Independence\u00a0 At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Gageborough, agreeable to a resolve of the House of Representatives, of June 7, 1776, requesting the several Towns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,21,35,40],"tags":[51,126,86,90,123],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-41","category-18century","category-declaration-collection","category-declaration-of-independence","category-state-and-local-declarations-of-independence-that-precede-july-4","tag-america","tag-american-revolution","tag-great-britain","tag-independence","tag-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}