Extract from ‘In Provincial Congress, Exeter, New Hampshire, 6 June 1775’ by Matthew Thornton, President. Catalogue ref: CO 5/939 f.164
These resolutions were passed by the provincial congress of New Hampshire, in the town of Exeter.
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IN PROVINCIAL CONGRESS
EXETER June 6 1775
Whereas it has pleased the Righteous GOVERNOR of the World to permit evil Men, on both Sides of the Atlantic, to ripen their Plots against the Liberties of America into Violence and begin a Scene of Bloodshed in this Land; in order to force from us an entire Surrender of the Blessings of Freedom which our Fathers sought, and so dearly purchased, in the Settlement of this Country. And whereas, with an almost entire Union, it has been thought necessary to raise, within this Colony, a Body of Men for the Purpose of opposing our Enemies in their manifest further Designs of Violence.
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- How did the Congress see British actions as a conspiracy against them?
- How did the colonists use their British heritage to support their claims?
- What does this source tell us about the use of religion in colonial political thought?