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Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Boston on July 15, 1795, numerous merchants and inhabitants signed a dissent against the votes of a recent town meeting that approved the Treaty of Amity, Navigation and Commerce between the United States and Britain, asserting their individual right to express opinions on public measures.
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DISSENT
WHEREAS the votes adopted at a late meeting of this town, relative to the Treaty of Amity, Navigation and Commerce, between the United States and his Britannic Majesty. have been represented as expressing the unanimous sentiments of the merchants and other inhabitants upon that subject.
We the subscribers, unwilling to be implicated in the number of those, who approve of the doings of that meeting, and reserving to ourselves the right of expressing our opinion individually upon the merits or demerits of public measures, do hereby declare our disapprobation of and dissent from the votes of said meeting :
Boston, July 15, 1795
THOMAS RUSSELL, William Mackay, Mungo Mackay, John C. Jones, Joseph Russell, Charles Miller, Samuel G. Perkins, David Sears, Theodore Lyman, William Wetmore, William Powell, Francis Butler, Edward Edes, Alexander Hill, Stephen Codman, Henry Smith, Joseph Coolidge, Jonathan Mason, William Phillips, jun. Charles Sigourney, Charles Vaughan, Stephen Higginson, William Shattuck, Daniel Sargent, Thomas Amory, James Perkins, Daniel Sargent, jun. Samuel Blagge, Samuel Parkman, William Parsons, Lemuel Gardner, William Brown, Timothy Williams. Eben Parsons. Joseph May, B. C. Cutler. Gorham Parsons. Henry Newman, Samuel Elliot. Samuel Gardner, M. C. Groves, David Pearce. jun. Sylvanus Gray, Samuel Paine, Thomas Thompson, Benjamin Homer, John Gray, Joseph Head, Elisha Sigourney, William Bordman, jun. Simon Elliot, Joseph
Foter, Perrin May, John May. Jonathan Merry, Nathan Goodale, Joseph Roby, Nathaniel Goodwin, Ephraim Elliot, Eliakim More, Isaac Davis, Henry Hill, Jeremiah Kahler, George Domett, Joseph Howard, Jedediah Parker, John T. Sargent, John Codman, David Greene, Allen Crocker, Joseph Laughton, Joseph Pope, Henry Hunter, Samuel Wallis, James Cutler, Benjamin Busley, John Amory, jun. P. Conner, Samuel Salisbury, Francis Amory, Minot Thayer, Samuel Miller Thayer, Joseph Ripley, Nathaniel Balch, William Richardson, Joseph Carnes, John Winflow, Thomas Greenleaf, Lewis Carnes, Edward Cushing, Luke Baker, Samuel Sumner, William Spooner, Thomas Brewer, Stephen Higginson, jun. Samuel Salisbury, jun. Paul Revere, J. Baley, Jeremiah Bumstead, jun. Joshua Davis, jun. Robert Davis, Josiah Knapp, Edward Edes, jun. Joseph Hussey, William Mackay, jun. William Stackpole, Charles Miller, jun. Lewis Hayt, William Steventon, Isaac Rand, Benjamin Russell, Ebenezer Lewis Samuel Smith, Isaac Davis, jun. William Dall, Josiah Quincy, James Clark, John Crease, William Craven, Lemuel Hayward, Joseph Whipple, Edward Tuckerman, Nathaniel Curtis, Ezra Whitney, Ephraim May, Richard Faxon, Daniel Greenleaf, Ebenezer Frothingham, Moses May, Stephen Rawson, Samuel Davenport, Samuel Sprague, Moses W. Dana, Isaac Vose, A. Langford, Daniel Weld, Zeba Thayer, Aaron Warren, David Cobb, Samuel Bowen, John Williams, B. Butler, Thomas Dennie, John McLean, Charles Vose, Rufus Davenport, William Porter, John Boston, William Wood, John Osborne, L. Edes, Robert Robbins, Benjamin Fessenden, jun. Elisha Ticknor, John Kennedy, Samuel Ridgeway, Francis Greene, Amos Lincoln, William Smith, Thomas Curtis, John Howe, Benjamin Sumner, jun. John Webb Checkley, Joseph Crocker, Moses Ayres, William Ellion, Daniel Bates, John Homans, Jonathan Hunnewell, James Ray, P. R. Dalton, Henry Roby, Redford Webster, Thomas Healey, Samuel Beales, Andrew Leach, Samuel Danforth.
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Boston
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July 15, 1795
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declaration of dissent from the town meeting votes by numerous subscribers.
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Subscribers declare their disapprobation and dissent from the votes adopted at a late town meeting relative to the Treaty of Amity, Navigation and Commerce between the United States and his Britannic Majesty, which were represented as unanimous sentiments of merchants and inhabitants.