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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Exeter on November 19, 1765, principal gentlemen assembled and signed a combination pledging to aid peace officers and defend public peace and private property against threats stemming from the Stamp Act.
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Whereas many Evil-minded Persons have on Account of the Stamp-Act, concluded that all the Laws of this Province, and the Execution of the same, are at an End, and that Crimes against the public Peace and private Property may be committed with Impunity; which Opinion will render it unsafe for the Peace Officers to exert themselves in the execution of their Offices -Therefore, we the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Exeter, to prevent ( as much as in us lies ) the Evils naturally consequent upon such an Opinion, and for preserving the Peace and good Order of the Community, and of our own Properties ; Do hereby Combine, Promise and engage to assemble ourselves together, when and where need requires, in aid of the Peace Officers, and to stand by and defend them, in the Execution of their respective Offices, and each other in our respective Properties and Persons, to the utmost, against all disturbers of the public Peace, and invaders of private Property,-- Witness our Hands, at Exeter this 19th Day of November, A. D. 1765.
N. B. The above was sign'd by a great Number of the Inhabitants of Exeter.
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Exeter
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19th Day Of November, A. D. 1765
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the above was sign'd by a great number of the inhabitants of exeter.
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On Friday last, a number of the principal Gentlemen of Exeter, upon hearing that there had been some threatning Speeches utter'd against private Property there, assembled and entered into a Combination for the security of the public Peace and good Order, as follows, viz.--Whereas many Evil-minded Persons have on Account of the Stamp-Act, concluded that all the Laws of this Province, and the Execution of the same, are at an End, and that Crimes against the public Peace and private Property may be committed with Impunity; which Opinion will render it unsafe for the Peace Officers to exert themselves in the execution of their Offices -Therefore, we the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Exeter, to prevent ( as much as in us lies ) the Evils naturally consequent upon such an Opinion, and for preserving the Peace and good Order of the Community, and of our own Properties ; Do hereby Combine, Promise and engage to assemble ourselves together, when and where need requires, in aid of the Peace Officers, and to stand by and defend them, in the Execution of their respective Offices, and each other in our respective Properties and Persons, to the utmost, against all disturbers of the public Peace, and invaders of private Property,-- Witness our Hands, at Exeter this 19th Day of November, A. D. 1765.