Those who are acquainted with the methods which are very often employed by audacious partisans or by those more insidious supporters of a questionable proposition, for the instruction of an opponent in what way to do or to say what, if left to himself, he would not think of either saying or doing, in any manner, will be very likely to concur in the suspicion which prevails, that the following papers, each of them supplementary to the above-recited disclaimer and declaration, were the reasonable results of such, not always gentle, social or political or ecclesiastical or financial pressure as is, very generally, seen among the methods to which reference has been made.

" Rye, October 17th, 1774.

" We, the Subscribers, having been suddenly and

^"unwarily drawn in, to sign a certain Paper pub-

\"lished in Mr. Rivington's Gazetteer, of the 13th

"instant; and being now, after mature deliberation,

"fully convinced that we acted preposterously, and

" without adverting properly to the Matter in dispute

Roger Purdy, Gilbert Brundige, Joseph Clark, James Gedney, James Purdy, John Adee, Nathaniel Purdy, Joseph Wilson, Benjamin Willson, James Hart, Silemon Halsted, James Budd, Thomas Kniffen, Gilbert Merrit, Esq. John Carhart, Israel Seaman, William Hall, Capt. Abraham Bush, Andrew Lion, James Jamisson, Thomas Brown, Gilbert Thaell, Jun., Joseph Merrit, Jun., Jonathan Gedney, JohnGuion, Elijah Hains, John Affrey, Hack. Purdy, Charles Thaell, Esq., John Kniffen, John Park, Joshua Gedney, Ebenezer Brown, John Slater, Benjamin Kniffen, Nehemiah Wilson , Gilbert Morris, Jr.,

" between the Mother Country and her Colonies, are, " therefore, sorry that we ever had any concern in " said Paper ; and we do by these Presents utterly " disclaim every part thereof, except our expressions " of Loyalty to the King and Obedience to the con- " stitutional Laws of the Realm.