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.

" Abraham Miller, "Adam Seaman, " Andrew Carehart, " John Carehart, " Gilbert Brundige, "John Willis, " James Jameson, " Gilbert Merrit." '

William Brown, Isaac Anderson, William Crooker, Andrew Lyon, John Buflot, John Slater, Israel Seaman,

The following very cautiously worded Card, appended to a full copy of the disclaimer and declaration, dated on the twenty-fourth of September, which bore the signature of Timothy Wetmore, Esquire, was published, forty days afterwards :

" The above Paper, like many others, being liable " to misconstruction, and having been understood, by "many, to import a Recognition of a Right in the " Parliament of Great Britain, to bind America, in all " cases whatsoever, and to signify that the Colonies " labour under no Grievances, which is not the Sense "I meant to convey, I think it my Duty to explain "my Sentiments upon the Subject, and thereby pre- " vent future Mistakes

'' It is my Opinion that the Parliament have no " Right to Tax America, tho' they have a Right to ^-M " regulate the Trade of the Empire. I am further of ; " Opinion that several Acts of Parliament are Griev- " ances ; and that the execution of them ought to be " Opposed, in such Manner as may be Consistent with " the Duty of a Subject to our Sovereign ; tho' I can- " not help expressing my Disapprobation of many " violent Proceedings, in some of the Colonies.