ived
and treated as real Friends to this Country.

By order of the Committee,
RICHARD DERBY, _jun., Chairman_.

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Whereas I the Subscriber was so unfortunate (some Time since)
as to sign an Address to the late Governor Hutchinson, so
universally, and so justly, deemed an Enemy to American
Liberty and Freedom, I hereby in this public Manner declare
that at the Time I signed the said Address, I intended the
Good of my Country, and that only; but finding in my Sorrow it
had not that but quite a contrary Effect, I hereby renounce
the same Address in every Part, and hope my injured and
afflicted Fellow-Countrymen will overlook my past Misconduct,
as I am ready to assist them in their Struggles for Liberty
and Freedom in whatever Way I shall be called upon by them.

Londonderry, June 6, 1775. JOHN PRENTICE.

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_To the Publick_:

Whereas I the Subscriber signed an Address to the late
Governor Hutchinson, upon his leaving this Province: I now
declare my doing so was without any View of injuring the
Liberties of my Country, which I ever held sacred; nor had I
the least Design of giving Offence to any Individual within
the Circle of my Acquaintance, and had I conceived such an
Address would have been so generally disapproved of, I should
by no Means have signed it; and hope the Publick will freely
forgive this Error in their humble Servant. JONATHAN GLOVER.

* * * * *

Whereas I, the Subscriber, signed an Address to the late
Governor Hutchinson,--_I wish the Devil had had said Address
before I had seen it._

Marblehead, October 24, 1774. J. FOWLE.

John Prentice, of Marblehead, signed a similar card the same day.

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We have room but for one more of these political cards. The Rev. Samuel
Dana, of Groton, appears to have been suspected of "Toryism," and prints
the following in the "Essex Gazette":--

"I, the Subscriber, being deeply affected with the Miseries
bro't on this Country by a horrid Thirst for ill-got Wealth
and unconstitutional Power,--and lamenting my Unhappiness in
being left to adopt Principles in Politics different from the
Ge