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Salem printing. In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled... Salem, Massachusetts-Bay: E. Russell, 1776.
Copies were sent by order of the Massachusetts Council to the "Ministers of each Parish, of every Denomination, within this State.... that they severally be required to read the same to their respective Congregations, as soon as divine Service is ended... on the first Lord's-Day after they shall have received it..." |