Elizabeth T. Tiano
This document, one of many issued by colonial governments in 1776, is perhaps the best of the state statements for justifying independence from England.
Reprinted from Hoadly, Charles J., LL.D.
The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut
. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. 1890. Vol. 15 pp. 451-453.
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