Sheffield Declaration

Sheffield Declaration

The Sheffield Declaration, also known as the Sheffield Resolves, was a Colonial American petition against British tyranny and manifesto for individual rights, drawn up as a series of resolves approved by the Town of Sheffield, Massachusetts, on January 12 1773 and printed in "The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas’s Boston Journal" on February 18 1773. It is said that the meeting took place in the Colonel John Ashley House. The resolves were written by Theodore Sedgwick. [James M. Banner, Jr.. "Sedgwick, Theodore"; "American National Biography Online", February 2000.]

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Further reading

*Brown, Richard D. "Massachusetts Towns Reply to the Boston Committee of Correspondence, 1773". "The William and Mary Quarterly", Third Series, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 22-39.
*Brown, Richard D. "Revolutionary politics in Massachusetts: the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the towns, 1772–1774". Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.


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