At a general meeting of the magistrates, lawyers, freeholders, and other respectable inhabitants of the county of Gloucester, in New Jersey, held at the Court-House in the said county, July 18, 1774, the following resolutions were read, maturely considered, and unanimously agreed to; the third only excepted.

ROBERT FRIEND PRICE, Esq; Chairman.

1. Resolved, That Boston is now suffering in the common cause of all British America, and therefore merits the most speedy and effectual aid in the power of the whole to give.

2. Resolved, That if the other colonies withhold their assistance, until Massachusetts is crushed and deprived of her liberty by the high and dangerous arm of Parliamentary power, now stretched forth over her for that purpose, they may, with good reason, expect soon to share the same fate.

3. Resolved, That we are of opinion, the most proper and effectual aid Massachusetts can receive from the other colonies would naturally and even necessarily, result from their coming into a total cessation of trade with Great-Britain and the British West-Indies *, until the oppressive and arbitrary acts, under which she so heavily groans, are totally and effectually repealed, and the town of Boston restored to her ancient rights and privileges.

*What here relates to the West-Indies, being objected to by some; their reasons were heard and considered; and then, on the question being put, the resolve was passed by a very great majority.

4. Resolved, That if we suffer the Parliament of Great-Britain to tax us without our consent, they may then establish over us, at our expence (which they would never be able to do at their own) a military force, sufficient completely to subject us to the arbitrary will of the Minister, or, in his own words, to lay us at his feet.

5. Resolved, That we are of opinion, the measures are already begun, that will, step by step, at length fix us in this deplorable situation, unless we are virtuous enough to unite, and, at all events, keep the hand of the British Parliament out of our pockets.

6. Resolved, That if there are any amongst us, so destitute of the generous extensive feelings of the human heart, so void of every true idea of the real advantages of liberty, or so sordidly attached to, what they may think, their present particular interest, or even so deluded with hopes of future promotion from those arbitrary invaders of our rights, in case they succeed against us, as to refuse to unite with their Brethren in such lawful ways and means, as shall be generally deemed necessary effectually to guard our pockets against them, they will, to their eternal disgrace, demonstrate to the world, that they are really endowed with but a very small portion of the most lovely and noble qualities of the human mind. In short, such conduct will even disgrace the very form they bear, and cause their fellow men to blush, on beholding such meanness in creatures of their own shape.

7. Resolved, That if we do not acquit ourselves like men on this important occasion, our truly generous and patriotic friends on the other side the water, will have just cause to be ashamed that they ever stood forth in our behalf. We shall demonstrate to them and the world, that we did not deserve their aid or friendship, that they did wrong in endeavouring to preserve us free, because we are only worthy to be slaves.

8. Resolved, That as the fate of Boston must, under providence, greatly depend upon the part the other colonies shall take, in this, most important of all temporal causes; every day she is kept in suspense, respecting their resolutions, must be to her, a day of great anxiety and keen distress; therefore, and as she is suffering bitterly from another quarter, and in the general cause, they seem to be in duty and honor bound to form their resolutions as speedy as possible. Unnecessary delays, in this case, would indeed be cruelty.

9. Resolved, That if a general non-importation does not take place, we are of opinion that a general non-consumption ought; and in this public manner declare, that we are heartily disposed inflexibly to engage therein.

10. Resolved, That we the inhabitants of Gloucester county aforesaid do, with pleasure and sincerity, profess and acknowledge ourselves to be truly loyal and dutiful subjects of George the Third, King of Great-Britain, &c. and that we will, to the utmost of our power, assist in carrying into execution any general, legal, well concerted measure, for the support and preservation of British liberty, in its genuine and primitive purity, throughout all these his extensive, and (till very lately) happy dominions in America.

11. Resolved, That as a general Congress of Delegates from each respective Colony, is proposed to be held at Philadelphia, in order to deliberate upon some general legal plan of opposition to the arbitrary measures of the British Parliament, lately devised, and now, with unexampled rigor, carrying into execution, manifestly with a design to overturn, and (if not prevented) totally lay waste all the ancient chartered forms of civil government throughout British America, and even, if possible, extirpate the very idea of liberty from these, our once free and happy regions; and as some of the counties in this province have, and others are preparing to appoint committees, to meet at some suitable place, to be agreed on for that purpose, in order to choose delegates to represent this Colony at the said general Congress, so we also, approving the said measure, do appoint Robert Friend Price, John Hinchman, Samuel Harrison, John Cooper, John Sparks, James Hinchman, Joseph Ellis, Samuel Clement, Joseph Hugg, Isaac Mickle, Joseph Morgan, Thomas Clark, and Isaac Tomlinson, to act as a Committee of Correspondence with the other Colonies; and also to appoint a Committee of three of their own members, to meet the said Committees of the other counties, and assist them in choosing Delegates to attend the said general Congress for the purpose aforesaid. And we do also agree, that seven of this our Committee, shall be a sufficient number to transact business at all times.

12. Resolved, That it will be proper, and it is the desire of this meeting, that our said Committee do immediately set on foot a subscription for the relief of our suffering Brethren in Boston; and that they also receive and appropriate the same, in such sort, as to them shall seem most likely to answer the benevolent purpose intended.

Signed, by Order of the Meeting,

ROBERT FRIEND PRICE, Chairman

[ As appeared on August 8th 1774

To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet

SIR,

AS the three several copies of the Gloucester county resolves, published in the Packet, Gazette, and Journal, were, through hurry, and error of the Clerk in transcribing, rendered very incorrect, and consequently dissatisfactory to the people of the county; no two being exactly alike; you are therefore desired to publish the following, which is a true copy ]