A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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futions of the clergy, merchants, and
lawyers, to commit a thoufand mad exceffes,
run into open rebellion, and imbrue
their hands in civil blood, under
the idea of oppofing injury, oppreffion,
and ilavery, though in reality to promote
what has long been the grand aim
of their infiigators-INDEPENDENcE.
Having been a witnefs of the effects of
the conventions of Diffenters in New­
England, particularly that I have juft
been fpeaking of tlS taking place at Newhaven
in 1764, which was annually continued,
without the lcmft animadverfion from
any perfon in authority in Great-Britain,
notwithfianding the intent ofit was wholly.
prejudicial to her interefis; I was the
more mortified with the implied cenfure
of a great man in very high office upon a
meeting of the epifcopal clergy, in his
anfwer to an addrefs they took the liberty
to prefent to him, in the vain hope of its
being productive of fome benefit to the
church