On this day 250 years ago in New York City “THE COMMITTEE OF MECHANICKS OF NEW-YORK” met with the five “DELEGATES WHO REPRESENTED THIS CITY AT THE GENERAL CONGRESS” and presented the following address:

We, being actuated by a real regard for the interest and prosperity of our injured and oppressed country, and influenced by a principle of gratitude, embrace this early opportunity to testify our most grateful and unfeigned acknowledgments for your readiness in accepting, and fidelity in executing the high and important trust reposed in you by your fellow-citizens and countrymen; and for the wise, prudent, and spirited measures which you have adopted (in conjunction with the worthy and respectable Delegates of the neighbouring Colonies) for obtaining a redress of grievances, and a restoration of our violated rights; and thereby re-establishing (upon the most permanent basis) that harmony and confidence between America and the parent state so ardently wished for by all good men, and so essentially necessary for the mutual advantage and security of both countries.

At the same time permit us to assure you that we are determined, as far as our influence extends, to exert ourselves in support of the common cause, and shall ever be ready to aid and assist in carrying the salutary measures of the General Congress into execution to the utmost of our power and ability.

The Delegates in turn addressed the Committee of Mechanics and praised “the unshaken zeal for constitutional liberty, which has ever distinguished the worthy inhabitants of this metropolis, and is nobly exerted at the present alarming crisis”

Source: https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-amarch%3A96624;

https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2218%20November%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=3&sr=

[Also on this day in 1969, my sisters were born. Happy Birthday Amanda and Rebecca!]