Addressers of Gage
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The importance of the following addressers is out of all proportion to their apparent significance. They are an indispensable genesis to the history of the Loyalists. For the next seven years the Addressers were held up to their countrymen as traitors and enemies to their country. In the arraignments, which soon began, the Loyalists were convicted not out of their mouths, but out of their addresses. The ink was hardly dry upon the parchment before the persecution begain against all those who would not recant, and throughout the long year of the war, the crime of an addresser grew in its enormity, and they were exposed to the perils of tarring and feathering, the horrors of Simbury mines, a gaol or a gallows.
— James H. Stark, Boston, 1910.
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Address Presented to His Excellency Governor Gage,
June 11th, 1774, on his Arrival at Salem
To his Excellency Thomas Gage, Esq., Captain-General, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, and Lieutenant-General of his Majesty's Forces.
May it please your Excellency:
We, merchants and others, inhabitants of the ancient town of Salem, beg leave to approach your Excellency with our most respectful congratulations on your arrival in this place.
We are deeply sensible of his Majesty's paternal care and affection to this province, in the appointment of a person of your Excellency's experience, wisdom and moderation, in these troublesome and difficult times.
We rejoice that this town is graciously distinguished for that spirit, loyalty, and reverence for the laws, which is equally our glory and happiness.
From that public spirit and warm zeal to promote the general happiness of men, which mark the great and good, we are led to hope under your Excellency's administration for everything that may promote the peace, prosperity, and real welfare of this province.
We beg leave to commend to your Excellency's patronage the trade and commerce of this place, which, from a full protection of the liberties, persons and properties of individuals, cannot but flourish.
And we assure your Excellency we will make it our constant endeavors by peace, good order, and a regard for the laws, as far as in us lies, to render your station and residence easy and happy.
[Signers' names sorted alphabetically, original spelling preserved.]
Jacob Ashton
Joseph Blaney
Jos. Bowditch
David Britton
William Browne
Francis Cabot
William Cabot
S. Curwen
Andrew Dalglish
Nathaniel Daubney
George Deblois
Jos. Dowse
John Fisher
Samuel Flagg
P. Frye
Henry Gardner
Weld Gardner
Cabot Gerrish
William Gerrish
Nathan Goodale
Jonathan Goodhue
James Grant
Henry Higginson
Stephen Higginson
E. A. Holyoke
P. G. Kast
William Lilly
Benjamin Lynde
John Mascarene
Richard Nicholls
John Nutting
Timothy Orne
Benjamin Pickman
C. Gayton Pickman
William Pickman
Samuel Porter
Thomas Poynton
John Prince
Archelaus Putnam
Ebenezer Putnam
William Pynchon
Richard Routh
John Sargent
Rowland Savage
Nathaniel Sparhawk
John Turner
William Vans
William Wetmore
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The "Loyal Address from the Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of Boston to Governor Gage on his Departure for England, October 6, 1775," was signed as follows:
Thomas Amory
James Anderson
John Atkinson
Henry Barnes
David Barton
Wm. Bowes
Archibald Bowman
William Brattle
Ebenezer Brigham
George Brindley
Nathaniel Brinley
Thomas Brinley
Alexander Bymer
Nathaniel Cary
Andrew Cazneau
William Cazneau
Richard Clarke
William Codner
Nathaniel Coffin
William Coffin, jr.
Thomas Courtney
Archibald Cunningham
Benjamin Davis
Gilbert Deblois
Lewis Deblois
William Dickerson
Phillip Dumaresque
John Erving
Benjamin Fanieul, jr.
Samuel Fitch
Silvester Gardiner
Martin Gay
M. B. Goldthwait
John Gore
Lewis Gray
John Greecart
Francis Green
Richard Green
Stephen Greenleaf
Benjamin Gridley
Robert Hallowell
Benjamin M. Holmes
Daniel Hubbard
Samuel Hughes
John Hunt, 3d
William Hunter
Edward Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson, jr.
John Inman
Ralph Inman
William Jackson
Robert Jarvis
John Jeffries, jr.
Peter Johonnot
John Joy
Henry Lawton
George Leonard
Theophilus Lillie
Henry Lindall
Henry Lloyd
James Lloyd
Joshua Loring, jr.
John Love
Byfield Lyde
William McAlpine
Daniel McMasters
Archibald McNeal
James Murray
Adino Paddock
James Perkins
Nathaniel Perkins
William Lee Perkins
Wm. Perry
David Phips
John Powell
John Sampson
Joseph Scott
James Selkrig
John Semple
Robert Semple
Jonathan Simpson
Jonathan Snelling
Samuel Hirst Sparhawk
Hugh Tarbett
John Tayler
Nathaniel Tayler
William Tayler
John Timmins
Gregory Townsend
John Troutbeck
Joseph Turill
William Walter
Miles Whitworth
Edward Winslow
Isaac Winslow
Isaac Winslow, jr.
John Winslow, jr.
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The Loyal Address to Governor Gage on his Departure, October 14, 1775, of those Gentlemen who were driven from their Habitations in the Country to the Town of Boston, was signed by the following persons:
John Chandler
Nathaniel Chandler
William Chandler
Ward Chipman
Charles Curtis
Thomas Foster
Daniel Oliver
Peter Oliver, jr.
Peter Oliver, sen.
David Phips
Samuel Pine
James Putnam
James Putnam, jr.
Richard Saltonstall
Jonathan Stearns
Seth Williams, jr.
Edward Winslow, jr.
Pelham Winslow