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Oaths of Allegiance from Shutesbury, Montague and Leveret

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I do truly and Sincerely acknowledge profess testify and declare
that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is, and of right ought to be
a free Sovereign and independent State; and I do Swear that I will bear
true faith and Allegiance to the said Commonwealth & that I will de-
fend the Same against all traitorous conspiracies and all hostile at-
tempts whatsoever: and that I do renounce with and abjure all
Allegiance, subjection and obedience: to the King Queen or Go-
vernment of Great Britain, and every other foreign Power
whatsoever: and that no Foreign Prince, ------Prelate
State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction ^Superiority, Autho
rity
, preeminince, Authority, dispensing or other Power
in any matter, civil, ecclesiastical or Spiritual within
this Commonwealth: except the Authority and power which is or
may be vested by their Constituents in the Congress of the
United States, and I do further testify and declaere that no man
or body of Men hath or can have any right to absolve or
discharge me from the obligation of this oath declaration
or affirmation, and that I do make this acknowledgement
Profession testimony declaration denial renunciation and
abjuration heartily and truly according to the common
meaning and acceptation of the foregoing words, without
any equivocation mental Evasion, or Secret reservation what
soever. So help me God.

  xWilliam Gunn xSamuel Roish[?]
xAsahel Gunn xMartin Gunn xMoses Wright
    xEliphas Arms
Elkanah Baker xSamal Smead xShamas Arms
xZacheriah Whitney xAbel Clary xSolomon Andson
  xSilas Pomerle xJames Stewart
xOliver Dresser xMoses Dresser xGeorge Chadwick
xElisha Bartlet xCalvin Butler xEbeneser Grover
xIra Scott xThomas Atherton xTad Benjamen
xNathaniel Johnson xJonthn Crosbee  
xZachariah Drury xMoses Sawyer xCalel[?] Sturtevant
xJonathan Russell xThomas Sawyer  
xEbenezer Lock xElisha Washburn  
xJames Ross xLemuel Peman  
xBenja Stiles xTare[?] Witherbee  
xEdward Painie xDavid Higgins  
xNoah Porter xJohn Caswell  
xHezekiah Field xSamuel Caswell  
xSamuel Harris xRichard Caswell  
xJames Red[?] x Phinehas Stevens  
xJosiah Houghton    
xBesaliel[?] Wilder xAsa Hull montague yeoman  
  xJoseph Roy}  
xLemuel Leach xEphram Lock}yeomen Wendell  
    Elihu Gunn
xNathan Smith} xLuke Osgood Wendell govt Nathan Witmon
xJoseph Latham}of Montague yeomen xWilliam Washburn 2d  
  xJohn Weatherbee 2d  
xJames Tuttle} xEben,r Marsh junr }  
xMoses Burnham} xAbel Cushman}of Montague yeomen xC Henrinks}of Shutesbury
xSamuel Fuller } xDavid Wright} xSturtevant} yeomen
x Whiten Cooley}of Montague Yeomen xEnos Marsh} xA
xMarch Bisselle} xJoshua Marsh xAsa Smith
of Montgue yeoman
xSamel Call Do Do xSamel Weaver  
xJosiah Rice Jnr} xPhilip Harvey xNoah Graves
of Leverett Yeoman
xLuke Montague}of Leverett yeomen   x John Mors
xMoses Temple Yeoman Shutesbury   xWilliam Mors
xMicah Pratt} xJoshua Scott Deerfield yeoman xIsrael Wilde
xArtemus Pratt}of Shutesbury yeoman    
xAsa Fuller
of Montague yeoman