May, 1769. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations, in New-England, in America; : begun and holden at Newport, within and for the said colony, on the first Wednesday in May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine, and ninth of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great-Britain, and so forth. …

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