M.Strahan,

Phelad.
July 5. 1775

You are as Member of Parliament,

ак

and one of that Majority which has my Country to Destruction __

Doomed

- You have begun to burnour Towns,

and murder our

Your Hands .

Your

People. _ Look upon

are

stained with the

-You and I were

-Hands! - They
Blood of Relations. – Jou
Cong Friends: - You
my, and

Jam,

are now.

my

Ene

Your, Branklin

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