...Society's having met on the faid 7th of June, and agreed, 4 that the fum of icol, (hould be raifed, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-fubjects, who, faithful to the characters of Englifhmcn, preferring death to fljvèry, were,...

...on behalf of “our beloved American fellowsubjects” who had “preferred death to slavery,” and “were for that reason only inhumanly murdered by the king's troops” at the Lexington skirmish, April 19, 1775. This society evidently expired with the incarceration of its...

...entered into by such of the members present who might approve the purpose, for raising the sum of £100 to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who. faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for...

...entered into by such of the members present who might approve the purpose, for raising the sum of f 100 to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow^subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for...

...the Constitutional Society, advertised in several London newspapers the start of a subscription for the relief of the "widows, orphans and aged parents...Reason only, inhumanly murdered by the KING'S troops." This tactic resulted in Tooke's prosecution by the government for seditious libel; y but it also inspired...

...the Constitutional Society, advertised in several London newspapers the start of a subscription for the relief of the "widows, orphans and aged parents...Reason only, inhumanly murdered by the KING'S troops." This tactic resulted in Tooke's prosecution by the government for seditious libel; 9 but it also inspired...

...separate times, the latest coming in 1794: He was arrested in 1777 for publishing a plea for money to 'be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans,...parents, of our beloved American fellow subjects, who ... preferring death to slavery, were ... inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at or near Lexington...

...rights. It was at a meeting of this group that Tooke moved that a subscription of £100 be raised for the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen preferring death to slavery, were, for...

...rights. It was at a meeting of this group that Tooke moved that a subscription of £100 be raised for the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen preferring death to slavery, were, for...

...the King's-Arms Tavern, Cornhill, London, June 7, 1775 ; and a subscription of a hundred pounds voted "to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for...