New-York, July 7, 1769 At this alarming crisis when we are threatened with a deprivation of those invaluable rights, which our ancestors purchased with their blood ... A number of the inhabitants of this city, have determined to drop all party distinction that may have originated from difference in sentiments in other matters--to form ouselves into a society, under the general and honourable appellation, of the United Sons of Liberty,--and strictly to adhere to the following resolutions.