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The colonies that did not send delegates were Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and New Hampshire.

The Declaration

The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest. In addition to the specifics of the Stamp Act taxes, it asserted that

• Only the colonial assemblies had a right to tax the colonies.
• Trial by jury was a right, and the use of Admiralty Courts was abusive.
• Colonists possessed all the Rights of Englishmen.
• Without voting rights, Parliaments could not represent the colonists.

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Representatives

• Massachusetts - James Otis, Oliver Partridge, and Timothy Ruggles
• Connecticut - Eliphalet Dyer, David Rowland, and William Johnson
• Rhode Island - Metcalf Bowler and Henry Ward
• New York - William Bayard, John Cruger, Leonard Lispinard, Robert Livingston, and Philip Livingston
• New Jersey - Joseph Gordon, Hendrick Fisher, and Robert Ogden
• Pennsylvania - George Bryan, John Dickinson, and John Morton
• Delaware - Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney
• Maryland - William Murdock, Edward Tilghman, Thomas Ringgold
• South Carolina - Christopher Gadsden, Thomas Lynch, and John Rutledge

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Officers

• John Cotton served as secretary
• Timothy Ruggles of Massachusetts served as president ^[1]

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