Diary of William Pynchon, Monday, February 12, 1776

Clear and cold. Mr. Vans¹ assured me last evening in the street that he disliked the proclamation read at meeting, it being too much for independence on G. B.

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¹ William Vans, a merchant of Salem, who seems to have been for a time in doubt as to which side it would be wisest to espouse.

SOURCE: Fitch Edward Oliver, Editor, The Diary of William Pynchon of Salem, p. 3-4