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To the Public.
As it has been repeatedly suggested to the publisher,
by persons who have seen the manuscript, that
numbers would be ready to suspect they were not really
the writings of PHILLIS, he has procured the
following attestation, from the most respectable
characters in Boston, that none might have the least
ground for disputing their original.
WE whose names are under-written, do assure the
world, that the POEMS specified in the following
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, were (as we verily believe) written by
PHILLIS, a young Negro girl, who was but a few
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Africa, and has ever since been, and now is, under the
disadvantage of serving as a slave in a family in this
town. She has been examined by some of the best
judges, and is thought qualified to write them.
His Excellency THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Governor.
The Hon. ANDREW OLIVER, Lieutenant-Governor.
The Hon. THOMAS HUBBARD,
JOHN ERVING,
JAMES PITTS,
HARRISON GRAY,
JAMES BOWDOIN,
JOHN HANCOCK, Esq.
JOSEPH GREEN, Esq.
RICHARD CAREY, Esq.
The Rev. CHARLES CHAUNCEY, D. D.
MATHER BYLES, D. D.
EDWARD PEMBERTON, D. D.
ANDREW ELLIOT, D. D.
SAMUEL COOPER, D. D.
SAMUEL MATHER,
JOHN MOORHEAD,
Mr. JOHN WHEATLEY, her Master.
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