The Pembroke Resolves are known for containing one of the early direct references in the American colonies to an impending split with England:"Resolved, that if the measures so justly complained of by this province and the other colonies on the continent, are persisted in and enforced by fleets and armies, they must (we think of it with pain) they will in a little time, issue in the total dissolution of the union between Mother Country and the colonies, to the infinite loss of the former and regret of the latter."