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Uho began it7---The editor of Il. Portland Daily Advertiser, claims fo, " G credit of having been among the earl;aa, @ to signify a spirit of independence ifi' IT says ''the patriots of our own town Were ' advance of the declaration of Cop9rs.a U On tie 2lst day of May, l776, save SslIs' % historian of Portland, committee ma ~' raised to repair the forts on the neck aoS aa, on the same day the following vote nassa1 -S winch shows the people here had made N7 their minds in advance on tue great o,sa ton which was agitating the eontinerf Voted unanimously, as the determinat;@ of this town, that if the honorable Amay ,Ya can Congress- should, for the safety of fl. united colonies, declare them independea~, of the kingdom of Great Britain, the inbsS b' itants of this town, in meeting new as sembled, will solemnly engage with tbs, lives and fortunes, to support the Copore,, in the measure.' And 4his patriotic stanJ was taken amidst the ruins of our town one of the first among the sacrifices to 6h

 erty, when famine almost stared them i. their faces, and when most able boded;n habitants had left for the camp at Gam bridge, so that James Sullivan, afterward. Governor of Massachusetts) then Com missary of troops, stationed here, states in a letter to Samuel Freeman, that f tba General Court should order another rein fofeement, they must draw on this part or the province for women instead of men and for knives and forks instead of arms ,