14. That it is the indispensable duty of these colonies, to the best of sovereigns, to the mother country, and to themselves, to endeavor, by a loyal and dutiful address to his majesty, and humble application to both houses of parliament, to procure the repeal of the act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, of all clauses of any other acts of parliament whereby the jurisdiction of the admiralty is extended as aforesaid, and of the other late acts for the restriction of American commerce.'] … The delegates present from only six of the colonies—except Ruggles and Ogden—signed the petition; those from New York, Connecticut, and South Carolina not being authorized to sign. On the 25th of October, the congress adjourned. Special measures were taken to transmit the proceedings to the unrepresented colonies. The several assemblies, on meeting, heartily approved of the course of their delegates who concurred in the action of congress; but Ruggles, of Massachusetts, was reprimanded by the speaker, in the name of the House, and Ogden, of New Jersey, was hung in effigy by the people. The action of the assemblies was announced in the press. Meanwhile the Sons of Liberty, through their committees of correspondence, urged a continental Union; pledged a mutual support in case of danger; in some instances stated the numbers of armed men that might be relied on; and thus evinced a common determination to resist the execution of the Stamp Act." _R. Frothingham, Rise of the Republic of the United States, chapter 5._ ALSO IN: _T. Pitkin, History of the United States, volume 1, appendices 5-9._ _H. Niles, Principles and Acts of the Revolution (edition of 1876), pages 155-168._ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1765-1768. Treaties with the Indians at German Flats and Fort Stanwix. Cession of Iroquois claims to western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. The drawing of the Indian boundary line.