Loads of local documents, called Resolutions, or, Resolves, were published in the years before the Declaration of Independence. The communities spoke before the country did.
Charles Thomson organised the communities of Pennsylvania to put pen to paper. The first set of Resolves in Pennsylania were from Hanover County, on 4 June 1774. They were written by Colonel Timothy Green whose father, Robert Green, was from County Antrim. They wanted a "closer union" but in the event of the London government "attempting to force unjust laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles".
The official marker plaque is at Old Derry Presbyterian Church, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Robert Green had been one of its founders in 1737; its first minister was Rev Richard Sanckey, "a native of the North of Ireland".
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Twelve of the Pennsylvania Resolves are summarised in A Bid For Liberty, the resolutions and declarations of independence adopted in the colony of Pennsylvania, 1774 to 1776, published in 1957.
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