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it has been repeatedly uggeted to the Publiher, by Perons, who have een the Manucript, that Numbers would be ready to upect they were not really the Writings of PHILLIS, he has procured the following Attetation, from the mot repectable Characters in Boton, that none might have the leat Ground for diputing their Original.

whoe Names are under-written, do aure the World, that the pecified in the following Page, were (as we verily believe) written by Phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years ince, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa, and has ever ince been, and now is, under the Diadvantage of erving as a Slave in a Family in this Town. She has been examined by ome of the bet Judges, and is thought qualified to write them.

His Excellency, Governor,

The Hon., Lieutenant-Governor.

The Hon. Thomas Hubbard,

The Hon. John Erving,

The Hon. James Pitts,

The Hon. Harrion Gray,

The Hon. James Bowdoin,

John Hancock, Eq;

Joeph Green, Eq;

Richard Carey, Eq;

The Rev. Charles Chauncy, D.D.

The Rev. Mather Byles, D.D.

The Rev. Ed. Pemberton, D.D.

The Rev. Andrew Elliot, D.D.

The Rev. Samuel Cooper, D.D.

The Rev. Mr. Samuel Mather,

The Rev. Mr. John Moorhead,

Mr. John Wheatley, her Mater.

N.B. The original Attetation, igned by the above Gentlemen, may be een by applying to Archibald Bell, Bookeller, No. 8, Aldgate-Street.