By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A brief. : Whereas the United States, in Congress assembled, have recommended voluntary and free donations to be applied for the support of such of the citizens of the states of South-Carolina and Georgia as have been driven from their country and possessions by our inveterate and cruel enemy ... Given at Boston, the fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one .