To the PUBLIC.

AS it has been repeatedly suggested to the Publisher, by
Persons, who have seen the Manuscript, that Num-
bers would be ready to suspect they were not really the
Writings of PHILLIS, he has procured the following
Attestation, from the most respectable Characters in Boston,
that none might have the least Ground for disputing their
Original.

WE whose Names are under-written, do assure the
World, that the POEMS specified in the following Page,*
were (as we verily believe) written by Phillis, a young
Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an
uncultivated Barbarian from Africa, and has ever since
been, and now is, under the Disadvantage of serving as
a Slave in a Family in this Town. She has been examin-
ed by some of the best Judges, and is thought qualified
to write them.

His Excellency THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Governor.

The Hon. ANDREW OLIVER, Lieutenant-Governor.

The Hon. Thomas Hubbard, | The Rev. Charles Chauncey, D. D.
The Hon. John Erving, | The Rev. Mather Byles, D. D.
The Hon. James Pitts, | The Rev. Ed. Pemberton, D. D.
The Hon. Harrison Gray, | The Rev. Andrew Elliot, D. D.
The Hon. James Bowdoin, | The Rev. Samuel Cooper, D. D.