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Whereas: Abel and I�,.ate Barbado��vc�er� enslaved�.nd emancipated by Jahn �imonds of Le�ing�on prior to <br /> �775; and <br /> Whereas: James CJeorge Barbadoes, grandsan af Abel a�d Kat� Barbadaes, was a faunding m�mber of�h� <br /> Massachusetts t�eneral Colared Assoclatian; and <br /> Whereas: �n 2(J22, the Mas�ach�setts legislature passed a bill, signed i�.to law by Gavernor�harles D. <br /> Baker, Jr. making J�.ly 8 Massachusetts Emancipation I�ay also known as C,�7uock Walk.�r Day in <br /> th� +�ommonw�alth af Massachusetts. <br /> NO W, T.H�REF'(JR.�, WE �'HE SELECT BOARD of the Town of L,exington, Massachuse�ts, do hereby <br /> proclaim July $, 2023 as <br /> 1�7as�sach u��etts .�;��z an�ci atio�z .�►a aka uock T��alke� .Da <br /> p y � <br /> and urge all of the citizer�s of th� Tawn of Lexingtan ta celebra�e the tenacity and audacity af+Quock �alker, <br /> while building upon his legacy to make Lexin�ton, and th� Commanwealth, a more just place�o exercise our <br /> natural, essential, and unalienable �ights. <br /> IN WITNE�� W�-IE�:E(JF, we have set our hands and caus�d the seal �f Lexingtan to be af�xed herewith an <br /> th� 21�t of June 2023. <br /> JOSEPH N.PATO,CHAIR ,>�; SUZANNE E.BARRY <br /> � <br /> #<: x�< _ ��.; <br /> � >: <br /> �.:.;, �' � `� � ' <br /> 4.��� ''"a��`;��� ��`� � 2 � <br /> W��Si. <br /> I <br /> f � <br /> DOUGLAS M.�'LJCENTE JILL I.HAI <br /> IVIARI�D,SANDEEN <br />