WEATHERSFIELD, Vt. (WCAX) - Local residents are bringing a piece of their town’s Revolutionary War history to the stage, performing a play based on a 250-year-old document discovered in a vault.

The play, “We Most Ardently Desire,” centers around an associate pledge from the provincial government of New York that town archivist Patti Arrison found several years ago.

“And then at the end I saw it was signed July 1st, 1775, and so I had to figure out what it was,” Arrison said. Thanks to a grant from the Vermont Historical Society, Arrison researched and wrote the story.

The play depicts a debate that took place in 1775 among the 24 patriarchs in Weathersfield about whether to sign the formal complaint against the British parliament, and ultimately rejecting the authority of the British c

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