And the more effectually to carry the Association Agreement of the Continental Congress into execution, it was

Voted, That George Gray, Samuel Ashmead, Thomas Potts, John Bull, Jonathan Roberts, Jesse George, Samuel Erwin, John Roberts, (miller,) Frederick Antes, Benjamin Rittenhouse, Thomas Ashton, Melchior Waggoner, James Stroud, Charles Bensell, Daniel Keaster, Benjamin Jacobs, Joseph Mathers, Jacob Rife, Isaac Hughes, Frederick Weiss, James Diemer, Edward Milnor, John Bringhurst, Archibald Thomson, Isaac Knight, Jacob Styger, Andrew Knox, Abraham Lukens, Henry Derringer, James Potts, John Muck, Edward Bartholomew, Samuel Leech, John Jenkins, Joseph Lownes,* Andrew Haney, John Pawling, Senior, John Moore, George Shive, and Alexander Edwards, be a Committee for the County of Philadelphia, who are desired to attend at the house of Jacob Reaff, (late Henry Junken's,) on the 12th of December, at eleven o'clock, in order to proceed on such business as may be necessary.

Philadelphia, November 30, 1774.

TO THE COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO SEE THE MEASURES OF THE CONGRESS EXECUTED.

GENTLEMEN: As you are appointed by the several Colonies to see the measures of the Congress effectually executed, and to detect and expose every enemy to our cause, I would humbly submit to your wisdom and consideration the following queries:

1st. Whether, upon a serious and candid perusal of the pamphlet, entitled "A friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans," &c., printed at New-York, you think that any person can believe that the author, in writing and publishing said Address, intended to serve the Colonies?

2d. Whether every one, both friend and foe to our cause, must not consider it as an attempt to divide and distract the Colonies, and thereby aid the Ministry in their diabolical design of enslaving us?

3d. Whether this abuse of the people of New England, for their fortitude and perseverance, ought not to be resented by every friend to our liberties?

4th. Whether the manner in which he has treated the Grand Continental Congress, does not fall immediately under your notice?

5th. Whether the person who publickly avows opposition to their measures, and so warmly calls upon the people to refuse obedience to them, is not as wicked and dangerous an enemy as any Merchant who should import Goods contrary to their Resolves?

6th. Whether it does not, therefore, appear to be part of your duty to use every proper method of discovering the author, and publishing his name in the several newspapers on the Continent, as an enemy to America?

7th. Whether your neglecting this measure will not be an encouragement to abler pens to make like attempts, to the detriment of our cause?

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY (MARYLAND) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting, in Upper Marlborough, of a great number of respectable Freeholders and others of Prince George's County, qualified to vote for Representatives, John Rogers, Esquire, was chosen Moderator, and the following persons were nominated and appointed a Committee to carry into execution, within the said County, the Association of the American Continental Congress, to wit: Richard Duckett, Junior, Thomas Gantt, Senior, Colonel Joshua Beall, William Deakins, Senior, Abraham Boyd, Walter Bowie, Jonathan Slater, Wm Berry, Basil Waring, the Third, Thomas Williams, Walter Williams, Thomas Sprigg, Junior, George Lee, John Addison, Enoch Magruder, John Brown, Patrick Beall, John Low, Ignatius Wheeler, Luke Marbury, Nathaniel Newton, Josias Beall, James Hawkins, William Lyles, Junior, Hezekiah Wheeler, Richard Dent, Doctor William Beanes, Thomas Dent, George Fraser Hawkins, Jonathan Burch, Junior, Thomas Trueman, John Perry, William Magruder, Levin Coventon, Captain Jeremiah Belt, Thomas Morton, Senior, James Trueman, Thomas Gantt, Jun., John Cooke, Esquire, Doctor Richard Brooke, Doctor Leonard Holleday, Clement Holleday, Trueman Skinner, Allen Bowie, William Bowie, William Newman Dorsett, Robert Bowie, William Greenfield, Matthew Eversfield, David Crauford, John Rogers, Esquire, Humphrey Belt, William Beanes, Senior, Addison Murdoch, Samuel Hepburn, Nathaniel Magruder, Edward Sprigg, Osborn Sprigg, John Hepburn, Esquire, John Contee, Robert Whitaker, Charles Burgess, William Loch Weems, Benjamin Berry, Senior, Tobias Belt, Robert Tyler, Richard Duckett, Senior, Edward Hall, son of Henry, Barrick Duckett, Jeremiah Magruder, Isaac Lansdale, James Mullikin, Thomas Boyd, Marsh Marreen Duvall, Doctor Robert Pottinger, Captain James Crow, Samuel Snowden, Thomas Snowden, William Hall, Daniel Clarke, Joshua Clarke, Benjamin Harwood, Nicholas Watkins, and Benjamin Hall, son of Benjamin.

And it was resolved that any seven of them have power to act.

It was further resolved that the following persons be a Committee of Correspondence for the same County, to wit: Doctor Richard Brook, John Rogers, Esquire, Captain William Bowie, David Crauford, John Cooke, Esquire, John Contee, Addison Murdock, John Hepburn, Esquire, Robert Tyler, Josias Beall, Osborn Sprigg, Richard Duckett, Junior, Matthew Eversfield, and Captain Joshua Beall.

And it was also resolved, that the following persons, to wit: Doctor Richard Brooke, Josias Beall, Robert Tyler, John Rogers, Esquire, Joshua Beall, William Bowie, Addison Murdock, Walter Bowie, Thomas Gantt, Junior, George Lee, Osborn Sprigg, Edward Sprigg, and David Crauford, be a Committee to attend at any Provincial Convention to be held at Annapolis; and that the said Committee have authority to vote in the said Convention for Delegates to attend at a Congress to be held at Annapolis; and that the said Committee have authority to vote in said Convention for Delegates to attend at a Congress to be held at Philadelphia, on the tenth of May next, and enter into all such resolutions which the said Provincial Convention may judge necessary and expedient.

And ordered that the foregoing proceedings be published in the Maryland Gazette. Signed per order,

HUGH LYON, Clerk.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders of Elizabethtown, in Essex County, in the Province of New-Jersey, on Tuesday, the first day of December, 1774,

STEPHEN CRANE, Esquire, in the Chair:

The Committee of Correspondence for the County of Essex having produced the Association lately entered into by the Delegates of the American Colonies, met in General Congress, the same was read to, and then unanimously approved and adopted by the whole Assembly; who were pleased at the same time to signify their thanks to the Delegates of this Colony for their faithful services.

It was then proposed, that, pursuant to the eleventh Article of the said Association, a large Committee should be now chosen for the purposes therein mentioned, which was also agreed to, and the following persons were accordingly appointed, viz: Jonathan Hampton, Matthias Williamson, Elias Dayton, Isaac Woodruff, William Burnett, Wm Herriman, Oliver Spencer, George Ross, Edward Thomas, Cornelius Hetfield, John Blanchard, Ephraim Tyrrel, Abraham Clarke, Robert Ogden, Junior, Jeremiah Smith, Richard Townley, Junior, Samuel Shotwell, David Miller, Thomas Woodruff, John Clawson, Jonathan Dayton, Ephraim Marsh, Recompence Stanbury, Jedediah Swan, William Parsons, Samuel Potter, William Bott, Jonathan Williams, Christopher Marsh, Isaac Wynants, Daniel Halsey.

After which the Committee of Correspondence informed the Assembly that, having executed the services for which they had been particularly appointed, they had thought proper to dissolve themselves, in order that the inhabitants

* TO THE PUBLICK.—My name having appeared in the publick papers as one of a Committee to carry into execution some late conclusions, which was without my privity or consent, and has occasioned a great deal of uneasiness to my mind, and as, upon serious and deliberate consideration, I have not been free to attend on that occasion, nor do not purpose to be any ways active therein, I think it right to give this publick notice.

JOSEPH LOWNES.

Philadelphia, January 25, 1775.