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FREETOWN.—Mr. Thomas Durfee.
RAYNHAM.—Mr. Benjamin King.
EASTON.—Captain Eliphalet Leonard.
BERKLEY.—(None.)
COUNTY OF YORK.
YORK.—Captain Daniel Bragdon.
KITTERY.—Edward Cutts, Esquire, Charles Chauncey, Esquire.
WELLS.—Mr. Ebenezer Sayer.
BERWICK.—Mr. Ichabod Goodwin, Junior.
ARUNDEL.—Mr. John Hovey.
BIDDEFORD.—James Sullivan, Esquire.
PEPERELBOROUGH.—(None.)
COUNTY OF DUKES.
EDGARTON.—(None.)
CHILMARK.—(None.)
TISBURY.—(None.)
COUNTY OF NANTUCKET.
SHERBURN.—(None.)
COUNTY OF WORCESTER.
WORCESTER.—Captain Timothy Bigelow.
LANCASTER.—Colonel Asa Whitcomb, Doctor William Dunsmore.
MENDON.—Doctor William Jennison, Mr. Edward Rawson.
WOODSTOCK.—(None.)
BROOKFIELD.—Jedediah Foster, Esquire.
OXFORD.—Colonel Ebenezer Learned.
CHARLTON.—Captain Jonathan Tucker.
SUTTON.—Captain Henry King, Mr. Amos Singletary.
LEICESTER and SPENCER.—Colonel Joseph Henshaw.
PAXTON.—(None.)
RUTLAND.—Mr. Jonas Howe.
HUTCHINSON.—Mr. John Mason.
OAKHAM.—Captain Isaac Stone.
HUBBARDSTON.—Captain John Clark.
NEW BRAINTREE.—Captain James Wood.
SOUTHBOROUGH.—Captain Josiah Fay.
WESTBOROUGH.—Captain Stephen Maynard, Doctor James Hawse.
NORTHBOROUGH.—Mr. Levi Bridgham.
SHREWSBURY.—Honourable Artemas Ward.
LUNENBURGH.—Doctor John Taylor.
FITCHBURGH.—Captain David Goodridge.
UXBRIDGE.—Mr. Benjamin Green.
HARVARD.—Mr. Oliver Whitney.
DUDLEY.—(None.)
BOLTON.—Captain Samuel Baker.
UPTON.—Mr. Abiel Sadler.
STURBRIDGE.—Captain Timothy Parker.
LEOMINSTER.—Mr. Israel Nichols.
HARDWICK.—Colonel Paul Mandel.
HOLDEN,—Mr. John Child.
DOUGLASS.—Mr. Samuel Jennison.
GRAFTON.—Mr. John Shearman.
PETERSHAM.—Colonel Jonathan Grout.
ROYALSTON.—Mr. Nahum Green.
WESTMINSTER.—Mr. Nathan Wood.
ATHOL.—Mr. William Bigelow.
TEMPLETON.—Mr. Jonathan Baldwin.
PRINCETON.—Mr. Moses Gill.
ASHBURNHAM and WINCHENDON.—(None.)
WESTERN.—Simeon Dwight, Esquire.
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND.
FALMOUTH and CAPE ELIZABETH.—Mr. Samuel Freeman.
NORTH YARMOUTH.—(None.)
SCARBOROUGH.—Mr. Samuel March.
BRUNSWICK and HARPSWELL.—Col. Samuel Thompson.
GORHAM.—Captain Bryant Morton.
WINDHAM.—(None.)
PERSONTOWN.—(None.)
COUNTY OF LINCOLN.
POWNALBOROUGH.—(None.)
GEORGETOWN.—Captain Samuel M'Cobb.
NEWCASTLE.—(None.)
TOPSHAM.—Mr. John Merrill.
BOWDOINHAM.—Captain Samuel Harnden.
WOOLWICH.—(None.)
GARDNERSTON.—Mr. Joseph North.
VASSALBOROUGH.—Mr. Remington Hobby.
HALLOWELL.—(None.)
WINSLOW.—(None.)
WINTHROP.—Mr. Ichabod Howe.
COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.
SHEFFIELD and GREAT BARRINGTON.—Colonel John Fellows.
EGREMONT and ALFORD.—Doctor William Whiting.
STOCKBRIDGE.—Mr. Samuel Brown.
NEW MARLBOROUGH.—Doctor Ephraim Guiteau.
RICHMOND.—Captain Elijah Brown.
LENOX.—John Patterson, Esquire.
PITTSFIELD and PARTRIDGEFIELD.—John Brown, Esq.
TYRINGHAM.—(None.)
LANESBOROUGH.—(None.)
SANDISFIELD.—Mr. David Deming.
WILLIAMSTOWN.—Mr. Samuel Kellogg.
BECKET.—(None.)
GAGEBOROUGH.—Captain William Clark.
Moved, That a President be appointed.
Ordered, That Doctor Holten, Mr. Cushing, and Doctor Baylies, be a Committee to count and sort the votes for a President.
The Congress then proceeded to bring in their votes for a President, and the Committee having counted the same, reported that the Honourable John Hancock, Esquire, was unanimously chosen.
Benjamin Lincoln, Esquire, was appointed Secretary.
Ordered, That the Honourable John Hancock, Esquire, Major Hawley, Honourable Mr. Cushing, Mr. Adams, Colonel Warren, Mr. Paine, Doctor Holten, Col. Heath, Colonel Gerrish, Mr. Cushing, of Scituate, Honourable Colonel Ward, and Colonel Gardner, be a Committee to take into consideration the state and circumstances of the Province.
Adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow morning.
Thursday, February 2, 1775.
Ordered, That Colonel Lee, Colonel Orne, Colonel Palmer, Mr. Gerry, Colonel Foster, and Colopel Bowers, be joined to the Committee on the State of the Province.
Ordered, That Colonel Gardner, Colonel Palmer, and Mr. Watson, be a Committee to wait on the Reverend Doctor Appleton, and desire his attendance on this Congress, and officiate as Chaplain during the session thereof.
The Committee appointed to wait on the Reverend Doctor Appleton, and desire that he would officiate as Chaplain to this Congress, reported, that they had attended that service, and that the Doctor would officiate as Chaplain, agreeably to the desire of this Congress.
Ordered, That Mr. Aiken, Colonel Gerrish, Major Fuller, and Doctor Holten, be Monitors to this Congress.
Ordered, That in returning the Congress, the Monitors observe the following divisions, viz: That the pews on the right of the desk be one division; on the left another; the men's body seats and the pews adjoining the third; the women's body seats and the pews adjoining the other.
Adjourned to three o'clock in the afternoon.
Congress met, and adjourned till to-morrow morning, at ten o'clock.
Friday, February 3, 1775, A. M.
Ordered, That Mr. Pickering, Captain Greenleaf, and Mr. Lothrop, be a Committee to inspect the Journals of the last Congress, and abstract therefrom what relates to the publick Taxes and the Militia, and cause the same to be printed in a pamphlet, and a copy thereof to be sent to each Town and District in the Province.
A Resolve from the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Boston, and other Committees from a large number of Towns in the vicinity thereof, setting forth that several inhabitants of the Town of Boston, and several other Towns in this Province, are constantly employed in divers kinds of work for the Army now in Boston, and in supplying them with Lumber, &c., and every other article of field equipage, to qualify them to take the field in the
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