which they determine most sacredly to adhere to until our many grievances be redressed; therefore,

Voted, That it be recommended, and we do earnestly recommend it to the Committees of Correspondence or Selectmen in the several sea-port towns in this Province to appoint, or cause to be appointed, Committees to inspect the imports that have been or shall be made since the last day of August aforesaid, and publish all such in the Boston newspapers, with the names of the importers, that so we may carefully avoid all such in our dealings for the future.

Voted, To choose a Standing Committee for the county, to correspond with the Committees of Correspondence for the several counties, and elsewhere, as they shall think proper; also, to prepare matters proper to lay before this body at their several meetings; to give the earliest intelligence to the several Committees in this county of any new attack upon the liberties of this people, and call a County Convention at any time, as occasion may require.—Therefore,

Voted, That the Committees of Correspondence for the towns of Worcester and Leicester, be a Committee for the purposes aforesaid; and that Messrs. Thomas Denny, Joseph Henshaw, and Joshua Bigelow, be added to the above Committee.

Voted, To take notice of Mr. Sheriff Chandler, for carrying an Address to Governour Gage.

Voted, That a Committee wait on the Sheriff, and require his attendance before this body, for presenting, (with others, the Justices of the County of Worcester,) the Address to Governour Gage.

Voted, That the following Declaration, signed by the Sheriff, should be accepted:

"Whereas the Convention of Committees have expressed their uneasiness to the Sheriff of this county, now present before the Convention, for presenting, with others, an Ad dress to Governour Gage, which he frankly declares was precipitately done by him; though he is sorry for it, and disclaims any intention to do any thing against the minds of the inhabitants of this county; and had he known it would have given offence, he would not have presented said Address,

G. CHANDLER."

As the several Regiments in this county are large and inconvenient, by the increase of its inhabitants since the first settlement of said regiments—Therefore,

Voted, That they be divided into seven distinct Regiments, in the following manner, viz:

1st. Worcester, Leicester, Holden, Spencer, and Paxton.

2d. Sutton, Oxford, Sturbridge, Charlton, and Dudley.

3d. Lancaster, Bolton, Harvard, Lunenburgh, Leominster, Fitchburgh, Ashburnham, and Westminster.

4th. Brookfield, Western, Braintree, Hardwick, and Oakham.

5th. Rutland, Hutchinson, Petersham, Athol, Templeton, Winchendon, Royalston, Hubbardstown, and Princeton.

6th. Southboro', Westboro', Northboro', Shrewsbury, and Grafton.

7th. Mendon, Uxbridge, Northbridge, Upton, and Douglass.

Voted, That it be recommended to the several towns in this county to choose proper, and a sufficient number of military officers for each of their towns; and that the Captains, Lieutenants, and Ensigns in each regiment, who are chosen by the people, do convene on or before the tenth day of October next, at some convenient place in each regiment, and choose their field officers, to command the militia, until they be constitutionally appointed; and that it be recommended to the officers in each town in this county, to enlist one-third of the men in their respective towns, between sixteen and sixty years of age, to be at a minute's warning; and that it be recommended to each town in this county to choose a sufficient number of men as a Committee to supply and support those troops that shall move upon any emergency.

Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the first Tuesday in December next.

WLLIAM HENSHAW, Clerk.

Boston, September 26, 1774.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders of this town, on Wednesday, the 21st instant, at Faneuil Hall, the following gentlemen were chosen to represent them in the General Assembly, to be held on the 5th of next month, viz: the Honourable Thomas Gushing, Esquire, Mr. Samuel Adams, the Honourable John Hancock, Esquire, and William Phillips, Esquire; and on Friday, the town made choice of Dr. Joseph Warren, Dr. Benjamin Church, and Mr. Nathaniel Appleton, to serve as Delegates in the Provincial Congress, to be held at Concord, on the second Tuesday in October next, in addition to the four Representatives of this town; and the following Instructions for our Representatives were voted, viz:

GENTLEMEN: As we have chosen you to represent us in the Great and General Court, to be holden at Salem, on Wednesday, the 5th of October next ensuing, we do hereby instruct you, that in all your doings, as members of the House of Representatives, you adhere firmly to the Charter of this Province, granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, and that you do no act which can possibly be construed into an acknowledgment of the validity of the Act of the British Parliament for altering the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; more especially that you acknowledge the Honourable Board of Counsellors elected by the General Court, at their session in last May, as the only rightful and constitutional Council of this Province. And we have reason to believe, that a conscientious discharge of your duty will produce your dissolution as an House of Representatives; we do hereby empower and instruct you to join with the members, who may be sent from this and the other towns in the Province, and to meet with them at a time to be agreed on in a General Provincial Congress, to act upon such matters as may come before you, in such a manner as shall appear to you most conducive to the true interest of this town and Province, and most likely to preserve the liberties of all America.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY (MASSACHUSETTS) RESOLVES.

At a Meeting of the following gentlemen chosen be the several towns in the County of Cumberland, held at Falmouth, in said county, on the 21st day of September, 1774, at the house of Mrs. Greele, viz: from

FALMOUTH, The Honourable Enoch Freeman, Esquire, Stephen Longfellow, Esquire, Mr. Richard Codman, Captain John Waite, Mr. Enoch Ilsley, Mr. Samuel Freeman.

SCARBOROUGH, Captain Timothy McDaniel, Captain Reuben Fogg, Mr. Joshua Fabyan.

NORTH YARMOUTH, Mr. John Lewis, David Mitchell, Esquire, Messrs. Jonathan Mitchell, John Gray, William Cutter.

GORHAM, Solomon Lombard, Esquire, William Gorham, Esquire, Captain Edmund Phiney, Captain Briant Morton, Mr. Joseph Davis

CAPE ELIZABETH, Dr. Clement Jordon, Messrs. Peter Woodbury, Samuel Dunn, Captain Judah Dyer, Dr. Nathaniel Jones, Mr. George Strout.

BRUNSWICK, Messrs. Samuel Thompson, Samuel Stanicood, Captain Thomas Moulton

HARPSWELL, Mr. Joseph Ewing, Captain John Stover, Mr. Andrew Dunning.

WINDHAM, Messrs. Zerubabel Honywell, Thomas Trott, David Barker.

NEW-GLOUCESTER, Messrs. William Harris, Isaac Parsons.

The Hon. Enoch Freeman, Esq., was chosen Chairman, Mr. Samuel Freeman, Clerk.

A Committee from the body of people, who were assembled at the entrance of the town, waited on this Convention to see if they would choose a Committee of one member out of each town to join them, to wait upon Mr. Sheriff Tyng to see whether he would act in his office, under the late act of Parliament for regulating the Government.

On a motion made, Voted, that a messenger be sent to the said Sheriff Tyng, to desire his attendance at this Convention. A messenger then waited upon Mr. Tyng, with the following Billet, viz: