List enclosed in the foregoing Letter:

MACHIAS.—James Lyon, Chairman; George Stillman, Clerk; Jeremiah Obrien, Benjamin Foster, Samuel Scott, Manwaring Beal, Nathaniel Sinclair.

NUMBER FOUR.—John Stevens, Phineas Whitten.

GOLDSBOROUGH.—Benjamin Glasher, William Shaw.

NARRAGAUGUS.—Joseph Wallis, Alexander Campbell.

ST. GEORGE’S.—(Blank.)

PENOBSCOT.—(Blank.)

BRISTOL.—(Blank.)

BOOTHBAY.—David Reed,. . . . . Emerson.

POWNALBOROUGH.—Timothy Langdon, Chairman; Ebenezer Whittier, Clerk; John Getchell, John Huse,

Timothy Parsons.

GEORGETOWN.—Dummer Sewall, John Wood.

BRUNSWICK.—Aaron Hinckley, Esq., Benjamin Stone.

NORTH YARMOUTH.—Samuel Stanwood.

FALMOUTH, CASCO BAY.—Hon. Jedediah Preble, Esquire, Hon. Enoch Freeman, Esquire, Mr. Richard Codman, Capt. John Waite, Mr. John Butler, Mr. Samuel Freeman, Mr. Benjamin Winslow.

BERWICK, in the County of YORK.—Hon. Benja. Chadbourn, Esq., Mr. John Hill, Mr. Robert Furness.

The Committee on the Account of Mr. Jabez Matihews, reported. The Report was accepted, and is as follows, viz:

Resolved, That the Receiver-General be, and he is here-by directed to pay Mr. Jabez Matthews, or order, the sum of thirty Pounds, nine Shillings, and eleven Pence, lawful money, in Colony notes or bills of credit of this or the other Governments, which are, by a Resolve of this Congress, made payable on the said Treasury, in discharge of an Account exhibited by him to this Congress, for the time and expense of himself and three persons on an embassy to Canada. And the Committee of Supplies are hereby ordered to furnish Mr. Jabez Matthews with four pounds of Powder for himself and associates.

The Committee appointed to consider the Resolve of the Committee of Safety relative to Whale-boats, reported. The Report was recommitted.

Afternoon.

Mr. Kollock was appointed in the room of Major Good-win, on the Committee for making provision for the reception of Generals Washington and Lee.

Ordered, That Colonel Mitchell deliver the two hundred and fifteen Spears, which he has procured for the use of the Army, to General Thomas at Roxbury.

Ordered, That Dr. Taylor, Mr. Fox, and Capt. Bragdon, be a Committee to bring in a Resolve, directing how the sick and wounded shall be removed to the Hospitals.

Thomas Rice, Esq., was appointed to swear the Soldiers in the County of Lincoln, in the room of David Fales, Esquire.

John Lee, Esq., was appointed to swear the Soldiers in the County of Essex, and Rushworth Jordan for the County of York, in addition to those already appointed.

A Petition from the Selectmen of Mendon read, and the Petitioners had leave to withdraw their Petition.

The Committee appointed to consider how the Soldiers shall be supplied with Coats, reported; and Tuesday next, at nine o’clock, A. M., was assigned to consider the Report.

The Committee appointed to take into consideration the Memorial from the Committee of Correspondence of the Town of Sandwich, reported. The Committee were directed to bring in a Resolve to recommend the parties in said Petition mentioned, to leave the matters in dispute to arbitration.

Major Hawley, by leave of Congress, brought in a Re-solve directing the Receiver-General to pay out of the Treasury the Bills of Credit of the other Colonies. The Resolve was accepted, and is as follows:

Resolved, That the Receiver-General of this Colony be, and hereby is directed, as far as shall be in his power, to pay and satisfy any drafts and orders of this Congress, or of any person or persons who are or shall be empowered by this Congress to draw on him for any sum or sums whatsoever, in such Notes or Bills of Credit of any of the American Colonies, which, by a Resolution of this Congress, passed on the 28th day of June last, are made payable into the Treasury of this Colony, where such orders do not expressly direct the payment of either silver or gold.

The Committee appointed to devise means for the better accommodation of the sick and wounded of the Colony Army, reported. The Report was accepted, and is as follows, viz:

In order that all the sick and wounded in the Army may be provided for and taken care of in the best way and manner possible,

Resolved, and it is hereby Ordered, That when any person in the Army is so ill, either by a wound or otherwise, that the Surgeon of the Regiment to which the sick or wounded person belongs finds that the sick or wounded as abovesaid cannot be properly taken care of in the Regiment to which he belongs, said Surgeon shall send the sick or wounded as abovesaid to the hospital provided for the use of the camps to which they belong and a certificate of the man’s name, and the Company and Regiment to which he belongs; and in that case the Surgeon of the said hospital shall receive said sick or wounded under his care; and in case said hospital shall become too full, in that case the Surgeon of said hospital shall send such of his patients as may with safety be removed to the hospital in Water-town, and a certificate setting forth the man’s name, and what Company and Regiment each of them belong to; and in that case the Surgeon of the Watertown hospital shall receive said sick or wounded under his care.

Ordered, That a copy of the last-mentioned Resolve be sent to Generals Ward and. Thomas.

The Report of the Committee upon the Account of Mr. Paul Revere, was considered, and not accepted.

Ordered, That Major Hawley, Mr. Dexter, and Mr. Pickering, be a Committee to draw up a Resolve to be prefixed to the Addresses to Generals washington and Lee. [Resolve not recorded.]

“To his Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq., General and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army:

“MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY: The Congress of the Massachusetts Colony, impressed with every sentiment of gratitude and respect, beg leave to congratulate you on your safe arrival, and to wish you all imaginable happiness and success in the execution of your elevated station.

“While we applaud that attention to the publick good manifested in your appointment, we equally admire that disinterested virtue and distinguished patriotism which alone could call you from those enjoyments of domestick life, which a sublime and manly taste, joined with a most affluent fortune, can afford, to hazard your life, and endure the fatigues of war in the defence of the rights of mankind and the good of your Country.

“The laudable zeal for the common cause of America, and compassion for the distresses of this Colony, exhibited by the great despatch made in your journey hither, fully justify the universal satisfaction, we have with pleasure observed on this occasion, and are promising presages that the great expectations formed from your personal character and military abilities, are well founded.

“We wish you may have found such regularity and discipline already established in the Army, as may be agreeable to your expectations. The hurry with which it was necessarily collected, and the many disadvantages arisng from a suspension of Government, under which we have raised and endeavoured to regulate The Forces of this Colony, have rendered it a work of time; and though in a great measure effected, the completion of so difficult, and at the same time so necessary a task, is reserved to your Excellency; and we doubt not will be properly considered and attended to.

“We would not presume to prescribe to your Excellency, but supposing you would choose to be informed of the general character of the soldiers who compose the Army, beg leave to represent, that the greatest part of them have not before seen service; and although naturally brave and of good understanding, yet, for want of experience in military life, have but little knowledge of divers things most essential to the preservation of health, and even life. The