following manner, in case blank commissions are not sent to me. I believe the disposition will be generally agreeable, and for the service of the Regiment. Ensign Abraham Wright, of Major’s Company, to be Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Company, (Humphrey’s,) vice Lieutenant Hillyer; Sergeant Jonathan Humphrey, Jun., of the Fourth, to be Ensign, vice Ensign Wright; Ensign Nathaniel Bingham, of Lieutenant-Colonel Douglass’s Company, to be Second Lieutenant of Ripley’s, (which is the Tenth,) vice Lieutenant Chamberlain, to be promoted to the First Lieutenancy, vice Lieutenant Tirrell; Sergeant John Kinsman, of Colonel Douglass’s, to be Ensign, vice Ensign Bingham; Sergeant Solomon Makepeace, of the Fifth Company, (that is, Ellsworth’s,) to be Ensign, vice Ensign Markham.

We have many fears concerning the Commissary General of our Army, who we just hear is dangerously sick at your house. The universal satisfaction he has given in his station, and in private life, fills every one with much anxiety for his recovery.

The night before last, one of our floating batteries was much damaged by the bursting of a cannon—two men killed, and several wounded. We had three fine floating batteries, two in Cambridge and one in Mistick River—two of them remain good yet—and about twenty flat-bottomed boats, that will carry near one hundred men each, besides a number of whale boats. What is to done with them I know not.

Our enemies continue their defensive operations; they have taken down the buildings not far from the Haymarket, south end of Boston, and made an opening from water to water, and are busily raising batteries.

All the articles of news from the other side of the water are full of threats. All appearances of a reconciliation between this Country and Great Britain, commonly though erroneously called the Mother Country, are vanished out of sight. The breach is daily widening. I begin to think the golden age of New-England is passed; that she will enjoy no more of her good days, such as she has seen, till the time comes when there will be none to hurt or destroy in all the holy mountain.

With most dutiful respects, I remain your affectionate son,

JEDEDIAH HUNTINGTON.

Honourable Governour Trumbull.

ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF WORCESTER.

Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Worcester, in Council assembled, presented to His Majesty by John Walsh and Thomas Bates Rous, Esquires, their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of WORCESTER, in Council assembled.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of your ancient and loyal City of Worcester, humbly beg leave to approach your throne, with hearts full of zeal to your Majesty’s person and Government, truly sensible of the great benefits we enjoy under your Majesty’s mild and auspicious reign.

At the same time, we think it our duty to express our abhorrence of those seditious principles which, under the mask of patriotism, have been industriously propagated by artful and evil designing men, through all ranks of your Majesty’s subjects in these Kingdoms, and have excited a most atrocious and unnatural rebellion in many of your American Colonies, which we implore your Majesty to suppress by an exertion of the powers with which you are invested; entirely relying on your Majesty’s wisdom and paternal care for such terms of concession, from the deluded Colonists, as shall be consistent with the honour of the crown, the support of commerce, and the welfare of the British Empire.

And here we beg leave to inform your Majesty, that, notwithstanding the cessation of our trade to America, we find the principal manufacture of this City still continues in a flourishing state; but whatever interruptions our trade may for a time receive we shall cheerfully submit to, firmly persuaded that publick happiness can never be secured till the legislative authority is acknowledged by all your Majesty’s subjects, in its fullest extent.

We solemnly assure your Majesty, that we are ready to sacrifice all that is dear to us in support of your Majesty’s person and Government, and that we will at all times oppose with vigour every attempt to violate that Constitution which is the envy of other nations and the glory of our own.

Given under our common seal, this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

ADDRESS OF THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD.

Address of the County of Stafford, presented to His Majesty by Sir William Bagot and Sir John Wrottesley, Baronets, their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty:

We, your Majesty’s loyal and faithful subjects of the populous and commercial County of Stafford, humbly beg leave to express our just sense of your Majesty’s paternal care for the welfare and prosperity of all your people, and to testify our great concern that your Majesty’s auspicious reign should be disturbed by an ungrateful and unnatural rebellion in America, encouraged and abetted here by those who, under the specious veil of liberty, are sacrificing the blessings of order, of true freedom, and publick harmony, to factious views and gratifications, and who endeavour to unsettle the foundations that give unity and firmness to the whole, by restraining the legislative power of the British Parliament, and contesting its original and inherent authority, which must extend to every part of the British Empire.

Far from being actuated by vindictive principles, we sincerely wish to see peace and harmony restored to our fellow-subjects in America. But when we observe a presumptuous faction daring to address the electors of Great Britain at large, to countenance rebellion, and withhold every means that can enable your Majesty to quell it—at such a juncture, duty, gratitude, and regard for the whole community, call upon us to concur with the rest of your Majesty’s loyal subjects, in offering our faithful services for the support of our excellent Constitution, and of your Majesty’s mild and impartial Government, well assured that whatever we can offer and contribute will be directed by your Majesty’s wisdom to the common good, of maintaining the dignity of the crown and of the estates of this realm, and of promoting the real interests of the subject, by the most salutary and effectual measures.

October 20, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER.

Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Common Council of the City of Gloucester, in Council assembled, presented to His Majesty by George Selwyn, Esq., one of their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty:

We, your Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Common Council of the City of Gloucester, in Council assembled, impressed with a grateful sense of the many and great blessings we enjoy under your Majesty’s mild and auspicious Government, beg leave to approach the throne, to testify our astonishment at and abhorrence of the unnatural rebellion which prevails amongst the deluded Colonies in America, and to assure your Majesty of our utmost assistance and support in maintaining the legislative authority of Great Britain over all your Dominions.

The paternal care and affection which your Majesty extends to all your subjects, and your unwearied endeavours for the support of their religious and civil liberties, give usthe pleasing assurances that no efforts will be wanting to bring back the rebellious Americans to a just sense of their duty and allegiance, and to restore the blessings of peace, and establish it upon a firm and permanent foundation.

That your Majesty may triumph over all the enemies of our happy Constitution, and long continue to reign over a free and united people, is our sincere and ardent prayer.

Given under our common seal, the twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.