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The Committee, therefore, have examined the said Accounts, and find they were such only as had been examined, allowed, and passed upon by the Committee appointed by the honourable House, and concurred by the said Benjamin and others, the Committee of Council, that they were well vouched, and right cast, and have presented said Accounts with the vouchers, to be lodged in the Secretary's Office; that the said Benjamin Lincoln, John Taylor, and Benjamin White, Esquires, have faithfully discharged the trust reposed in them, and find a balance of sixteen Pounds, nineteen Shillings and three-fourths of a Penny, due to them, which they have advanced for this Colony; that the examination of the said Accounts, by said Committee, was made the 18th instant, and does not include any payments made since that time; and that the order received on the 19th instant, for three thousand Pounds, on the Treasurer, was not included in the above said sum of eight thousand Pounds.
Therefore, Resolved, That the said Benjamin Lincoln, John Taylor, and Benjamin White, Esquires, be, and they are hereby discharged from the sum of eight thousand Pounds, which they received out of the publick Treasury, and the sum of one Pound sixteen Shillings, received for Blankets; also, that there be allowed and paid out of the publick Treasury, to Benjamin Lincoln, John Taylor, and Benjamin White, Esquires, the sum of sixteen Pounds, nineteen Shillings and three-fourths of a Penny, in full, for so much advanced in payment of Accounts for this Colony.
In Council: Read, and accepted.
In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred.
Adjourned till to-morrow, twelve o'clock.*
Sabbath-Day, January 21, 1776.
Present in Council: Honourables William Sever, Walter Spooner, Caleb Cushing, John Winthrop, John Whetcomb, Jedediah Foster, Eldad Taylor, Benjamin Lincoln, Charles Chauncy, Michael Farley, Samuel Holten, Jabez Fisher, Moses Gill, John Taylor, Benjamin White, Esquires.
Mr. Story came up with a message from the honourable House, to inform the Board that nothing was likely to come up from the House at this time, and desiring that when the Board adjourned, they would adjourn to four o'clock, this afternoon.
In the House of Representatives: Whereas, this Court, at the request of his Excellency General Washington, have thought it necessary that a temporary reinforcement of the Army should be made with all possible despatch, and to effect the same, have proportioned among the several towns in this Colony such a number of men as they apprehended each town ought to raise upon the present emergency, and have appointed a Committee out of each County to assist in raising the men, and forming them when raised, into companies, which Committee are as follows:
For the County of Suffolk: Mr. Gould, Colonel Lovell, and Colonel McIntosh.
For the County of Essex: Mr. Phillips, Mr. Jewett, Mr. Hopkins, and Major Cross.
For the County of Middlesex: Colonel Spaulding. Mr. Brooks, Colonel Perry, Captain Sartle, and Mr. Bryant.
For the County of Plymouth: Captain Cushing, Colonel Cushing, and Captain White of Middleborough.
For the County of Barnstalle: Colonel Otis and Colonel Cobb.
For the County of Bristol: Captain Hodges, Mr. Starkwether, and Doctor Baylies.
For the County of Worcester: Captain Parker, Mr. Fessenden, Mr. Allen, Mr. Rice, and Colonel Hill.
For the County of York: Colonel Sawyer, Mr. Sullivan, and Major Gooding.
For the County of Cumberland: Mr. Fabyan and Captain Cutter.
For the County of Lincoln: Captain Howard and Colonel Jones.
Therefore, Resolved, That the persons aforenamed, for each of the several Counties aforesaid, be, and they hereby are directed to use their utmost endeavours with the Committees of Correspondence and Safety, and the Selectmen of each town, to have the several proportions of men affixed to each town in their several Counties, raised with all possible expedition; and when raised, to form them into Companies of ninety men each, including officers, and as soon as each Company have chosen their several officers, that they cause them to march forthwith to the camp at Cambridge or Roxbury, as his Excellency General Washington shall direct.
In Council; Read, and concurred.
In the House of Representatives: Whereas, it is of very great importance to our brethren, the Inhabitants of Canada, and to the Inhabitants of the United Colonies, especially to the western and northern Counties thereof, that the advantages gained under the smiles of Providence by the American Army, during the year last past, over the Ministerial Forces in Canada should be maintained, and the remainder of them there effectually subdued, as well as the rights and liberties of our brethren in that Colony secured: And whereas, his Excellency General Washington, has applied to each of the Colonies of Connecticut, New-Hampshire, and Massachusetts-Bay, severally, to furnish a Regiment, consisting of seven hundred and twenty-eight men, including officers, to be raised with all possible despatch, on the American establishment, and to serve the United Colonies until the 1st day of January next, if required thereto:
It is, therefore, Resolved, That a Regiment, consisting of seven hundred and twenty-eight men, be raised for the purpose aforesaid, in the Counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, and to be under the command of Elisha Porter, Esquire, as Colonel; Thomas Williams, Esquire, as Lieutenant-Colonel, and Abner Morgan, Esquire, as Major; who have been unanimously chosen by the General Court of this Colony to those offices, respectively; and that the commanding officer of each Company of Militia, in the towns of the said Counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, here after-mentioned, chosen agreeable to the direction of the
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