ed should meet sooner than the day before mentioned, it is recommended to the several towns and districts, that they instruct and authorize their said delegates, to assemble at Cambridge aforesaid, or any other place, upon notice given them of the necessity thereof, by the delegates that may be chosen by the towns of Charlestown, Cambridge, Brookline, Roxbury and Dorchester, or the majority of them, in such way as they shall judge proper..

And it is further recommended to the delegates to be elected, that they conform themselves to such instructions.

Ordered, That the further consideration of the report of the committee appointed to take into consideration what allowance should be made the delegates who attend the Continental Congress from this province, be referred to the sitting of the next Provincial Congress.

The committee appointed to take into consideration a plan of military exercise, proposed by Capt. Pickering, and also the petition of the officers of the northwest part of the county of Worcester, reported; the report was read and accepted.

Ordered, That the expense of transmitting the address to the Canadians be paid by this government.

The business necessary to be immediately transacted, being finished, and the Congress having returned their thanks to the Hon. John Hancock, Esq., for his constant attendance and faithful services as president during their session, dissolved.||^||

a the same to convene again the first day of February next, conformably to the preceding resolve.{}

JOURNAL

OF THE

SECOND PROVINCIAL CONGRESS

OF

Massachusetts,

Convened at Cambridge, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1775.-Adjourned Thursday, Feb. 16.
Convened at Concord, Tuesday, March 22.-Adjourned Saturday, April 15.
Convened at Concord, Saturday, April 22.-Adjourned to Watertown.
Convened at Watertown, Saturday, April 22.—Dissolved May 29, 1775.

JOURNAL.

RECORD of the proceedings of a Provincial Congress of deputies of the several towns and districts in the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, convened at Cambridge, on Wednesday, the first day of February, A. D. 1775; with a list of the persons chosen to represent them in the same.

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.

Boston.-Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq., Mr. Samuel Adams, Hon. John Hancock, Esq., Doct. Joseph Warren, Doct. Benjamin Church, Mr. Oliver Wendall, Mr. John Pitts.

Roxbury.-Col. William Heath, Capt. Aaron Davis.
Dorchester-Capt. Ebenezer Withington.

Milton.-Capt. David Rawson.

Braintree.-Col. Joseph Palmer.

Weymouth. Mr. Nathaniel Bailey.

Hingham and Cohasset.-Benjamin Lincoln, Esq.

Dedham.-Hon. Samuel Dexter, Esq., Mr. Abner Ellis.

Medfield.-Mr. Moses Bullen.

Wrentham.—Mr. Jabez Fisher, [Mr. Lemuel Kollock, Mr. Samuel

Lethbridge.]

Brookline.-Capt. Benjamin White.

Needham.-Capt. Eleazer Kingsbury.

Stoughton.-Mr. Thomas Crane.

Stoughtonham.-Mr. Job Swift.

Medway-Capt. Jonathan Adams.

Bellingham.-[Mr. Stephen Metcalf.]

Hull.-[None.]

Walpole.-Mr. Enoch Ellis.

Chelsea.-Mr. Samuel Watts.

COUNTY OF ESSEX.

Salem.-Mr. John Pickering, Mr. Richard Manning, [Mr. Jonathan

Ropes, Jun.]

Danvers.-Doct, Samuel Holten.

Ipswich.-Col. Michael Farley.

Newburyport.-Capt. Jonathan Greenleaf, Mr. Stephen Cross, Tris

tram Dalton, Esq.

Newbury.-Joseph Gerrish, Esq.

Marblehead.-Jeremiah Lee, Esq., Col. Azor Orne, Mr. Elbridge

Gerry.

Lynn.-Col. John Mansfield.

Andover.-Mr. Samuel Osgood, Jun.

Beverly-Capt. Josiah Batchelder.

Rowley. Mr. Nathaniel Mighill.

Salisbury.-Mr. Samuel Smith.

Gloucester.-Capt. Peter Coffin, Mr. Samuel Whittemore.

Topsfield.-Capt. Samuel Smith.

Boxford.-Major Asa Perley.

Amesbury.-Isaac Merrill, Esq.

Bradford.-Col. Daniel Thurston.

Haverhill.-Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent, Esq., Mr. Jonathan Web

ster, Jun.

Wenham.-Mr. Benjamin Fairfield.

Middleton.-Capt. Archelaus Fuller.

Manchester.-[None.]

Methuen. Mr. John Bodwell.

COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.

Cambridge. Col. Thomas Gardner, Mr. Abraham Watson, Jun. Charlestown. Mr. Nathaniel Gorham, Mr. Richard Devens, David Cheever, Esq.

Watertown.-Capt. Jonathan Browne.

Woburn. Mr. Samuel Wyman.

Concord.-Col. James Barrett.

Newton.-Abraham Fuller, Esq, Mr. Edward Durant.

Reading. Mr. John Temple.

Malborough.-Mr. Peter Bent.

Billerica.-William Stickney, Esq.

Framingham.-Capt. Josiah Stone.

Lexington. Mr. Jonas Stone.

Chelmsford.-Mr. Simeon Spaulding.

Sherburne.-Mr. Benjamin Fasset, Mr. Richard Sanger.

Sudbury.-Mr. Thomas Plympton.

Malden.-Capt. Ebenezer Harnden, Capt. John Dexter.

Weston.-Col. Braddyl Smith.