Committee to Prepare a General Arrangement of Militia

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In Council: Ordered, That William Sever, Caleb Cushing, John Whetcomb, and James Prescott, Esquires, be a Committee to prepare a general arrangement of the Militia through the Colony.

In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That Joseph Cushing, Esquire, be appointed a Brigadier-General for the County of Plymouth.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the honourable Council be desired to give commissions to such Officers as joined the Army in December last, who were chosen by the companies, and formed under the direction of the Committees of this Court, who were directed to raise those temporary recruits, although such companies did not amount to sixty-four men.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: The House made choice, by ballot, of the following gentlemen as Field-Officers for the First Regiment, in the County of Worcester, viz:

Samuel Denny, Colonel; Benjamin Flagg, Lieutenant-Colonel; Paul Raymond, First Major; Asa Baldwin, Second Major.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: The House choice of the following gentlemen as Field-Officers for the Second Regiment of Militia, in the County of Worcester, viz:

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Josiah Whitney, Colonel; Ephraim Sawyer, Lieutenant Colonel.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Ordered, That the Secretary immediately give notice to the gentlemen elected Field and Staff Officers of the several Regiments to be raised in this Colony, to join the Army before Boston, till the first of April next, of their appointment to said offices, respectively.

In Council: Read, and concurred, and Ordered, That the Secretary give the aforesaid notice, by making out a list of the said Field-Officers, and publishing the same in Edes' s and Hall' s Newspapers, apprizing them of their appointment, and directing them to repair to their respective posts in the Army, with all possible despatch.

The Committee of both Houses, appointed to take into consideration the Memorial of the Selectmen of Sherburne, in the Island of Nantucket, have attended that service, and beg leave to report as their opinion, that a representation of the present state of that Island and of the conduct of the Inhabitants, be made to the American Congress, and that the Inhabitants be supplied with necessaries for their subsistence in the manner directed by a Resolve of the Congress, until their determination on such representation may be had. All which is humbly submitted.

JOHN WINTHROP, per order.

In Council: Read, and concurred, and thereupon Ordered, That a representation to the purpose mentioned in the foregoing Report, be made to the American Congress, accordingly; and that John Winthrop, Esq˙, with such as the honourable House shall join, be a Committee to make said representation.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred, and Mr˙ Brown of Boston, and Mr˙ Cushing of Scituate, are joined.

Adjourned to ten o' clock, to-morrow morning.