Accompanying Papers

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At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of Eastham, legally warned and assembled, at the North Meeting-House, the 20th of February, A˙ D˙ 1775: Deacon Edward Knowles, Moderator.

The Assembly voted to dismiss the Committee of Correspondence chosen at a meeting held at the South Meeting-House, 22d February, 1774, for this Town, and also voted to choose another, viz: Mr˙ Theophilus Hopkins, Capt˙ Edward Knowles, Capt˙Amos Knowles, Jun˙, Major Solomon Pepper, and Mr˙ John Yates.

Voted, also, the Town' s disapprobation and dismission of Messrs˙ Thomas Paine, Job Crocker, and Isaiah Higgins, from any business as a Committee of Inspection; (who were chosen by the County Congress at their last meeting at Barnstable, for a Committee of Inspection for this Town, to see that the Resolves of the Congresses and Association are observed and put in execution.)

Also, voted to choose a Committee of three men, viz: Messrs˙ Amos Knowles, Junior, Benjamin Higgins, and John Doane, as a Committee of Inspection, (to join with a former Committee chosen at a meeting held at the South Meeting-House, 3d of January, 1775,) to see that the Resolves of the Congresses and Association are observed and put in execution.

The Town also voted their charge to the abovesaid Committee, that they strictly adhere to their office, and see that all the Resolves of the Congresses are observed and put in execution in this Town which are agreeable to the Continental Congress.

And, also, voted to make null and void the vote which passed in this Town, at a meeting held at the South Meeting-House, 3d of January, 1775, for the Constables, viz:

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Attest: GIDEON BATY, Town Clerk.

The within has been compared by the Committee of Correspondence, and found to be a true copy of an attested copy of said meeting.

ISSAC SPARROW,
JOSEPH COLE,
JOHN DAVIS,
THOMAS TWINING,
Committee of Correspondence.