OFFICIAL JOURNAL.

A JOURNAL

OF A

CONVENTION OF DELEGATES,

CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING A CONSTITUTION OR FRAME OF GOVERNMENT, REPORTED BY A CONVENTION OF DELEGATES, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF May, 1787.

BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON, ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF JANUARY, ANNO DOMINI 1788, PURSUANT TO A RESOLVE OF THE GENERAL COURT OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH, PASSED THE 25TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1787.

JOURNAL.

On motion,

WEDNESDAY, January 9, 1788.

Ordered, That Mr. Gorham, Mr. Carnes, Dr. Jarvis, Mr. Dalton, Mr. Spooner and Mr. Davis, be a Committee to receive the returns of the several towns.

By the returns from the several towns, it appeared that the following gentlemen were chosen to represent them in Convention, viz. :

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.

His Excellency John Hancock, Esq.
Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq.

Hon. Samuel Adams, Esq.
Hon. William Phillips, Esq.
Hon. Caleb Davis, Esq.
Charles Jarvis, Esq.
John Coffin Jones, Esq.
John Winthrop, Esq.
Thomas Dawes, Jr., Esq.
Rev. Samuel Stillman.
Thomas Russell, Esq.
Christopher Gore, Esq.
Hon. William Heath, Esq.
Hon. Increase Sumner, Esq.
James Bowdoin, Jr., Esq.
Ebenezer Wales, Esq.

Roxbury,

Dorchester,

Milton,

Rev. Nathaniel Robbins.

Weymouth,

Hon. Cotton Tufts, Esq.

Hingham,.

Hon. Benjamin Lincoln, Esq.

Rev. Daniel Shute.