George M. Baker, Feb. 2, 1820 Marshfield, Teacher, 1853 Middleboro', Richard Sampson, Nov. 15, 1811 Middleborough, Farmer, 1854 Joseph T. Wood, Mar. 17, 1818 66 Farmer, 1852 N.Bridg'water Plymouth, Plympton, John P. Ellis, Aug. 7, 1802 Plympton, Farmer, 1854 Rochester, William Sears, Aug. 31, 1789 Rochester, Scituate, William Cook, May 1, 1800 Scituate, S. Scituate, Sam'l C. Cudworth, Dec. 2, 1822 Boston, Wareham, 1853 1854 James R. Sproat, Apr. 18, 1806 Middleborough, Merchant, W. Bridgew'r, Albert Copeland, Jan. 28, 1793 W. Bridgewater, Farmer, Benjamin Paine, Jan. 12, 1795 Brewster, Richard Gould, Apr. 25, 1788 Chatham, M. S. Underwood, June 29, 1812 Harwich, Jonathan Snow, Aug. 13, 1799 Eastham, Thomas Lewis, Jr., Mar. 16, 1806 Falmouth, Anthony R. Chase, Mar. 8, 1822 Harwich, John Kenrick, Aug. 9, 1819 Orleans, Provincetown, Elisha Tillson, Oct. 27, 1803 Wrentham, Feb. 10, 1810 Dennis, Oct. 3, 1796 Truro, Aug. 9, 1807 Wellfleet, Sept. 28, 1794 Yarmouth, 66 66 William Stowe, Feb. 25, 1818 Westfield, W. E. P. Haskell, June 24, 1817 Gloucester, Aug. 6, 1806 Charlestown, Clerk, 1854 Ass't Clerk, 1853 Chaplain, 1854 Serg't at Arms 1835 Door Keeper, 1838 David Murphy, Feb. 10, 1799 Charlest'n, N. H. Messenger, 1831 Brown'ton, Vt. E. S. Brigham, Boston, July 11, 1808 Brownington, Vt. Augustus Lothrop, Feb. 13, 1823 Boston, Ass't Mess'g gr, 1854 Ass't Mess'gr, 1854 Ass't Mess'gr, 1843 Ass't Mess'gr, 1854 Postmaster, Page, Hingham, Boston, Dorchester, 1852 Boston, 1850 66 Page, 1852 66 Watchman, 1840 Wm. H. Wilson, Dec. 11, 1809 Portland, Me. 66 66 RECAPITULATION OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-1854. Whole number of the Senate and House of Representatives, 350. One member of the House has not taken his seat. FIRST INAUGURAL MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR JOHN HANCOCK. As a matter of interest to the present generation, we have copied from the first volume of the Journals of the House of Representatives, after the adoption of the Constitution of 1780, the first Inaugural Message of Governor John Hancock. It is a document replete with sound patriotism, wise maxims, and good counsel, and our friends will find themselves well repaid for the time spent in its perusal. His Excellency the Governor was pleased to make the following speech : Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : With a sincere and warm heart I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of Heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution framed by the wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme Ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate the new foundations of liberty and glory. Finding myself placed at the head of this Commonwealth by the free suffrages of its citizens, while I most sensibly feel the distinction they have conferred upon me in the election, I am at a loss to express the sentiments of gratitude with which it has impressed me. In addition to my natural affection for them, and the obligations they have before laid upon me, I have now a new and irresistible motive ever to consider their happiness as my greatest interest, and their freedom my highest honor. Deeply impressed with a sense of the important duties to which my country now calls me, while I obey the call, I most ardently wish myself adequate to those duties, but can only promise, in concurrence with you, gentlemen, a faithful and unremitting attention to them, supported as I am by the advice and assistance of the Council, happily provided by the Constitution, to whose judgment I shall always pay the greatest respect, and on whose wisdom and integrity I shall ever rely. May unanimity among the several branches of this new government consolidate its force, and establish such measures as shall most effectually advance the interest and reputation of the Commonwealth. This can never be done but by a strict adherence, in every point, to the principles of our excellent Constitution, which, on my own part, I engage most sacredly to preserve. Gentlemen,-Of all the weighty business that lies before you, a point of the first importance, and most pressing necessity is the establishment of the army in such consistency and force, and with such seasonable and competent supplies, as may render it, in conjunction with the respectable forces sent to our assistance by our powerful and generous ally, an effectual defence to the free Constitutions and Independence of the United States. You cannot give too early or too serious an attention to that proportion of this business that falls to the share of this Commonwealth. The mode, we have too long practised, of reinforcing the army by enlistments for a short time has been found to be at once greatly ineffectual and extremely burdensome. The commander-in-chief, in whose abilities and integrity we justly repose the highest confidence, has repeatedly stated to us the great disadvantages from it; and the necessity of an army engaged for the whole war, and well provided, is now universally felt and acknowledged. Nor should a moment of time be lost in prosecuting every measure for establishing an object so essential to the preservation of our liberties and all that is dear to |