APPENDIX. COMMISSIONERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. [The letter P., after a name, denotes the presiding officer of the body for the year. It was the custom, though not observed without exceptions, to choose for President one of the Commissioners of the Colony in which the meeting was held ] [Called Assistants after the Charter.] George Fenwick, 1644, 1645, 1647, 1648. Richard Treat, 1658 – 1664. George Wyllys, 1644. Roger Ludlow, 1644 1647, 1649-1653. John Webster, 1644-1654, 1657 – 1659. Thomas Wells, 1644 – 1653. John Mason, 1644 – 1659. Thomas Baker, 1658-1663. John Mulford, 1658. Alexander Knowles, 1658. Daniel Clark, 1659, 1660, 1662 – 1667, Henry Wolcott, 1644 - 1655, 1662-1667. John Allyn, 1662 – 1667. Samuel Swayne, 1644. Samuel Sherman, 1663 - 1667. John Cosmore, 1647-1650, 1655, 1657, John Howell, 1663, 1664. MAGISTRATES. [From a deficiency in the records of New Haven, no list of Magistrates for the years 1644-1652 can be made out. In 1646, Thomas Gregson, Richard Malbon, William Fowler, John Astwood, Samuel Desbrough, and Andrew Ward were elected. (N. H. Rec., I. 275.) Thurston Rayner was a Magistrate in 1644 (Ibid., 135); Richard Malbon, in 1645 (Ibid., 257); and John Astwood and Samuel Desbrough, in 1649 (Ibid., 467). Beginning with 1653, the series was as follows: -] [Robert Treat was re-elected in 1664, but did not take the oath of office; nor did John Wakeman nor John Nash, elected respectively in 1661 and 1664; nor William Gibbard, on his first election, in 1661.] Randall Holden, 1647, 1653 1655, 1657, Edward Smith, 1654. |