their local officers and jurymen. Their votes were now sent in; and, while the commissioners were counting them, Josselyn and his friends disputed the authority of the court, harangued the people outside, and endeavored to make a disturbance. Partly by committing some of the most forward to the custody of his marshal, and partly by friendly reasoning, Leverett succeeded in restoring order; and the business of the court went on. Constables and jurors were sworn; military officers were put in commission for six companies; and, on the third day of their visit, the commissioners set off for their return to Massachusetts, to report that once more she was mistress of Maine. She might seem to herself to stand erect again; as sovereign as in the time of Cromwell, and with the advantage of more people, more wealth, institutions better knit together, a confirmed public spirit, and a generation of citizens born upon her soil.

July 9.

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 ]

Samuel Symonds, 1644-1648, 1650-1667. William Hathorne, 1662 - 1667.

[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.
William Whiting, 1644

1647.

Thomas Wells, 1644 - 1653.

John Mason, 1644-1659.

Thomas Baker, 1658-1663.
John Mulford, 1658.
Alexander Knowles, 1658.

Daniel Clark, 1659, 1660, 1662-1667.
Robert Bond, 1659 1661.
Thurston Rayner, 1661, 1663.

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.

1661, 1663, 1664.

Edward Hopkins, 1655, 1656.

William Leete, 1665 - 1667.

William Jones, 1665 – 1667.

Benjamin Fenn, 1665, 1666.
Jasper Crane, 1665-1667.

Thomas Tapping, 1651-1656, 1659- Richard Law, 1666, 1667.

Samuel Willis, 1654-1667.

John Tallcott, 1654-1667.

John Ogden, 1656 - 1660.

Nathan Gold, 1657, 1659-1667.
Matthew Allyn, 1658-1667.
George Phelps, 1658 - 1662.
John Wells, 1658, 1659.

Robert Treat, 1666.

Benjamin Newbury, 1666, 1667.

Anthony Howkins, 1666, 1667.
Alexander Bryant, 1667.
James Bishop, 1667.
John Davenport, 1667.
Thomas Fairchild, 1667.
Giles Hamlin, 1667.