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same "Words, without any Equivocation, .McMital Evasion, 

 or Secret Reservation Avliatsoever. And I do make this 

 Kecoirnition, Acknowledunieiit, Abjuration, Ixenunciation 

 and Promise, Heartily, Willingly and Truely, upon the 

 true Faith of a Cb.ristian. 



So Help me GOD. 



Jos. WOLCOT. 



Capt. the 2(): of March, 17l^2. 



Cor. Bex.t. Lynde, ) c \ • ^t - * ^ n i 



T rp > or his .Maiestv s Council. 



JOHX i UKNKIl. 5 



Theopiiilus Burkill. 

 Jurat the 21th day of May, 1722. 



^ r. Bexj. Lyxde, ; ,. , . ,, . , , ^ ., . 



Before us, t t ? "i 1^'s Maiesty s Council. 



' JOHX lUlEXER, 5 -^ -^ 



Wm. Gedxey. 



Essex, ss, Salem, 19th of July, 1722. 



Jurat, Cor. 



Bexj. Lyxde, } p i • ^t • . , r^ ., 

 T .p Vol his Maiestv s Counci . 



JOHX lURNEK, 5 



John Williams. 



Essex, ss, Salem, the 7th of Aug't, 1722. 



i\Ir. Jolm Williams took the above Oath before us, 



Bex.t. Lyxde, ') n ^ • ^^ ■ . , r^ -i 

 T rp > ot his iMaiesty s Counci . 



JoHX lunxER, 3 -^ "^ 



Mr. F. W. PuTXAM read a communication from Coiimio- 

 dore B. F. Sands of the United States Naval Observatory 

 requesting the several scientific societies to memorialize 

 congress for an appropriation t(; defray the expenses for a 

 due observation of the Transit of Venus in December, 

 1874. 



Referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. Kiml)all, 

 Uphani, and the chair to report at the next meeting. 



Adj. 



