[1] The council met on the 16th, 17th, 20th, 24th and 27th of May,
1692. On the 27th the appointments named (of sixty-seven justices,
eight sheriffs, and two coroners) were made. The twenty-eight
councillors were also authorized to act as justices in their own
localities. This injury to the manuscript was occasioned by its being
thrown into the street during the stamp-act riot on the evening of
August 26, 1765, when Gov. Hutchinson’s house was sacked. In his
subsequent draft, as the date was missing, he did not supply it, but
said “At the first general council,” &c. This paragraph commences on
page 8 of the manuscript.