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mittee appointed to make arrangements for election day presented a list of names of gentlemen to be invited to the dinner.

Friday evening, May 31, 1811, the Company met at Capt. Thomas Clark's (1786) room, when Gen. Arnold Welles was admitted a member of the Company. Gen. Welles (1811) was immediately waited upon by a committee, who informed him of his election, and requested his presence at the Hall. (This was probably for the purpose of obtaining his consent to command the Artillery Company for the ensuing year.) Gen. Winslow (1786) declined to act longer as the treasurer of the Company: Thanks were voted to him for his faithful services in that office for thirteen years.

Monday, June 3, 1811, anniversary and election day, the usual ceremonies were observed. The Boston Hussars performed this day their first tour of duty in escorting his Excellency the commander-in-chief from his residence in Cambridge to Boston, to attend the military exercises of the day. This new corps excited general attention, and in the morning received an elegant standard, presented by William Phillips, Esq.

At eleven o'clock the Artillery Company marched to Major George Blanchard's (1794) house, on High Street, where the Company was presented with an elegant standard by Ebenezer Torrey (1765), of Lancaster, who accompanied it with the following address:

"Ensign Bird [1801]: To your immediate guardianship I intrust this sacred banner, more dear to a soldier's heart than the life-blood which animates it, and flatter myself the donation will not be the less acceptable coming from the hand of the senior member of our ancient Company. During a period of one hundred, three score and thirteen years, your predecessors in the office of standard-bearer have never permitted the colors of this ancient corps to be tarnished with a stain of dishonor, and were I not confident that their great example will be religiously emulated by you and your successors, instead of consigning this deposit to you, I would consign it to the flames. Our fathers encountered imminent dangers from without and within with courage and success, and should the duties of patriotism and the demands of national honor call on their posterity of this ancient Company to draw their swords, and display their banners in a just and necessary war, I am confident you will obey the call with alacrity, and prove yourselves not unworthy to be enrolled as the sons of such renowned progenitors." To which Ensign Bird (1801) replied: "Respected sir: With pride and satisfaction I receive from your hand this elegant standard; and, in behalf of this ancient Company, I pledge myself that whenever our beloved country shall call upon us to unfurl it in defence of its honor, liberties, and independence, that it shall never be wrested from our hands while life is left in our bodies to defend it."

The sermon was delivered in the First Church by Rev. Mr. Holley. More than two hundred persons, including the Company, were present at the dinner. Among the distinguished guests present was Hon. Alexander James Dallas, of Philadelphia, secretary of the treasury under President Madison, and father of Hon. George M. Dallas, Vice-President of the United States during Mr. Polk's administration. He offered the following volunteer toast: "The State of Massachusetts. Her principles gave us the Union; may her principles be displayed in preserving it."

At the election upon the Common the following-named gentlemen were chosen for the ensuing year: Brig.-Gen. Arnold Welles (1811), captain; Major Benjamin Russell (1788), lieutenant; Major George Blanchard (1794), ensign and treasurer; Ensign Samuel T. Armstrong (1807), Mr. George Welles (1807), Mr. Peter Conant, Jr. (1807),

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