IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 5, 1796.
This being the day appointed by the constitution for the annual meeting of Congress, in the House of Representatives, the following named members appeared and took their seats, viz:
From New Hampshire.—Abiel Foster, Nicholas Gilman, John S. Sherburne, and Jeremiah Smith.
From Massachusetts.—Fisher Ames, Theophilus Bradbury, Henry Dearborn, Dwight Foster, Nathaniel Freeman, Jr., Samuel Lyman, William Lyman, John Read, George Thatcher, Joseph B. Varnum, and Peleg Wadsworth.
From Rhode Island.—Francis Malbone.
From Connecticut.—Joshua Coit, Chauncey Goodrich, Roger Griswold, Nathaniel Smith, and Zephaniah Swift.
From New York.—Theodorus Bailey, William Cooper, Ezekiel Gilbert, Henry Glenn, Jonathan N. Havens, John E. Van Allen, Philip Van Cortlandt, and John Williams.
From New Jersey.—Jonathan Dayton, Aaron Kitchell, and Isaac Smith.