page 694 The patriots of Boston were greatly encouraged by the response of the towns of the interior. Two weeks after the instructions had been given to Mr. DENNY, the Boston Committee of Correspondence wrote to the committee in Leicester, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the proceedings, and added, "We think it must supprize our oppressors to read your very ingenious and sensible Resolves, and your Instructions to your worthy Representative." In Sept. 1774 Thomas DENNY was chosen Representative to the Great and General Court, which, driven from Boston, metthe next month in Salem, and instructed to be sworn only by an officer appointed under the Charter, and to refuse to be sworn by the Lieutenant-Govenor. Mr. DENNY died soon after the assembly of the Congress, and Col. Joseph HENSHAW was chosen his successor.