The Virginia Gazette

We learn from Worcester, that on Saturday morning last there assembled on the common, in that town, 1500 people, and made choice of 5 of their number as a committee, viz. Messieurs Joseph Gilbert, John Goulding, Edward Rawson, Thomas Dennie, and Joshua Biglow, to wait on the honourable Timothy Paine, esquire, lately appointed councellor by mandamus from his majesty, to demand of him satisfaction to the people for having qualified himself for said office; and having waited on Mr. Paine accordingly, he asked them what satisfaction they wanted: They answered, a total resignation of his office, and desired him to write it. Upon which he withdrew, and in a few minutes returned to them with what he had wrote, which was a total resignation of his office, and a promise never to sit again as councellor, unless agreeable to charter; he then asked if that was satisfactory? They replied that he must wait upon the people, which he thought unreasonable, after he had complied with their demand; but they said it was in vain; unless he made his personal appearance, the people would not be satisfied; and after their promising to protect him from insult, he waited on them to the body of the people, where Mr. Dennie's resignation was read, with which numbers were dissatisfied, requiring that Mr. Paine should read it himself, and that with his hat off. He then told the committee that he had complied with all they required, on their promising him protection, and that he then called upon them for it; but they gave him to understand the people would not be satisfied till he complied with their demand, which he did, and was then conducted near to his own house by the committee, and dismissed. The people then drew off, those of each town forming a company, and marched for Rutland, the town in which the honourable John Murray, esquire (another new councellor) resides. Our informant could give us no farther information how they proceeded.