Voted, That the Club, together with such gentlemen as please to join them, from this or the neighboring towns, will dine together at M Wethrel's upon the ensuing anniversary, and that the clerk of this Club send a copy of this vote to the Rev. M: Turner and inform him that the Club expect the pleasure of his company on that day. Voted, That the Club and their friends will spend the anniversary evening at the Hall. Voted, That the Rev. M Bacon and the Rev. M! Robbins, and also the Social Club, be invited to dine and spend the evening, as also such other gentlemen of the clergy as may be in town. December 15. At a meeting of the Old Colony Club.1 Present: Pelham Winslow Edward Winslow John Watson Edward Winslow Robert Treat Paine Daniel Leonard, Esqres Elkanah Cushman 1 These Records closing with December 15, 1773, we have no account here of the celebration of the anniversary on the 22d. It is well known that Mr. Turner delivered the address or sermon, as he had agreed to, for it was published, and a copy is in the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, - but whether under the auspices of the Club or of the Town the titlepage does not tell us. The title is, "A Sermon preached at Plymouth December 22d, 1773, Being the anniversary Thanksgiving, in Commemoration of the Landing of the Fathers there, A. D. 1620. By Charles Turner, A. M." etc. Boston, 1774. Dr. Thacher, however, in his History of Plymouth, pp. 339, 340, in a list of preachers and orators at Plymouth on the anniversary celebrations, says, under 1773. "By Charles Turner, For Old Colony Club. By the Town and by the first Parish; " so that no doubt the sermon was preached before the Club, and the town and First Parish participated in the celebration. From this time to the year 1780, the anniversary was celebrated by the town with a discourse; and also from 1794 to 1819. 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