January, 1781. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations : begun and holden (in consequence of warrants issued by His Excellency the governor) at East-Greenwich, within and for the state aforesaid, on Wedneday [as printed], the seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the fifth year of independence. ...