Extract from the Gazette, 1741
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 8, 1741.

On Tuesday last Clement Plumsted, Esq; was elected Mayor of this City for the ensuing Year: When Robert Strettell, William Parsons, William Rawle, Thomas Hopkinson, Samuel Rhodes, and Andrew Hamilton, Son of Andrew Hamilton Esq; lately deceas’d, were chosen Common-Council-Men. And the following Gentlemen were promoted Aldermen, to wit, William Till, Joseph Turner, James Hamilton, and Benjamin Shoemaker. [October 8]

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