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REVOLUTIONARY WAR ROLLS AND DOCUMENTS.
No.
MEN'S NAMES. .
Time of Inlistment
Ages.
Place of abode
62
John Burbanks
Jany. 15.
23
Arrundell
63
Nath1. Kennard
II.
2I
Kittery
64
Luke Foster
- -
Ist
40
Portsmº.
65
John Carter
Feby. 8
18
Kittery
66
Downing Coolbroth
-
12
18
Durham
67
Joseph Applebey
- -
I2
20
Do.
Portsmo' feby 12, 1776.
Geo. Gains
Abstract of a Pay Roll for Capt. George Turner's Company sta- tioned at Pescataqua Harbour - 1776 -
I Captain from Jany 15 to Jany 30th. 15 days @ 8 £ Pr Mo.
£ 4-11-11
I Lieutenant
" 15 days
@ 110/
5- 10- //
3 Sergeants
I month 15 days
@ 50/
3-15-//
3 Corporals
- 2 months 15 days -
45/
5-12- 6
3
Privates
17 months 5 days
41/
35-3-10
II
Paid Feb. 22/76 -
£ 54. I. 4
Exd
P. Boyey
Portm° Feby - 6th. 1776-
Please to pay to Capt George Turner or order what is due to us the subscribers for our services in the Field Artilery Compy. when under command of said Turner also for services in said compy. when under Command of D' Hall Jackson and his Receapt shall be a Discharge from your Hbl Servt.
Ebenezer Dearing John Marden Sam1 Hutchings John Dennett John Gardner Jun".
Thomas Sherburne William Yeaton Ichabod Shorer John Melcher William Ward
2
I
Ditto
" 15 days
I Drummer I Fifer
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Robert Tate
Henry Snagg
George Trefaran George Loud
John Davenport
Willm Gowen
John Hooker
John Pitman
Georg Jackson
Samuel Sherref
Timothy Gerrish
Richard Kitsson
John Beck Jun".
Mark Pitman
Mark Chadbourn
Shackford Seaward
Daniel Jackson Jun".
Edmd Butler
Elliott Dearing
Richard Woods
Richard Pasons
Robert Colefax
Wm. Knight
Robert Chandler
Renald Furnald
William Hart Jun'
Joseph Tapley
Solomon Thompson
Nathaniel Pitman
John Thompson
Ezekiel Pitman his
James Swett
Thomas X Priest mark
Cotton Mather Stevens
John Griffin
Joshua Lang Hunttress
Robert Furnald
Winthrop Bennet
John Barns
John Reding Jun™ Robt Bokell
George King Jun".
Timothy Wintworth Barrons
Wm Cambridge
enoch Davis
Andrew Tooms
Seth Walker
Solo Lowd
[Committee of Safety to Congress.]
[Original in Department of State Washington, D. C.]
Exeter February 8th. 1776
Sir/
Before the Reception of your Letters of the 12th. & 20th of January an account of the unfortunate affair at Quebec came to hand, with a Requisition from his Excellency General Washington for this colony to Raise a Regiment for that Service, which was Immediately attended to, The Field Officers appointed & orders for Enlist.& the men given out. As so great a Proportion of the men in the Eastern,
Henry Meserve Benjamin Chandler Clemt Jackson Jun™ John Underwood Ephraim Dennett Sam1 Elliott
Samuel Yeaton
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and Middle part of the Colony were Engaged, at the Grand Army and to Guard our Sea Coast, It was Judged best to Endeavour the Raising this on the Western Frontiers, and everthing that was tho't Expedient had been done to forward the purpose -
We hear Some Companies have marched and expect the whole Battalion consisting of the Number desired will Follow them in a few days - Before our design of Rais.s this Regiment was known in the Western parts, upwards of One hundred men from this Colony had Enlisted under officers appointed by Collo Warner of the Green Mounting Boys, and Marched - And are we Suppose before this Time at Quebec-
By order of the Committee I have the Honour to be
Sir Your Mº. hum Serv Meshech Weare Chairman Hon. ble John Hancock Esq
[Addressed] The Honble John Hancock Esq
President of the American Congress att Philadelphia
[Endorsed] No. 6 Letter from Convention of New Hampshire, Feby 8, 1776 Read 4 March, 1776.
[R. 5-32] [Petition of a Committee Concerning Price of Goods.]
To the Honble Councill and House of Representatives of the Colony of Newhampshire -
The Petition of a Committee chosen out of the Committees of Cor- respondence or Safety for the severall Towns of Newberry Port New- berry Bradford Andover Boxford Salsberry Haverhill Methuen [Mass.] Londonderry Plaistow Newsalem [Salem, N. H.] and Atkin- son in the Neighbor-Hood of Merrimack River having Commercial Intercourse with each other part of which Towns are in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and part in the Colony of Newhampshire humbly sheweth -
That the honble american Congress Did by their association agree That Venders of goods and merchandize should not take advantage of any scarcity of goods occasioned by their association But should sell the same at the rates they had been Respectively accustomed to
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do for Twelve months then last past and by their other Recommend- ations and the spirit of the Proceedings- We apprehend they Intended that no unreasonable advantage should be taken in the sale of other foreign Commodities or in the Produce of our farms or our own manufactures That it is generally said that Numbers of Persons among us and in our Neighbourhood from selfish Principals and Disre- garding the public welfare have advanced the prices of their goods to Near Double what they used to sell them for and that maney of them have Endeavoured to engross the most saleable artickles and bought them up at the retaill price and Immediately advanced upon that retaill price above thirty per cent it is also said that the farmers upon like selfish motives have hoarded up Corn Grain and other Neces- saries of life or sold them out at the most Exorbitant prices that the Labouring People and those not concerned in this unjust Commerce oppressed both by the farmer and merchant are groaning under their burthens and will be unable much longer to Endure them that we fear a spirit of Discontent Tumult and Disorder will rise among us unless speedily prevented by the Interposition of this Honble court the fatall consequences of which may be a Disunion and Backward- ness in or Defection from the Common Cause of America
Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray this Honble Court would take the Premises into their serious Consideration and apply such speedy and effectuall Remedy to the Evills above complained off as may seem Proper and as in duty bound shall Ever pray &c
Isaac Redington Chairman Haverhill [Mass.] Feb'ye 29 : 1776 .-
[R. 5-33] [Captain Carlisle's Order.]
Otter Creek March Ist 1776
Major Jnº Bellows - Sir For value received Please to pay Mr Gil- more and Perkins Twenty five dollars which they have lent me to hire a Sleigh with. Sir dont fail of paying the above sum upon sight pr me
Dan1 Carlisle Capt
Walpole March 6th 1776- Recd of Jnº Bellows the full of the within order for the within mentioned purpose
Pr me Robert Gilmor James Perkins
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[R. 5-34] Capt Elipt Daniels accot of Stoppages &c -
Fort Sulervin March 1776
And Accot of Money In Capt Daniels Hands for Mens Wages that Did Not Belong to the Comp'y for the Numbr of Days against Each Mans Name
Alexander Kirkwood 30 Days pª 7 days. 2. I. pd 9. 4 £I. I2. 8
James McEntire 13 Ditto O. 17.
4
Richª Wilson Jun'
5 Ditto
6.
8
James Billings 5 Ditto
6. 8
Francis Drew 30 Ditto @ 45/ pr mth pª 15/ I. IO. -
From June 17th To July 17th 1776
Samuel Clark 2 Days
£ o. 2. 8
Samuel Fletcher 2 Days
2.
8
Edward Furnald 2 Days 2.
8
Archabel Campwell 4 Days 5.
4
Gideon Hunt 4 Days 5.
4
Abraham Weeks half pound 2 Days
2.
8
Powder & Iron Balls
3.
6
Eben' Willey 22 Cartriges
5.
6 I. IO. 4 .
From July To Augt 17th 1776 -
Isaac Staple 9 Days paid Eben' Pray 9/ 3. 0
Stephen Ginkins 9 Days
12. -
L. my £ 6. 18. 8
Wood Carrd of the Island at Sund'y times
Oak Plank & Timber made in a Slead & sent Home
One pound & half pound Powder from the Magazine sent Home
The above accot. Is By Capt Daniels Desire Mendum Janvrin
[R. 5-35] [Concerning Bounty on Manufacture of Salt Petre.]
Colony of New Hampshire March 12th. 1776.
To the Honble Council & house of representatives of said Colony in general assembly convencd -
The humble petition of the Subscribers adventurers in the manu- facture of Salt Petre in said Colony humbly shews, That we find
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the bounty granted by vote of the last Congress of said Colony is Insufficient for the Encouragement of the Manufacturing Salt Petre and will not answer the good Purposes thereby Designed, as only one Person or a few combined can reap the advantage thereof which will prove a Discouragement to other undertakers who may make as much within an ounce as those who shall reap the benefit of the said Bounty & after having expended as much or more in their efforts to have only the Consolation of disposing of the product of their Labour & expence for Less than half the prime cost.
wherefore your Petitioners would humbly suggest that it might more readily encourage that Important Manufacture if you should vacate the vote of the said Congress & in Lieu thereof give such a Bounty # pound for all that shall be made in said Colony within a . Limited Time as to your wisdom shall appear just & adequate - whereby we humbly conceive many more Persons who could not hope to obtain said Bounty would be Induced to undertake the making the same & contribute their mite to the Public Benefit - wherefore your Petitioners pray that you would grant such a bounty on, or fix such a price } pound to be paid out of the Public Treasury for all Salt Petre that shall be manufactured in said Colony as shall encourage a General procedure in so usefull & at this time Important an Undertaking & your Petitioners as in duty bound shail pray &c
William Morrill Willet Peterson Samuel Sweat
Benjn Connor Sam1 Brooks John Calef
Moody Morss John Calef Juner Jacob Gale
Zacchs Clough
Isaac Hills
[In House of Representatives March 21, 1776, it was voted that the stated price of salt petre should be three shillings and six pence per pound, exclusive of the bounty .- ED.]
[R. 5-36] [Kittery Fire Rafts.]
To the Honble. Council and House of Representatives of the Colony of New Hampshire convened at Exeter in sd Colony --
The Petition of the Comtee of Correspondence of the Town of Kittery in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay humbly sheweth That in the Month of Octobr last past when every one in our neigh- boring Towns with ourselves were greatly alarmed at the apprehen- sion of our Enemies speedy approach did with the utmost dispatch compleat two pair of fire rafts (agreeable to the desire and directions
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of the Committee of Correspondence in Portsmº.) and sent there, the acct of which cost your Honours have herewith inclosed and pray an allowance be made us for the charge by ordering the payment to be made (if your Honours in your Wisdom see cause) to Mr. William Leighton for the said Committee of sd Town of Kittery, and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall every pray-
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Kittery March 14th. 1776. By order of the Committee John H. Bartlet Chairman
March 20th 1776 Voted not to grant the prayer of this Petition
[R. 5-37] [Relative to East Kingston Company.]
Colony of New Hampshire -To the Honourable House of Repre- sentatives now setting at Exeter the Petion of a Number of the train'g soldiers of East Kingstown Humbly sheweth : whereas this Company is without any officers : Lieu : Colonel Gale neglecting to call the Company together that they might be appointed according to order of Congress : therefore we the Petioners Humbly Pray that we might be call'd together that there might be some appointed for said Company
March the 18th 1776
Joseph Bean John Morrill Eliphalet Webster Jonathan Ladd Webster
[R. 5-38]
[Piscataqua Harbor Troops.]
To the Honble the General Assembly of the Colony of New Hamp- shire now convened at Exeter -
The Petition of Stephen Clark humbly sheweth that he Received orders from the Congress of this Colony in the month of October last to Inlist one Hundred able bodied effective men for the protec- tion of Piscataqua Harbour and that in consequence of said orders he Inlisted the said number of men and marched them to Piscataqua & tarried there with said men until Major Joseph Cilley by an appoint- ment from the Committee of Safety Reviewed said Company & without assigning any particular Reason dismissed Twenty five men from said company all of whom appeared to your Petitioner as well qualified for the Colony service as those that were accepted - Where-
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fore your Petitioner prays an allowance may be made him for the cost and trouble in Inlisting and marching said men to Piscataqua your Petitioner also further prays for & in behalf of the said dismissed soldiers that they may have full pay from the time of their Inlistment to the time of their dismission from said service as a general uneasi- ness appeared among them at that time which unless redressed your Petitioner is fearfull will have a dangerouce tendency as this Colony may in future stand in need of all the aid that can be obtained from the Soldiery - Gentlemen an answer in favour of the above prayer will add to the favours already Received by your Petitioner
Exeter 19th March 1776 Stephen Clark
[R. 5-39] [Petition. - Matross Co., Fort Washington.]
To the Honourable the Councell & House of Representatives for the Colony of New Hampshire now convened at Exeter for the Dis- patch of Publick Business. The Humble Petition of the Mattross company commanded by Capt. Titus Salter - Humbly Sheweth to your honours that Influenced with a Love to their country & posterety they with chearfulness Engaged in the publick service with a Fixt determination in Every Respect to Repel force by force of our Insid- ious & Sanguinary Enemys
That at the time of our Enlistment they had the word of honour of their Captain to be in Every Respect on the same footing with the continental Army Commanded by his Excellency General Wash- ington -
That your petitioners are Informed that the Army at the head quarters are Entitled to a blankett or as an Equivalent thereof off twelve Shillings -That your Petitioners hitherto have not neither Received a blankett or money for the same - that as your petitioners views your honours as the Guardians of our Invaluable Rights & Lib- ertys and the Fountain of Justice - they humbly pray your honours to take the prayer of their petition under consideration and grant them such Releif as may be consistent with the Honour & Dignity of the Colony and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall Ever pray -
Fort Washington March 20th 1776
Signed in behalf & by the Desire of the Company
Corporells
John Abbot
Henry Frost Cates Thomas Jones George Reed
David Cops
Joseph Day -
Joshua Grant Richard Jenkins
Sergeants
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A Muster role of the Field Artilery Company und. Command of Capt. Ebeneser Dearing as mustered by Majt Hackett this 22ª March 1776.
[Original in Pension Bureau.]
MENS NAMES
Age
Place of Abode.
-
I Sam1. Hutchings Lieut.
31 years
Portsmouth
2 John Gardner Jun' Sergt
27
do
3 Shackford Seaward, Sergt
44
do
4
Henry Meserve Sergt
26
do
5 John Underwood Corp1.
28
do
6
George King Jun
24
do
7
Ichabod Shorer
24
do
8 Henry Moore
19
Kittery
9
John Moore
30
do
IO
Rob. Briar
25
do
II
Richd. Parsons
25
do
12
John Bartor
37
do
13
Pella. Weeks
34
do
14
Pella. Bartor
34
do
15
Joseph Gerrish
22
Portsmouth
16
John Caverly
22
do
17
Charles Grace
22
do
18
Robt. Stokell, Drum'
26
do
19
Joshua Kanwell
26
do
20
Sam1. Yeaton.
28
do
21
Sam1 Morrison
25
do
22
Geo. Jackson Jun"
27
do
23
Wm Cambridge
30
do
24
Wm. Gowen
20
do
25
Clemt. Jackson Junr.
34
do
X
Sam !. Bennitt
do
26
Timº Gerrish
20
do
27
Tho : Gasemore
32
Kittery
28
Theod' Furnald fiff
18
Portsmº.
29
Geo. Lowd
25
do
30 John Tucker
26
do
31
Wm Brawton
34
do
32
Solomon Thompson
22
do
33 Peter Musheway
34
do
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MENS NAMES
Age
Place of Abode.
34 Archabald Thompson
23 years
Portsmº.
35 Nich1. Buffuard
37
do
X Nath1 Mendum
do
36 Joseph Clark
2I
do
37
Richd Perry
38
do
X
Sam1. Fletcher
Kittery
X
John Trott
do
X
John Loler
do
X
Ebenezer Janveien
Portsmº.
X
Abraham Weeks
Kittery
38
Nath1. Woodman
23
Portsmº
39
Jnº Griffin [? ]
25
do
40
Thos. Bowler
24
do
41
Joseph Fitzgerald
22
do
42
John Hall
19
do
Portsmº. March 22d 1776
Pursuant to an Order from the Honbl Mesheck Weare Esq'. have Mustered Capt Ebn' Dearings Company & passed the underwritten Numbred forty two men Including officers who are able bodied effective men & well accoutred - N. B. forty three men Including Capt Eben'. Dearing.
James Hackett, Muster Master.
[Hibbard Collection,* Vol. IV. p. 86.]
Received March 25th. 1776 of William Bell on account & in behalf of Colo. Israel Morey Esqr. Two Pounds of Powder & Eight pounds of Bullits which I received out of Colony stores for the use of a Party of Men whereof I command - Now bound for Canada.
Sam1. Fowler
* [This valuable collection of manuscripts was made by Mrs. Sarah King (Hale) Hibbard, of Bath ; and after her decease was presented to the New Hampshire Historical Society by her brother, Hon. George S. Hale, of Boston .- ED.]
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[Ibid]
Chambly April 2ª 1776
the bearer with 23 privates & I Sabalton has Drawn at this place 125 pounds of pork & 175 Weight of Bread for five days from the 2ª to the 6 day of April both days Inclusive
Caleb Benedict Commissary
[Ibid, p. 88]
We acknowledge to have Recd of Israel Morey three Pounds Law- full being one months advance Pay in Capt Joshua Hayward Comp'y in Col. David Gilman Regiment in Continental Sarvise this 20th December 1776.
Recd. by each of us severally
John Marston Giles Follet
Ichabod Sawyer Benjamin Follet
John Woodworth
[R. 5-40]
[Receipts for Guns at the Cedars.]
Received out of Coll. Bedels Stores Nine Guns Eight Prizd at 2. 2. 0 each & one Prizd at 2. 14. 0 which I Promise to see Returned in to the Stores or account for the same at the Close of the Campain Ceders May 9, 1776 - Joseph Estabrook Capt
[Daniel Williams receipted for thirteen, at seven dollars apiece ; and Ebenezer Green for three, at £ 2. 8. o each. See Vol. XIV. p. 477 .- ED.]
[R. 5-41] [Petition from Men who were in Service at Winter Hill, 1776.]
To the Honourable Gen1. Court of the State of New Hampshire -
Gentlemen -We the Pertitioners do Humbley Beg that your Hon- ours would lend apearant Ear to our Pertition ware as their is a Num- ber of us which was in the Searvis of the United Stats for Eight months at Winter Hill in the Regt Commanded then by Colo. Starks and we have Not Recd. our wagers for two months of the Time we also Pertition to your Honours for address - we think ware as we
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have Searved our Engagements out faithfully we are intitled to our wagers and without your Honours will asist us we must loos it - therefore we aple to your Honours for address hopping that your Honours will take it into Consideration and help us - ware as we think it high time that we had our pay, you may Rightly say that we aut to apply to our officers for the same - and theirfore we would let your Honours know that we have and that we Cant have any help without your Honours will see fit to help us -
Theirfore we Humbley beg that [your] Honours would take it into Consideration and grant thy Pertitioners their Request
Shurborn Dearborn Josiah Brown James Kenniston
Samuel Sherborn
David Page
[R. 5-42]
[John Griffith's Petition, 1776.]
The Petition of John Griffith a Soldier in Captain Dearing's Com- pany of Artillery - Humbly Sheweth - That on the 19th day of March last past, he enlisted himself a Soilder in Capt Dearings Com- pany at which time he was in perfect health and free from all lame- ness, that on the 22th day of the same month he was mustered able and effective by the muster master appointed for that purpose. That on the night of Sunday the 24th of said March he stood Sentry four Hours at the Powder House at Northwest end of the Town of Portsmouth, the weather being extreemly cold he Froze the great Toe of his right foot in such a manner that he lost the nail and great part of the flesh down to the Bone - That he was not only confined two months but suffered great pain. That your Petitioner was fully determined faithful and diligently to have served his Country in the Capacity of a soilder during the full time he enlisted for, had the ser- vice been ever so hard and dangerous, and in thus doing his duty, he was rendered incapable of procuring himself any Suport and is dis- charged from the Service - He therefore humbly prays the Honor- able Court to take the matter into consideration restore him again to his Company and allow him wages for the past time having never as yet received a farthing -
John Griffith
To The Hon. ble General Court Conveind at Exeter
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Head Quarters at Portsmouth May ye 4th 1776 -
this may Certify whom it may Concern that John Griffith a Solder in Cap Dearings Company of Artillery being rendered unfit for ser- vice by Reason of Lameness is Discharged from sd Company - David Gilman Colo
[He was allowed his wages by vote of the General Court, June, 1776. - ED.]
[R. 5-43] [General Folsom to Colonel Stickney.]
Concord May 16, 1776
Sr. In consequence of orders Recd this morning, from Maj' Gen1 Folsom .- You are Required, on sight hereof, Immediately to give orders to all the Captains in your Department vizt. Boscawen, Can- terbury, New Salisbury & New Britton, [Andover] to direct their several Companies to hold themselves in Readiness to March on the shortest, Notice, & that they forthwith equip themselves in the best manner they can - & you are to take the most unwearied pains to examine into the state of the soldiers & in particular, see their fire- arms are kept in the utmost readiness for action, & in case of alarm or certain notice of the Landing of any Troops either in this Colony or the Massachusetts & our assistance is required - that you give orders to the several Companies in your Department, to Muster & March as many Men as can possibly be Raised out of them, properly officerd with Captains & Subalterns according to the number of Men to the place where sd Troops are landed, to assist in Repell- ing them, & you may assure such officers & solders that may March on any such alarm they shall be paid for the Time they continue in the service, the same Wages & Billeting as the other Troops raised in this Colony for the public service, & that they shall not be detained any longer than the Emergency of such alarm may require - & that you require an immediate Return to be made you, from the 'several Captains in yr Department of the exact state of their Compa- nies & transmit the same to me forthwith.
By order of the Major General for this Colony.
L' Co1 Henry Gerrish - Boscawen, Canterbury, New Salisbury & New Britton.
Maj' Nathan Bachellor - Loudon, Chichester & Epsom
Majr Isaac Chandler - Hopkintown, Hinniker, Hillsborough & War- ner.
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[May 7, 1776, the Committee of Safety "ordered General Folsom to direct the colonels of the several regiments in the counties of Rockingham, Strafford, and Hillsborough to hold themselves in read- iness to march in case of an invasion." The original of the foregoing, which is somewhat mutilated, was probably directed to Col. Thomas Stickney .- ED.]
[R. 5-44] [Petition from Prisoners of War.]
To the Hon' the Council & the House of Representatives for the Colony of New Hampshire -
The Petition of John Frazer and James Taylor late Master & Cheif Mate of the Ship Susannah Humbly sheweth - That your Pe- titioners sail'd from London on the 9 of December last, bound to Bos- ton & the Moskitto shore, that on the 6 of March following the sd Ship was taken, & themselves made Prisoners, by four of the Conti- nental armed vessels under command of Com' Manly & bro't into the Port of Piscataqua, that after they were discharged from sd Ship, they were by the agent & several other Gent. advised to prefer a Pe- tition to his Excely Gen1. Washington (under whose direction those armed vessels were,) the Prayer of which his Excely was pleased to grant, & gave your Petitioners leave to Purchase a vessel, that they might proceed wherever their Business called them, that after obtain- ing this leave from his Excy. (which he was also pleased to signify to the agent here) your Petitioners in Comp'y with Capt. Richard Emms did Publickly purchase a Small Sloop fitted her for sea & provided themselves with stores, intending to proceed directly to the Moskitto shore where one of your Petitioners has much of his Interest laying in which proceedings your Petitioners were countenanced & encour- aged by many Gent. of this Colony & when they applyed to the Colony Collector were by him advised to proceed, & assured they should meet with no delay on acco. of the necessary Papers - That afterward on application for clearance the Collector informed them he had received orders from the President of the Council & Com- mittee of Safety to Prevent their further proceedings - Your Peti- tioners afterward made application to the Hon' the Committee of Safety of this Colony, for leave to proceed on their intended voyage, & were by them informed that nothing further could be done till your Honours were met in Gen1 Assembly.
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