[Providence] Jany 29th 1776
Meeting in being according to adjournment
Voted That Mr Ethanah [Palmer] be imployed to get the Four Masts for the Ships (in the room of Mr Caleb Bowen) and that he proceed to get the sticks cut and Transported by Land to providence if p[ossible] if not then to have them brot to Wrentham if it cannot be done to either of the above places, then to get them to Taunton the best Terms he can. That he also get two Bowsprits the one to be 52 feet long 25 Inches Diameter the other to be 4[8] feet long & 23 Inches Diameter to be transported in the same manner as the masts.
Voted. That Mr George Olney be employed as Clerk to keep the Books of Accompts necessary in the Building of the Ships & to Transact any other Business the Committee may employ him about the [sic that] he have six pounds twelve shillings P month for the said Service he to bord himself in the neighbourhood and give constant attendance till the Business be done in the Evening. ー
Reckoning 23/ paid by Col Nightingale
Meeting adjourned to Wednesday evening 6 o'clock