Middletown, January 16th, 1777.
Voted, To purchase all the blankets and the suitable white linens imported in the Dutch vesseU at N. London, also fifteen pipes of wine if to be had at a reasonable price, also shirts and stockings, and medicine to be chosen by the doctors, and such other articles as are necessary for supplying the army with arms, ammunition, refreshments &c., excepting gunpowder. And Messrs. Nathl Shaw junr and Andrew Huntington are appointed to purchase the same for the publick as reasonably as they can.
1. Hoadly, ed., Connecticut State Records, I, 156, 157.