New London, Sept. 7th, 1775
[Extract]
Capt. Champlin, in a small sloop of Shaw's, brought from the Mole all the Macaroni's Powder, about four tons, arrived two days since; and [Captain William] Packwood tarries, expecting powder from France to the Mole every hour.
1. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, II, 302. Deane was a Connecticut delegate in the Continental Congress. Saltonstall, member of a prominent New London family, was a colonel in the Connecticut militia.
