In Committee of Safety, Ex'r [Exeter], Oct'r 18th, 1775.
Sr
You are desired to Sell at 20 pr Cwt. a Quantity of the Flour lately put under your Care, not exceeding 300 bbls. to such Persons as appear as purchasers, taking Care that no person monopolize a large Quantity, & out of the money arising from the Sale, pay the Seamen of the Ship Prince George ー Richard Emms, Master ー the Wages that Shall appear due to them, agreeable to their original Contract, & keep in your Custody the Remainder of the Money until called for by this Committee, or the Congress of this Colony.
By order of the Committee.
Chairman.
1. Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, VII, 22.