Sr.
In Committee of Safety, Octr 18, 1775. We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yrs of the 15th Inst. & we are deeply sensible of your benevolence towards the Inhabitants of Portsmo.
We have consulted the Committee of that Town and concluded to forward the whole cargo except 400 barrels.
A person of integrity is appointed to weigh off & take an Account of the whole Cargo, to sell three hundred bbls. thereof, & to the Inhabitants of Portsmo, & out of the Proceeds to pay the sailors' wages.
Before the receipt of yrs, Mr. Moylan had settled the method of Transportation.
In behalf of the Committee [&c.]
1. Bouton, ed., Documents and Records of New Hampshire, VII, 620.