Mr Speaker communicated a Letter from a Number of Gentlemen at Falmouth, giving an Account of an Attack upon it, and of the Desolation the Enemy had made by fire. ー

Read and sent up ー

Benjn White, Esqr brought down a Memorial from Saml Stanwood, Chairman of the Committee of Safety and Correspondence of Brunswick Bowdoinham and Topsham, representing that nine Sale of Vessels, with a clearance from Nantucket, had arriv'd in Kennebeck River for Wood and Provisions, without licence from any Committee, and that they had order'd the Vessels to be stop'd and hawl'd up ー till they can receive the Ordr of Court respecting them

Read, and committed to Mr Durfey, Mr. Woodbridge Deacon Plympton, Colo Lovel, and Colo Orne

A Letter from Timothy Langdon, of Boothbay inclosing a Petition from Majr Edward Emerson in behalf and at the desire of the Officers of the eastern Regiment in the County of Lincoln, setting forth their deficiency in Arms and Ammunition, and praying that part of the Cargo of Powder and Arms lately arriv'd there in the Schooner Brittannia, may be ordd for the Use of Colo Cargill's Regiment.

Read, and committed to the Committee appoint'd to consider the Expediency of ordering that any part of the Powder & Arms, arriv'd at Boothbay, should remain in the eastern part of the Province. ー

Afternoon

A Petition of Jerathmeel Bowers, setting forth that one John Shard on on board Capt: Wallace's Ship, has a family on shore that need [his care and assistance] that Cap Wallace has endeavour'd to tempt him to pilot his ship up the River ー and therefore prays to be redeemed by a Man from Tauton Goal.

Read and committed to Colo Godfrey, Mr Starkweather, and Colo Thompson.