The Committee on the State of the Schooner and Cargo belonging to George Erving and Capt. [Benjamin] Wormwell reported.²

Read and accepted. Whereas the Committee of Correspondence of the Town of Plymouth, did sometime past, take into their Possession three fourth Parts of the Cargo of said Schooner, consisting of Rum, Sugar, and Molasses, belonging to George Erving, Inhabitant of Boston, and have detained the said Schooner, three fourths of which belong to said Erving, waiting the Orders of this Court. Therefore Resolved, That the said Committee of Correspondence be, and they hereby arc ordered to sell and dispose of that Part of the Cargo aforesaid, to the Commissary-General of the Continental Army, he paying the Prices usually given for such Articles; which Money shap be paid to the Treasurer and Receiver General of this Colony, to be appropriated in such Manner as this Court shall hereafter direct.

And be it further Resolved, That the said Committee be directed to have the said Schooner Appraized by three Men under Oath, and that they make return of said Appraizement to this Court, as soon as may be; and that the said Schooner be delivered to his Excellency General Washington's Order, for him to improve her as an, armed Vessel, for Defence of the Country, he giving his Receipt therefor, a Duplicate of which Receipt, said Committee are directed to lodge in the Treasurer's Office aforesaid as soon as may be.

[Endorsed] In Council, November 3, 1775: Read and concurred.