[Watertown] Tuesday, July 11, 1775, Afternoon
Ordered, That Colonel [Benjamin] Lincoln bring in a Resolve determining what is best to be done with the Whale-Boats.
Colonel Lincoln, agreeable to appointment, brought in the following Resolve relative to Whale-Boats, which was accepted.
Whereas, the Congress some time past directed and empowered, in the absence of Captain Joshua Davis, Captain Edmund Soper to take charge of a number of Whale-Boats, then lying in the River at Braintree, purchased by said Davis for the use of the Colony; and as he hath procured and brought there a very considerable number more, which require his care and inspection, and as one person is sufficient to have the care of the whole of them; therefore,
Resolved, That as Capt. Davis is now returned, Capt. Edmund Soper be excused from any care of said Boats, until further orders; that he give information to said Davis where they are lodged; and if he hath delivered any of them to the order of the officers in the Army, to whom they were delivered, in order to his receiving them into his possession, as soon as the publick service will admit of it.