At a special meeting of the Council of Safety [at Savannah] on Sunday, Dec. 24th, 1775.
The President laid before the Board a letter from John Wereat, Esq., informing that several vessels loading with lumber up Sapelo and other rivers at the southward, with palpable intention of supplying the West India markets, contrary to the restraints of Congress. The Board taking the said letter into consideration, resolved that the committees from the southern parishes be required to take effectual measures to prevent such wicked and daring attempts. Ordered, that the men employed and the necessary charges and expenses attending the same be paid by the public. Ordered, that the President do write to the southern parishes, acquainting them therewith.
*Royalist.
1. Allen D. Candler, comp., The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia (Atlanta, 1908), I, 81. Hereafter cited as Candler, comp., Georgia Records.
