[Exeter] Janry 4th 1776
Voted that Capt Long, Capt Wait & Ichabod Rawlins, Esqr be a Committee to Lay a plan for orders & Restrictions to be Laid on Capt Eliphalett Ladd before he sail to the Foreign West Indias according to a Vote of the 26th December last and lay such plan before this Congress. 2
1. Bouton, ed., Documents and Records of New Hampshire, VII, 708.
2. A different committee had been appointed on December 26, 1775 for the same purpose. It evidently had not complied with the directions given at that time. Ladd was sailing at his own risk, and presumably would return with powder and arms.
