Portsmo, N.H. August 11th, 1775.
[Extract]
Sr Immediately after I received your Excellencys Letter of Yesterdays date (which was about 10 o'clock this Morn) relative to the Inhabitants of this Town fireing on Capt [Andrew] Barkley's Boat I sumoned the Council to meet at 12, but did not make a Quorum till this afternoon when the Council was Truely Informed that a Town Meeting was Immedately Notifyed & a very full Meeting of the Inhabitants appeared & regularly & Deliberately Pass'd a Vote with a large & uncommon Majority in which they disapproved the Transaction &c. your Excellency herewith hath the vote of the Meeting attested, and also the minute of Council.
1. Bouton, ed., Documents and Records of New Hampshire, VII, 388; ibid., XVIII, 672, 673.
