[New York] Die Veneris, 10 HO. A.M. Jany. 19th, 1776.
The Committee taking into consideration the distress this Colony may soon be reduced to for want of canvass or some other proper materials to make tents of, and also the high probability of obtaining gunpowder at Curaçoa;
Ordered, That Mr. [Comfort] Sands, with all possible despatch on behalf of the Congress of this Colony, and by order of this Committee, do employ a proper vessel and load here with flour for Curaçoa, with proper letters and orders to procure gunpowder and ravens Duck.
1. New York Provincial Congress, I, 255, 256.