To the Cou[nc]ell of the Colony of the Massachusetts bay
This May Certify that Isaac Smith Esqr had a vessell (Eb[e]nezer Nickerson Master) Called the Sallee arrived at Barnstable from St Eustatia with three hundred and Fifty Weight of Gun Powder which was Landed there as I am Informed by Letter
your Honours [&c.]
Joseph Otis
Watertown Janry 20th 1776
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 194,213.
