Francis Lewis, Esqr. came into the Committee of Safety and informed them that the schooner Success, Jonathan Bowne, master, was laded by his order on Continental account, and requested a permit for her to sail:

Thereupon, a certificate [was] given to Col. Alexander McDougall in the words following, to wit:

The schooner Success, whereof Jonathan Bowne is master, being laded on Continental account, by order and under the direction of some of the Continental Delegates, is hereby permitted to sail to sea.

Die Jovis, 4 ho.P.M. Jany. 25th, 1776.

The Committee being of opinion that prudence and care of this Colony and of the capital and inhabitants thereof requires that a proper person be kept at the Hook, to keep a look out if any fleet, or any transports or ships of war should be approaching this Colony; and having, on considering that matter yesterday, thought it best, to prevent jealousy among the pilots, and to give different persons among them a chance of earning a subsistence in the present times of difficulty, agreed to employ Samuel Isleton, (who was recommended for that purpose,) in the place of Wm. Dobbs. Samuel Isleton attending, by request, received his instructions. He is directed to take the pilotboat and oars lately purchased by this Committee, and 4 men to row her, and proceed to the Hook, and stay there and diligently look out for one week, if no fleet or transports or ships of war appear sooner; if any appear he is to give the most immediate notice to this Committee. Samuel Isleton is to have 10s. per day; and James Burns, Robert Bennet, John Besly and William Mullinger, his oarsmen, are to have 8s. per day, each, and they are to find themselves all necessaries and bear their own expenses.