Capt. Uriah Hayden, present, being sent for &c. to conclude about building the ship for defence &c., and have and do agree, that he shall and he undertakes to build said ship, to be 80 feet keel, 27 feet beam, and 12 feet hold, to have 6s. per day for and finding himself, and that he shall employ good and faithful workmen and on the best and. easiest terms he possibly can, and discharge every part of the duty with the greatest fidelity, care and dispatch, and is to advise and consult Cap. [Seth J Harding who is sent for that purpose, or any other person or persons who may be appointed by this Board, and to attend every direction he may receive from the Governor and this Council about the moulding and manner of building and finishing the same, and keep and render careful and exact accounts of his doings in the premises.

The foregoing agreed to,

Copy given him of the same.

Agreed with Benja. Williams, Esqr, of Saybrook, that he be employed to do and work all the necessary iron-work for the warship Capt Hayden is employed to build, that is to say, all the smith work larger and smaller as low and including deck nails, and the same deliver at said Hayden's ship-yard, at the rate of twenty shillings per hundred weight, and to do the same in good and workmanlike manner, and in good and due season as fast [as] it shall be wanted for its proper use and uses, and to do and perform the whole in good, faithful and upright manner, to be done and wrought of iron to be found and delivered at his shop at or near said yard.

Said Williams agrees to the above,

Signed Benjⁿ Williams.

Copy given him.

On further consideration voted, that the dead rising for the row-gallies ordered to be built by Capts. [Jonathan] Lester and [Job] Winslow be about 7 inches instead of four as before agreed.