Saturday Morning, 9 o'clock, 19th August, 1775
Captain Thomas Fitch appeared before the committee, and swore on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that the cargo he had on board the schooner Swallow, was not intended, nor should not be landed at any Port, except in some of the West India Islands; and that he is to proceed to Hispaniola, and from thence to Jamaica. Ordered, that the certificate produced by Captain Fitch, from Humpreys and Jewkes, be filed among the committee papers.
1. Saunders, comp., Records of North Carolina, X, 161.