In the House of Representatives [Portsmouth] Monday September 22d 1777.
Voted. That John Paul Jones Esqr Captain of the Continental Ship Ranger have liberty to inlist from the Matross Company's in the Batteries in Piscataqua Harbour a number of Men not exceeding twenty — Sent up by Saml Little Esqr2
1. New Hampshire House of Representatives Journal, 1776-1778, 203, N.H.Arch.
2. The Council concurred the next day, setting the number at exactly twenty, Council Records, Council Book VII, 1776-1778, 224, N.H.Arch.
