At a Meeting of the Committee of Inspection held at Norwich first of May 1775
Unanimously Voted by Said Committee that at this Alarming and Critical Scituation of affairs in America, the need and Necessity in all probibility we shall have of what Molasses we now have in the Colony, we therefore think it expedient that none of that Comodity be Transported to any other Colony; and we do advise that no person send any from This Town for the above Reasonー
We do also Advise for the above Reason that No Sugar be Ship'd to any other Colony from this Townー
Certify'd by me
Dudley Woodbridge Clerk2
1. W. G. Lane Collection, YUL.
2. Woodbridge later moved to Marietta, Ohio, became one of the prominent citizens of the Northwest Territory, and was counsel for Blennerhassett at his treason trial in Richmond.
