Sandwich May 2d 1775
Sir
I received your Letter in closing the Resolve of the Committee of Safety as to securing the Boats &c.2 I have secured all the Boats in this part of the County that will be of service to the Colony and have given Colo Cobb orders to secure those below which I presume is by this Time done we hauld the Boats ashore & hid them in swampy Land & Woods which was all that could be done here any further orders from the Honble Committee in the Cause of God and my Country I am ready to Execute with the greatest pleasure & am sir your [&c.]
Nathl Freeman
Doctr Church3
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 193, 126, 127.
2. Resolve of April 25, 1775.
3. Church, at that time a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, turned traitor, was caught, condemned, imprisoned in Connecticut, later released to go into Boston, and was lost at sea on a vessel sailing from Boston early in 1776.