Exeter May 20th 1775.
Sir
In Obedience to the Orders of the Congress we have Executed the Commission betrusted us & find the Gente disposed to concur in Every measure that shall Conduce to the publicke good. Inclosed Sr is their Resolve of Congress we Can add no more than giving you Acct of their Seizing a Number of Masts in Portsmouth, destin'd for the Navy their firmness Resolution & unaminity gives us great Pleasure & are Sir [&c.]2
Joseph Gerrish Ebenezer Sawyer
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 193, 218.
2. Gerrish and Sawyer were sent to New Hampshire to sound out the New Hampshire Congress upon its sentiments regarding resistance to the Crown.
