[Boston]
Monday, March 2, 1778.
Jabez Fisher, Esq; brought down a Report of the Committee of both Houses on the Letter from General Putnam, viz.
"That they were informed by General Putnam,1 that the United States had Occasion for forty Pieces of Cannon from 18 to 32 Pounders—thirty Cables of about 13 Inches, and thirty Anchors weighing about ten Hundred each, for the obstructing and keeping Possession of North River—and that he now applied to this State to furnish him with as many of the Articles aforesaid as they could well spare."
Read and thereupon Ordered, That Mr. Wendell,2 Mr. Gray3 and Col. White4 be a Committee to enquire what of the above-mentioned Articles can be procured.
A Journal of the Honorable Howe of Representatives, [January 7 to March 13, 1778], (Boston, 1777 [1778]), 198.
1. Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam commanded Continental Army forces in the Hudson River Highlands.
2. Oliver Wendell of Boston.
3. Ellis Gray of Boston.
4. Col. Ebenezer White of Rochester, Plymouth County.