[Providence] Wednesday Evening 5th June 1776
Meeting in being according to adjournment ー
Voted. That Sixty Pounds LMy be paid Mr Wm Jennison Lieut of Marines2 in Order to Inlist his Complement of Men on his procuring sufficient Suerties. ー
1. Journal R.I. Frigates, RIHS.
2. William Jennison's Journal reads: "In April I went to Providence & offered myself to engage in the Service ー A board then sitting to appoint Officers for the Warren F[ri]gate ー A[s] I had been in the Cadet Company under Capt Nightingale, they gave me Instructions & Money to recruit Marines for the Warren Capt [John Burroughs] Hopkins ー May & part of June was Employed in recuiting Men for the Service, " LC.
