[New York] Wednesday morning, June 12, 1776.
Mr. [William] Mercier attended, with a manifest of the cargoes of several vessels now landing in this Port.2
1. New York Provincial Congress, I, 491.
2. These manifests were printed in Force, comp., American Archives, 4th, VI, 1397, from documents later destroyed in the New York State Library fire at Albany. They are as follows: Manifest of the cargo of Sloop Resolution, John Hathaway Master, for Providence, viz: 40 bbls. Oil; 10 bbls. of Beef; 57 bbls.Flour; 3 bbls.pickled Codfish; 9 kegs butter Biscuit; 39 bush. Wheat; 85 lbs.Butter. City of New-York: John Hathaway, Master of Sloop Resolution, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that the above manifest is a just and true account of all the cargo he hath or will take on board said vessel from this city in this his intended voyage to Providence. And further saith not.
John Hathaway
Sworn this 11th June, 1776, before me:
Andrew Gautier, Justice.
Manifest of cargo on board Ship Betsy and Polly, viz: 179 bbls. Beef; 219 bbls. Pork; 200 Shakes; 136 tierces, 49 bbls, and 12 hhds. Bread; 19 bbls. and tierces Hams; 405 bbls. Flour; 120 kegs of Bread; 28 boxes sperm Candles; 150 Boards.
John Hylton.
The above sworn to before me this 11th day of June, 1776:
Francis Filkin, Alderman.