At a Meeting of the Governor and Council [Lebanon] September 9th, 1776.
Voted to give, and accordingly gave, orders to Capt. Zebadiah Smith, master of the prize schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, (now at Newport) lately taken and sent in by the armed schooner Spy, to embrace the first fair wind and weather when the coast s clear of the enemy, and proceed with said prize to N. London and up to Norwich, and take the necessary steps to procure a legal condemnation to be pass'd thereon as soon as may be.
1. Hoadly, ed., Connecticut Records, XV, 517.