[Boston] Wednesday February 12th 1777
Petition of John Pitts setting forth that his Brother William Pitts now in Nova Scotia has a permit from the Honble Council to bring his effects from thence to this State which chiefly consist of Fish which must be attended with a great Risk, praying for liberty to export the same to the French West Indies & the proceeds thereof to be imported into this State —
Ordered that his Brother William Pitts now at Barington in Nova Scotia be & he hereby is permitted to export from thence what Fish & other effects he may now have by him to the French West Indies the nett proceeds to be imported into this State in Articles of Cloathing, Naval Stores, Hemp, Duck, Salt, Molasses & the like Stores.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 20, 254, 258-59.