[Exeter] Wens'day June 7th [1775]
The following Resolve was passed the first of June but omitted to be entered then.
Resolved, That the Committee of Portsmouth together with Capt. Ezekiel Worthen be desired to provide a number of Fascines and also to procure propper Carriages for those guns removed from Jerry's Point, and also such other materials, as they may think necessary for erecting a Battery to hinder the passage of ships up to the Town, and also, that they Endeavour (if it can be done with secresy & safety) to get what shot may be at the Fort at New Castle, and that all those matters be done with the utmost secresy the Business will allow of, And then determine upon some suitable place for a Battery where the materials when completed may suddenly be removed to.
1. Bouton, ed., Documents and Records of New Hampshire, VII, 506.