[At a Meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety &c.] [Lebanon] Friday, 23d February 1776.
Mr. Simon Davis is present, commissioned and authorized by Gov. Cook to go to the foreign West Indies for a cargo of powder, and liberty of taking a cargo from this Colony if he can obtain leave &c., and urges the necessity of the article and the probability of success &c.&c., and on being asked &c. this committee consent to and advise his Honor to permit him to purchase and ship 2000 lb. cheese, 2000 do. hog's lard, 60 barrels pork, and 30 barrels of beef, in this Colony, for the purpose aforesaid.
Took into consideration the affair of appointing captain and other officers for the brig Defence now lying at New Haven, and talked largely upon it; and appointed Seth Harding to be Captain of said brig Defence, and concluded upon the others almost, but deferred till next day the appointment.
And appointed Jehiel Tinker Captain of the row-galley now building at East Haddam.
1. Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut . . . (Hartford, 1890), XV, 243, 244. Hereafter cited as Hoadly, ed., Connecticut Records.
