[Exeter] Thursday, March 14th, 1776. Voted, That a Committee be chosen to join a Committee of the Honble Board to confer upon the Expediency of joining with the Massachusetts Colony in granting a Bounty unto the Privateers belonging to this & the Mass. Colony, that may take any of our Enemies Ships of Warr upon this coast and that Capt. [Pierce] Long, Mr. John Bell and Major [Thomas] Tash be a Committee for the above mentioned purpose and make report to this house.
1. Bouton, ed., Documents and Records of New Hampshire, VIII, 94-96.
