Newburyport 18th March 1776
Immediately after the date of the beforementioned Letter, Capt Hodge who was the Bearer of it, set out for to deiiver it, but inet with some of the Council who informed him that the honble Board were adjourn'd upon which he returned home ー the Committee after soine Delay procured an Agent to supply Capt [Jeremiah] Obrien & he is now nearly fitted for Sea 2 ー they wou'd still beg your Honour's Direction whether Capt Obrien shou'd depart hence without his full Complement of Men which it does not appear probable he can procure in this place P Order of the Committee Jona Jackson
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 138, 302.
2. Captain of the armed sloop Machias Liberty, formerly the British. tender Margaretta, taken by O'Brien and a sloop-full of men from Machias on June 12, 1775. See Volume 1.
