[Exeter] Tuesday Decr 26th 1775.
Voted, That Capt. Eliphalet Ladd have leave to sail to any of the Foreign West Indies, at his own charge & risque, under such orders & restrictions as this Congress shall see fit. ー and that Phillips White Esqr, John Hurd, Esqr & Capt. Ezekiel Worthen, members of this Congress, with Nicholas Gilman Esqr & Capt. John Emery be a Committee to consult & Lay a plan of such orders & restrictions as said Ladd shall be under for that purpose, and lay the same before this Congress as soon as may be.
1. Bouton, ed., Documents and Records of New Hampshire, VII, 696.