At a meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety holden at Lebanon on the 3d day of April, A. D. 1778. 

Voted, That Capt. Richard Dickinson's¹ account incurr'd for services &c. for brig Minerva, an arm’d vessell belonging to this State lately under the command of Capt. Giles Hall, be referr’d to the Committee of Pay-Table for settlement and to draw on the Treasurer for the ballance. 

His Excellency the Governor is desired to write our Delegates in Congress relative to Bushnell's Machine,² and desire them to lay the same before Congress &c. &c. 

On motion by Ezekiel Williams, Esq^r, Deputy Commissary General of Prisoners in this State, for liberty and authority to have and obtain a guard over the prisoners of the United States about to be confined on board a prison [ship] now fitted at New London and ready to receive the prisoners on board agreeable to the orders of Congress: Resolved, that he, said commissary, be supplied and furnished with a guard to consist of one lieutenant, one sergeant, one corporal and twenty privates, for the purpose of guarding the prisoners and to be under the direction of said commissary at the expence of the United States. And in case the said men cannot be otherwise obtained, the said commissary is to make application to Samuel Abbott, Esq^r, colonel of the 20^th regiment of militia of this State, who is hereby ordered and directed, if need be, to order a detachment of as many men out of his said regiment as shall be wanting and necessary to compleat said number for the purpose aforesaid.