Gave order on Pay-Table for Wm. Griswold for £125 12, as follows, viz:

Please to draw on the Treasurer for the sum of £125 12 0, in favor of Capt. Wm. Griswold, for and in payment of the hire of the brig Minerva, employed the last season as an armed vessel in the service and for the defence of the seacoasts of this Colony, under the command of Capt. Giles Hall, being the sum and amount of said hire according to charter party, as the account has been settled and allowed by the Governor and Council of Safety, March, A.D. 1776.

To the gentlemen Committee of Pay-Table, Hartford.

N.B. I was to have carried it to him in March, going to Philadelphia, therefore dated it in March.