[Watertown] Wednesday, May 3, 1775
On the application from the Committee of Safety relative to supplying Col [Benedict] Arnold with one hundred Pounds, and sundry Warlike Stores,
Ordered, That Mr. [Benjamin] Greenleaf, Mr. [Moses] Gill, and Mr. [George] Patridge, be a Committee to take said application into consideration and report.
The Committee on the application from the Committee of Safety reported. The Report was read and accepted.
Resolved, That the within request of the Committee of Safety be granted, and that the Committee of Supplies be, and they hereby are directed to furnish Colonel Benedict Arnold with ten Horses, two hundred pounds of Gunpowder, two hundred pounds of Lead Balls, and one thousand Flints, at the expence of the Colony; and that said Committee draw upon Henry Gardner, Esquire, Receiver General, for one hundred Pounds, in favour of said Arnold, and take his receipt for the whole, said Arnold to be accountable therefore to this or some other Congress or future House of Representatives.