The Petition of Isaac Collyer of Marblehead
Humbly Sheweth that your Petitioner with Sundry others Are fiting out an Armed Vessell [the Polly] on a Four Months Cruize Against our unnatural Enemies to Carry Twelve Carriage Guns and One Hundred men Nathaniel Leech Commander and as It is difficult if not Impracticable to Procure Ammunition, Beg your Honours would be Pleased to order the Commissary of this Colony to deliver your Petitioner One Thousand Pounds of Gun Powder he paying for the same and your Petitioner as In duty bound shall Ever pray &c.
Isaac Collyer
[Endorsed] Sept 9, 1776
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 181, 214 This petition is illustrative of the frequent requests for gunpowder made to the state by those who were outfitting privateers.
