At a Meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety [at Lebanon] October first, 1776
Voted, That the overseers of the furnace [at Salisbury] be directed to cast a suitable proportion of four-pound shot for the cannon cast there, and that Capt. Jabez Perkins of Norwich be permitted to purchase about forty or fifty of those shot for the two cannon he is to have: provided it can be done without interrupting the casting of cannon.2
Voted, That Mr. Andrew Huntington of Norwich be permitted to purchase at the furnace at Salisbury two four pounders and six swivels with shot suitable for them; he paying four pounds per hundred weight for the cannon and the customary price for the shot and swivels.3
1. Hoadly, ed., Connecticut Records, XV, 527, 528.
2. For the Connecticut privateer sloop Nancy.
3. Purchased for the Connecticut privateer brig Ranger.
