Voted, To allow Mr. Adam Babcock & Co., to export sixty barrels of salt beef to Rhode Island, for the use of their privateer.
Voted, To sell to Mr. Adam Babcock & Co., two of the cannon and carriages taken on board the ship Guinea Man and brought in by Capt. [Seth] Harding to New London.2
Voted, To desire Mr. [Titus] Hosmer to give orders to Mr. [Abel] Buell for 40 fire-arms to be delivered to Capt. Wm. Coit for the use of the ship Oliver Cromwell.
1. Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Public Records of the State of Connecticut... 1776-1781 (Hartford, 1894-1922), I, 53. Hereafter cited as Hoadly, ed., Connecticut State Records.
2. For the Rhode Island privateer brig Minerva owned by Babcock.
