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A letter being recd from Hunking Wentworth Esqr Chairman of a Committee at Portsmouth the same was read & ordered to Lay.
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted that the thanks of this Convention be given to the persons who took away and secured for the use of this Government a Quantity of Gunpowder from the Castle called William & Mary in this Province.
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted, That the thanks of this Congress be given to the party, who this day have removed Sundry Cannon from the sea-coast in this Colony to the town of Portsmouth & to Dr. Hall Jackson in particular for assisting in the matter & bringing us the Intelligence.
Date: 31 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted, That two companys, as soon as they can be properly mustered & Equipt be sent to guard the sea coast for the present.
Whereas in the course of the present disputes, it may be necessary to Import on the Risque of the Colony a Quantity of Military Stores,
Resolved, That the Commt of Supplies be and hereby are impowered & directed to import or cause to be Imported from any place...
Date: 1 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The following Resolve was passed the first of June but omitted to be entered then.
Resolved, That the Committee of Portsmouth together with Capt. Ezekiel Worthen be desired to provide a number of Fascines and also to procure propper Carriages for those guns removed from Jerry's Point, and also such other materials, as they may think necessary for erecting a Battery to hinder the passage of ships...
Date: 7 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas by and in Consequence of a Law of the Colony Considerable Sums of money have been paid by foreign Vessells Entering the Port of Piscataqua, which was by said Law to have been Appropriated for Purchasing Powder for the use of the Colony and whereas a part thereof has been lately paid by the Execution of the Testament of the late Govr Benning Wentworth to Samuel Livermore Esqr. Attorney...
Date: 7 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted, That the Committee of Safety Immediately give such Directions as they judge Necessary for Fortifying & Supplying Material, Raising Matrosses &c. for Defending Piscataqua Harbour.
Date: 24 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted, That Capt. Ezekiel Worthen Proceed Immediately to Portsmouth as an Engineer and there Take care, & have, in conjunction with the Committee of safety at Portsmouth, the oversight & Direction of Laying out & Erecting Batterys for the Defence of Piscataqua Harbour, & get the Guns fixt & mounted therein and all other Necessarys for compleating the Batterys.
Voted That Capt...
Date: 25 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted, That the Sloop [blank] in Mr. Joshua Wentworth's care, which lately arrived at Portsmouth2 Be not Permitted to Depart out of the Port of Piscataqua until further orders of the Congress.
Date: 2 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Voted, That the Port of Piscataqua & Fortresses lately built for the defence of it be supported by this Colony.
That Two hundred men be Enlisted & Employed as Matrosses or Artillery men, Including those already Enlisted & Employed for the support & Defence of the said Fortresses, for the term or space of two months, unless they or any number of them should be discharged sooner by...
Date: 7 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Voted, That the Matrosses or Artillery men be Divided into two Companys to be commanded by Capt. Titus Salter and Capt. Eliphalet Daniel.
Date: 8 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Voted, That a committee of three Persons be chosen to carry into Execution the Resolve of the Honble Continental Congress at Philadelphia, of Thursday the 26th of October last respecting Exporting to the Foreign West Indies, Provisions &c. for the Purpose of importing Arms, Ammunition, Sulphur & Saltpetre, and that Capt. Pierce Long, Samuel Cutts & Samuel Sherburne, Esqrs be the...
Date: 15 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Voted, that Capt. Pierce Long, Samuel Cutts, & Samuel Sherburne Esq: be paid out of the Treasury a sum sufficient to make up to them the Two Thousand pounds Lawful money voted them by the late Congress to Lay out in Cargoes for the Foreign West Indies to procure Arms, Ammunition &c. for this Colony.
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Voted, That Capt. Eliphalet Ladd have leave to sail to any of the Foreign West Indies, at his own charge & risque, under such orders & restrictions as this Congress shall see fit. ー and that Phillips White Esqr, John Hurd, Esqr & Capt. Ezekiel Worthen, members of this Congress, with Nicholas Gilman Esqr & Capt. John Emery be a Committee to consult & Lay a plan of such orders...
Date: 26 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Voted that Capt Long, Capt Wait & Ichabod Rawlins, Esqr be a Committee to Lay a plan for orders & Restrictions to be Laid on Capt Eliphalett Ladd before he sail to the Foreign West Indias according to a Vote of the 26th December last and lay such plan before this Congress. 2
Date: 4 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Voted. That Capt. Titus Salter & Capt. Eliphalet Daniel be appointed to go over to the Isles of Shoals and Inform all the Inhabitants there that it is the opinion of this Congress that the situation of said Islands are such that the Inhabitants are expos'd to our enemies in the Present unhappy controversie and may be obliged (by their weak Defenceless circumstances & Inability to Defend...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3