Treasury of this Colony, to the said Captain John Stevens, (in full discharge of the said Pay-Roll,*) for the use of the several persons named therein; he having given bond, with sufficient surety, to the satisfaction of this House, for the faithful payment of the several persons named therein.

In. Council, August 3, 1775: Read and concurred.

An Account of Dr. Ebenezcr Marvin, for sundry articles supplied and services done Colonel Benedict Arnold, with a Petition annexed, was read, and committed to the Committee appointed to consider Colonel Arnold’s Accounts.

A Petition from the Committee of the Town of Camden,† representing the distressed situation of the Inhabitants, from the scarcity of Provisions, and praying relief, was read, and committed to Mr. Davis of Edgecomb, Mr. Davis of Barnstable, Captain Parker, Mr. Woodbridge, and Major Johnson.

The Committee on Accounts reported a Resolve for payment of the Account of Captain John Stevens, (for twenty-one Pounds, fifteen Shillings,) which was accepted, and sent up for concurrence.

The Committee on Accounts reported a Resolve for the payment of Captain Wright’s Muster-Roll and Account.

Resolved, That there be paid to Capt. Samuel Wright, out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, the sum of one hundred and thirty-five Pounds, twelve Shillings, and two Pence half-penny, in full discharge of his Pay-Roll, in Colonel Arnold’s Regiment, for the use of the several persons named therein; he having given bonds, with sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of this House, faithfully to apply the same to that use: the Blankets charged there-in having been first deducted, and the sum paid him by Col. Arnold being also deducted, one hundred and thirty-five Pounds, thirteen Shillings, and two Pence half-penny, balance due. And also the further sum of four Pounds, fifteen Shillings, and eleven Pence, being the expenses of marching his men to Ticonderoga, St. John’s, &c.

The Report was read and accepted.

In Council, August 3, 1775: Read and concurred.

Benjamin White, Esq., brought down a Report of the Committee appointed to consider what is proper to be done with regard to appointing Apothecaries for the Medical Store in Watertown, &c., viz:

“In Council, August 3, 1775.

“The Committee appointed by both Houses to consider what is proper to be done with regard to appointing Apothecaries for the Medical Store at Watertown, &c., beg leave to report:

“That the Medical Store in Watertown be continued where it now is, and that Mr. Andrew Craigie, appointed by the late Congress Apothecary to the Colony, be directed to take the care thereof, and prepare the necessary compositions; and that Mr. James Miller Church be appointed Assistant Apothecary to said Store, to put up and distribute said Medicines, agreeable to the orders of the Committee appointed by the late Congress to take care of the Medical Stores; and this Committee would further recommend, that an establishment be made for said Apothecary and Assistant Apothecary.”

Read and concurred.

A new draught of a Resolve for the emission of Bills of Credit was read and passed, and ordered to lie on the table.

The Committee on Accounts and Muster-Roils reported a Resolve for the payment of Captain Isaac Matthews’s Muster-Roll, (thirty-nine Pounds, nineteen Shillings and one Penny,) and Account, (three Pounds,) which was read and accepted, and sent up for concurrence.

In Council, August 3, 1775: Read and concurred.

The Committee on Colonel Arnold’s Account were directed to sit forthwith, and not to report in favour of any persons who may have orders from said Arnold, until they have reported upon Colonel Arnold’s Account; and not to report on his Account until he has exhibited his whole account of the debt he has incurred on account of charges for the service of the Colony.

The Committee appointed to consider the Petition from Nantucket reported.

The Report was ordered to lie on the table.

A Letter from the Committee of Inspection of the Town of Dartmouth, informing the Court that Mr. Francis Botch is fitting out a number of Ships for Falkland Islands, was read, and committed to Captain Carpenter, Mr. Devens, Mr. Rice of Hardwick, Mr. Rice of Pownal-borough, and Captain Batchelder.

Resolved, That the Receiver-General be, and hereby is directed to keep an exact and particular account of all Moneys paid by him to the Officers of the Army.

Resolved, That the establishment for an Apothecary be seven Pounds ten Shillings per month, and for an Assistant Apothecary four Pounds per month.

In Council, August 4, 1775: Read and concurred.

Ordered, That Major Hawley, Major Johnson, and Colonel Orne, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to take the deposition of Captain Matthews, relative to the treatment the Committee sent by the late Congress to Ticonderoga and Crown Point received there; and that Colonel Arnold, with such of the said Committee of Congress as are now in Town, be notified of the lime and place for the taking said deposition, that they may attend if they see proper.

Colonel Davis was appointed a Monitor, in the room of Mr. Dix.

Then the House adjourned till tomorrow morning, eight o’clock.

Friday, August 4, 1775.

On a motion made, that a Bill be brought in for making the pay of the Representatives of each Town a general publick charge,

Resolved, That four o’clock in the afternoon be assigned for the consideration thereof.

Resolved, That sixteen Pounds five Shillings be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony to Colonel Jacob Bailey, in full for his service and the service of an Indian Chief, one Lewis Tataranco, of the Caughnawaga Tribe, which Indian was employed by said Bailey thirtynine

*To the Honourable His Majesty’s Council and House of Representa. tives of the Colony of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, in General Court assembled, JULY, 1775:

Most humbly sheweth that he, John Stevens, served as a Captain under Colonel Benedict Arnold, at the taking of the Fortresses of Ticonderoga, &c., at the westward; that lately the said Colonel Arnold has disbanded his Regiment, and directed your petitioner to present the Roll of his Company to this honourable Court for their acceptance and payment, agreeable to the order of the Committee appointed by the late honourable Provincial Congress to repair to those posts. The following Roll exhibits the service and pay of said Company; which your petitioner humbly prays may be allowed and paid, together with his other disbursements. And, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.

JOHN STEVENS.

A Roll of Captain JOHN STEVENS’S Company, in Colonel ARNOLD’S Regiment, in the MASSACHUSETT’S service, for the Reduction of TICONDEROGA, CROWN POINT, &c.:

John Stevens, Captain, enlisted May 1st; Peter Castle, Lieutenant, Eliphalet Castle and Nathaniel Stevens, Sergeants, John Metlengo and onas Putnam, Corporals, Efforon Putnam, Edmund Frost, Samuel Morrison, Nathaniel Burr, William Clark, Peter Griffin, David Towsey, Hugh Morrison, Ephraim Eayres, James Wells, James Bolton, and Peleg Hart, enlisted May 10th; Gershom Flagg, Amos Cook, Alexander Kidd, John Walker, John Bolton, Ebenezer Newell, Daniel Beman, John Cowin, Andrew English, John McDonald, William Sutherland, Asaph Putnam, John Varnwn, and Robert Shannon, enlisted May 17th.

†To the Honourable the Provincial Congress of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. The humble Petition of the Town of CAMDEN, in PENOBSCOT-BAY:

We, the Committee appointed by the inhabitants of this Town, do now despatch, on their Behalf, the bearer, to inform you of the arrival of a Fleet at Long-Island, in this Bay, on the purpose of exchanging Provisions For Cord Wood, who have advised us of their peaceable intentions by letter, and have conveyed to us a copy of a certificate from the Gentlemen Selectmen of the Town of Boston, recommending to the inhabitants of these parts to afford them all proper assistance. Though our necessities are very great, owing to the scarcity of Provisions, yet we should esteem it highly prejudicial to the community to open such an intercourse with them, contrary to the Resolves of your House. We, your humble petitioners, do therefore most earnestly pray for your advice in so important a matter to us, (we being but a new settlement, depending on our Cord Wood till our farms are somewhat brought to,) whether you will be pleased to afford us any assistance, with respect to Provisrons, of allow us to exchange the said Wood for Provisions, to answer our present necessities,