DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, &c.

CORRESPONDENCE, MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, PROCEEDINGS OF COMMITTEES, &c.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Monday, September 11, 1775.

Upon request of Moses Baker and others, in behalf of the Town of Newmarket, agreed to suspend the making out of a Commission for Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Militia in this Colony till the next meeting of Congress, that they may have opportunity to prefer a petition against the person's being commissioned who was by Congress chosen to that office.

Tuesday, September 12, 1775.

To the Committee of Supplies:

You are desired to pay all reasonable accounts of any Town or Parish in this Colony, for supplying the several Companies in Colonel Poor's, Regiment with provisions for their march from, their respective homes, to join the Army.

By order of the Committee:

M. THORNTON, Chairman.

Ordered the Receiver-General to pay the Committee of Supplies two hundred Pounds, to be by them accounted for.

Agreed, That William Whipple, Esquire, and General Folsom, should wait on General Washington, to inquire of him concerning the Coats promised the Troops, &c.

Saturday, September 16, 1775.

Received a Message from General Washington, requiring the payment of certain wages to those New-Hampshire Troops bound to Canada, under Colonel Arnold.

Appointed Deacon Brooks to pay said Troops.

Wednesday, September 27, 1775.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay William Whipple, Esquire, one hundred and forty-two Pounds six Shillings, lawful money, to pay Captain Salter's Company one month's wages.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Daniel Fowle, Esquire, thirty-six Pounds four Shillings, the balance of his Account, this day examined and adjusted.

George King, Esquire, appointed to pay Salter's Company their first month's wages.

Wrote Colonels Reed, Poor, and Stark, to order their several Captains to take and send Rolls of their respective Companies, from the time of their inlistment to the 4th of August.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, September 27, 1775.

Captain TITUS SALTER:

You are hereby directed to take the command of the batteries on Pierce's arid Sevey's Islands, and keep a constant guard at each, with your Company, taking care to exercise them in the handling and management of cannon, and such other exercises as you shall think necessary to make them capable of doing their duty at said fortifications. You are not to suffer any vessel to pass said fortifications, up the river, without a permit from the Committee of Safety of Portsmouth, except such vessels as you are satisfied are only on a fair trade. And if any armed vessel shall attempt to pass, without such permit, you are to pre-vent the same, by firing upon and destroying such vessel, if necessary; but in all such cases, where time will admit of taking the advice of the said Committee of Portsmouth, you are to do it, and not fire on any vessel that shall come into the harbour, without their advice and consent, if you have time to obtain the same.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Committee of Supplies three hundred Pounds, to be by them accounted for.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Committee of Supplies three thousand Pounds, to be by them accounted for.

Thursday, September 28, 1775.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Deacon Brooks three hundred and forty-eight Pounds seven Shillings, the amount of the wages paid the New-Hampshire Troops in Colonel Arnolds detachment, and expenses of paying them.

In Committee of Safety, September 28, 1775.

SIR: We desire you to proceed to the Army, and there pay each non-commissioned officer and soldier, of the troops raised by this Colony, twenty-four Shillings each, to be in full for the coats promised them, excepting such as entered on duty since the 4th of August. Also, pay each man, as aforesaid, twelve shillings, who has never received a blanket, and if found by himself, provided the Selectmen of his respective Town did not take an account thereof, which you are strictly to examine into. And to each person his loss, in clothing and soldiers' accoutrements, sustained at Charlestown battle, deducting out, to such as have received a coat, the value thereof; each person producing an account of his loss, and the value thereof, under oath that they have not overrated the same, which oath you are desired to administer. And where any soldier is absent on furlough, or his place supplied by another, that the money be paid the Captain, taking his receipt therefore.

M. THORNTON, Chairman.

Colonel Timothy Walker.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, September 28, 1775.

To the Committee appointed to build Batteries to command the passage in PISCATAQUA River.

GENTLEMEN: It is thought expedient to lay a boom across the river, from Pierce's to Sevey's Island, strong enough to hinder the passage of vessels, if possible. Therefore, you are desired to take such condemned masts as you can find, most proper for the occasion, and fit a boom for the aforesaid purpose, by securing them with iron, in such manner and place as you shall judge best to answer the purpose.

Received a long Letter from General Sullivan, and wrote him a long answer.

Deacon Brooks made a return of his paying off the detachment of New-Hampshire Troops under Colonel Arnold.

Tuesday, October 10, 1775.

Received a Letter from the Committee of Portsmouth, informing of the capture of the Ship Prince George, by a sub-Committee, with a copy of General Washington's Letter to said Committee, about the cargo of said Ship.

Ordered George King, Esquire, to take charge of the cargo of the Ship Prince George, and to deliver to Samuel Cutts, Esquire, one hundred barrels of Flour, at such times