and in such quantities as he may need it, to supply the Soldiers at the Batteries in Piscataqua Harbour.

Received a Letter from General Sullivan, enclosing a Petition of the Field-Officers of New-Hampshire Troops at Winter-Hill, requesting that the General may be instrusted with blank Commissions, to fill up vacancies in the Regiments there.

Wrote General Sullivan an answer to his Letter and the said Petition.

Gave Captain Robert Parker orders to inlist a Company of Matrosses, consisting of forty-four men, inclusive of himself, one Lieutenant, and two Sergeants, to guard and defend the Battery on Sevey's Island, for the term of one month, unless it should appear to the Congress, or this Committee, expedient to dismiss them sooner, and engaged them the same pay, for the time they shall be in the service, as Captain Salter's Company are to have; and that lie inlist no man but is well accoutred.

Received a Letter from General Sullivan, in answer to ours of 28th ultimo.

Wednesday, October 11, 1775.

Wrote to General Washington, relative to the above-mentioned Ship and Cargo.

Thursday, October 12, 1775.

Wrote to Messrs. Bartlett and Langdon. at the Continental Congress.

Appointed Jonathan Perkins special Express, to carry the above Letters to Timothy Walker, Esquire, at Winter-Hill.

Desired Deacon Brooks, one of the Committee of Supplies, to advance Perkins four Dollars, for his expenses.

This Committee, taking into consideration the necessity of the Regiments of Minute-Men being as speedily raised as possible, having reviewed the voles of Congress relative thereto, and found a vote for the soldiers that inlist in the Minute service to "continue till further orders of the Congress," which vote must have been a mistake of the scribe, or passed over by the Congress, through the hurry and multiplicity of the business they were engaged in when that passed, as it is very evident the design of Congress was to follow the directions of the Continental Congress: Therefore, it is now resolved by this Committee, that the said Minute-Men be inlisted for the term of four months; and that, at the end of said four months, the Officers proceed to inlist their Companies again, in the same manner as at first. And it is earnestly recommended to the persons who shall be appointed to inlist Minute-Men, to use their utmost endeavours to fill up the Companies as soon as possible; and to the Soldiers, at this important crisis, when our all is at stake, to engage in the service; and, as they will be relieved in four months, the duty will be nearly equal among all the Militia. And the following form is to be used for inlistment:

"We, the subscribers, do hereby severally inlist ourselves as Minute-Men, for the term of four months, in the Company under the command of . . . . . , in the . . . . . . Regiment of Minute-Men, in the Colony of New-Hampshire. And we hereby promise to submit ourselves to the orders and regulations of said Minute-Men, and faithfully to observe and obey such orders as we shall receive, from time to time, from our officers."

Monday, October 16, 1775.

Received a Letter from General Washington, and another from Colonel Timothy Walker, in answer to ours of the 11th instant, by Perkins, the Express; and a Letter of the General to Stephen Moylan, Esquire, at Portsmouth, which was forwarded by Mr. Morrison.

Received a Letter from Colonel Thornton, and answered by the same messenger who brought his.

Tuesday, October 17, 1775.

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

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Captain Josiah Moulton thirty Pounds, to be by him accounted for.

Wrote to the Committee at Portsmouth, concerning a Vessel addressed to Joshua Wentworth, Esquire, from Antigua, and about the inhabitants of the Isle of Shoals being supplied with the necessaries of life.

Wednesday, October 18, 1775.

Wrote General Washington, in answer to his Letter of the 15th instant.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, October 18, 1775.

SIR: You are desired to sell, at twenty shillings per hundred weight, a quantity of the flour lately put under your care, not exceeding three hundred barrels, to such persons as appear as purchasers, taking care that no person monopolize a large quantity, and, out of the money arising from the sale, pay the seamen of Ship Prince George, Richard Emms, master, the wages that shall appear due to them, agreeable to their original contract, and keep in your custody the remainder of the money, until called for by this Committee, or the Congress of this Colony.

By order of the Committee.

To George King, Esquire.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, October 13, 1775.

To the several Captains and other Officers of the Militia, in the . . . . . . Regiment in this Colony:

You are desired to notify and call together your several Companies, at such times and places as you, together with . . . . , may agree; and you are earnestly desired to use your utmost endeavours to forward the inlisting the complement of Minute-Men, out of your respective Companies. And the Selectmen and Committee of Safety in the several Towns are requested to forward the meeting of the several Companies, and inlisting and drafting the Minute-Men.

Colonel Thornton having represented to this Committee that he had been requested to attend a Conference of sundry members from the Continental Congress and sundry gentlemen from the other New-England Colonies, and that the circumstances of his family were such as he feared would prevent his attendance, and, therefore, desired some persons from this Committee should be appointed to attend the same: Therefore,

Agreed, That Colonel Weare and General Folsom be desired to repair immediately to Cambridge, to attend the said Conference in behalf of this Colony.

Monday, October 23, 1775.

On the report that a Fleet was expected to attack the Capital of the Colony, the Committee was desired to repair thither, in order to take into their consideration what was necessary immediately to be done.

Received a Letter from General Sullivan, enclosing a list of the vacancies in the several New-Hampshire Regiments, and requesting Commissions to be filled for the same.

Thursday, October 26, 1775.

Received a Letter from the Delegates at Continental Congress.

Ditto, enclosing a Resolve of Continental Congress.

Received a Letter from Colonel Moulton, accepting the office of Colonel.

Ditto from Colonel Tappan, declining ditto.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Samuel Brooks one hundred Pounds, to be accounted for.

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

Received a Letter from General Sullivan, concerning the Troops, and concerning Pierce's and Sevey's Islands, &c.

Friday, October 27, 1775.

Wrote William Knight, Esquire, and others, desiring them to appear and place Vessels in Piscataqua Harbour.

Answered Gen. Sullivan's Letter, respecting Troops, &,c.

Saturday, October 28, 1775.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Nathaniel Folsom three Pounds fourteen Shillings and nine Pence, Committee's expenses at Portsmouth.