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Roll, and ordered the same to be paid—forty Pounds thirteen Shillings and ten Pence half-penny.
Adjourned to Monday next, at Exeter.
Saturday, December 2, 1775.
In consequence of a Letter from General Sullivan, by express, informing of the withdrawing of the Connecticut Troops from the lines at Cambridge, and desiring a number of Troops to be sent from this Colony, to supply their place, the Committee met at Portsmouth, on the 2d day of December, and gave orders to the following gentlemen each to inlist a Company of sixty-one able-bodied men, including three Sergeants and three Corporals, well provided with Arms and Blankets, to serve in the Continental Army under the command of General Washington, until the 15th January next, unless sooner discharged, and, as soon as inlisted, to march them immediately to join General Sullivan's Brigade, viz: Captains David Place, Henry Elkins, Daniel Runnels, John Waldron, Alpheus Chesley, David Copy, Moses Baker, Mark Wiggin, Joseph Parsons, Moses Yeaton, Elijah Denbo, Jacob Webster, Nathaniel Odiorne, Peter Coffin, Stephen Clark, and Green-leaf Clark.
Form of the Orders:
COLONY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In Committee of Safety, December 2, 1775.
To Captain. . . . ., Greeting:
You are hereby authorized immediately to inlist a Company, to consist of sixty-one able-bodied, effective men, including three Sergeants and three Corporals, well accoutred with arms and provided with blankets, to serve in the Continental Army under the command of his Excellency General Washington, until the fifteenth day of January next, unless sooner dismissed; and you are hereby informed that you will have liberty to nominate two persons to serve as Subalterns in said Company under you, who will be commissioned accordingly, if approved by this Committee. And you are to march the said Company, when inlisted, seasonably, so as to join General Sullivan's Brigade, on Winter-Hill, at or before the 10th day of December, instant; and you may assure the said Company that their pay, which will be the same as the other Continental troops, will commence the day they march; and that those who supply themselves with provisions on their march shall receive the price of their rations in cash; and that they will be paid off the moment they are dismissed, and also be paid for their return home.
By order of the Committee:
WILLIAM WHIPPLE, Chairman pro tem.
Sunday, December 3, 1775.
Wrote to Samuel Hobart, Esquire; sent him a copy of General Sullivan's Letter, and six blank Inlisting Orders, desiring him to give them to suitable persons towards and in the County of Hillsborough.
Wrote to Colonel Timothy Walker; sent him blank Orders for three Captains.
Delivered Orders for one Captain to General Folsom, to De by him given to such person as he should judge proper.
Sent Inlisting Orders to Captain James Hill, of New-market, and to Major Thomas Bartlett, of Nottingham.
Delivered like Orders, for one Captain, to Col. Evans, to be by him disposed of.
Wrote Colonel David Gilman, and endorsed like Orders for three Captains, to be by him disposed of.
With each of the afore-mentioned Orders were likewise delivered and sent Forms of Inlistments.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay Captain Moses Baker thirty-five Pounds, to be by him accounted for.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay George Gains, Quartermaster, one hundred Pounds, to be by him accounted for.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay William Parker three hundred Pounds, for payment of Troops in this Colony's service.
Ordered Captain Moses Baker to dismiss his Company.
Examined and allowed Captain David Copp's Pay-Roll of his Company, and ordered it to be paid, being fifty-two Pounds three Shillings.
Do. Captain Stephen Hodgdon's—seventy-five Pounds fifteen Shillings eight Pence.
Do. Captain David Place's—seventy-two Pounds one Shilling ten Pence.
Do. Captain Alpheus Chesley's—thirty-four Pounds nine Shillings five Pence.
Do. Captain Mark Wiggin's—thirty-one Pounds four Shillings.
Do. Captain Hall Jackson's Field Artillery Company—thirty-nine Pounds thirteen Shillings three Pence.
Do. Captain Stephen Hodgdon's Company—fifty-one Pounds three Shillings three Pence.
Do. Captain John Hill's—fifty-nine Pounds seventeen Shillings seven Pence.
Do. Captain John Taylor's—thirty-eight Pounds thirteen Shillings three Pence.
Do. Captain James Hill's—sixty-four Pounds eighteen Shillings one Penny.
Do. Captain Moses Yeaton's five day Roll—fourteen Pounds eighteen Shillings eight Pence.
Do. his fifteen day Roll—forty-six Pounds twelve Shillings.
Do. Captain Joseph Parsons's—sixty-one Pounds five Shillings two Pence.
Do. Captain Henry Elkins's—sixty Pounds nineteen Shillings six Pence.
Do. Captain Eliphalet Daniels's overplus men.
Monday, December 4, 1775.
Received a Letter from General Sullivan.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay Capt. Stephen Clark sixty-five Pounds, to be by him accounted for.
Gave liberty for all the Soldiers in this Colony's service to inlist in the Continental service.
Tuesday, December 5, 1775.
Ordered William Parker to pay Captain David Copp three Pounds, out of the money in his hands.
Ordered William Parker to pay Lieutenant Andrew Gilman forty Shillings, out of the money in his hands, in part of wages due to him.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay Captain Peter Coffin sixty-five Pounds, for him to be accountable, out of his Company's wages.
Wrote to General Sullivan, per post.
Received a Letter from him.
Received a Petition from William Hart.
Ordered that it lie.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay William Parker two hundred Pounds, for payment of Troops in New-Hampshire service.
Examined and allowed Captain John Waldron's Pay-Roll of his Company, and ordered it to be paid, being thirty-nine Pounds eleven Shillings four Pence.
Do. Captain Thomas Berry's—twenty Pounds five Shillings six Pence.
Do. Captain Nathaniel Hobb's—forty-two Pounds eight Shillings eleven Pence.
Do. Captain Nicholas Rollings's—twenty-one Pounds ten Shillings two Pence.
Wednesday, December 6, 1775.
Gave Colonel Wingate orders respecting the Soldiers in this Colony's service.
Thursday, December 7, 1775.
Wrote to General Folsom, to deliver the Guns at Esquire Rice's to Captain Alpheus Chesley, taking his receipt for the same.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay Nathaniel Folsom, Jun., eight Pounds four Shillings and eleven Pence—this Committee's expense.
Ordered Receiver-General to pay William Parker two hundred Pounds, for payment of Troops in Colony service.
Adjourned to Exeter, to meet on the 11th current.
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