purchases in this State, but is to apply to the State for money.

So many are the pressing calls for money in supplying the Army, that enough cannot be procured to answer the purpose. If the Constables on, & near Connecticut River in the County of Grafton will supply money to Mr Emery to [P. 38.] purchase the Beef you are in need of, or the Beef in lieu thereof he will be ready to furnish you, & appoint some person to superintend the business; otherwise I dont see that the money can be procured here; Although the August Tax is coming into the Treasury daily yet not fast enough to answer the Demands of the Army, as our Troops there are now wholly supply from home.

The money advanced by any of those Towns shall be allowed out of their Taxes.

Majr B. Whitcomb.

SIR

Exeter Aug 12th 1780.

As the Troops stationed at Haverhill (without doubt) will have need of a Surgeon, I must request you to take care of them in that capacity, for which you shall have a reasonable allowance from this State.

I am &c

Doct. Phelps.

[P. 39.] State of New In Committee of Safety Aug 19th, Hampshire 1780.

To Mr Jedidiah Jewett.

SIR.

The Committee engaged to provide a Horse for Gen1 Sullivan to go to Philadelphia. If either of the Horses, which are now in your hands, belonging to the State, will answer for that service, you are desired to send him to Durham to the General, as speedily as may be. If you have not one by you, that you think will answer, you are desired to

procure one as speedily, and on the best terms you can, and send him to the General.

In Committee of Safety, Aug. 19th 1780.

To Capt. Josiah Moulton & Colo S. Folsom Esq

GENTLEMEN

You are hereby appointed and directed to examine the powder in the hands of Col° Hubbard, that was made for this State, and see that it is good and merchantable to report to this Committee the Quantity that is there.

[P. 40.]

In Committee of Safety Exeter Aug 19th 1780. To Colo Joshua Wentworth

SIR

You are requested and authorized from time to time to give to the commanding officer of the Continental Troops Stationed at Portsmouth such orders & directions as you shall think proper for Guarding and Defending the Harbour, and in particular the Continental Ship building there.

In Committee of Safety Exeter Aug 19th 1780.

To the Board of War of this State.

You are directed to supply the Continental Troops stationed at Portsmouth with ammunition & such other necessaries as they may want upon an application therefor, from Noah Emery Jun' Assist. Quarter Master & Commissary and to take his receipt for the things Delivered.

In Committee of Safety Aug 23d 1780.

To Capt Eliphalet Giddings

Sir-You are most earnestly desired & requested to collect with all possible expedition, all the Beef Cattle which [P. 41.] you can, and deliver them to Mr Noah Emery Jr. Assist Commisy of Purchases to be sent forward to Camp

without one moment's delay as we have received information that the Army is in great want of those supplies.

Exeter Aug. 23d 1780.

SIR

I am honor'd with the Receipt of your favor of the 14th Inst by express.

The fatal consequences that will attend the want of supplies for the Army strike me very powerfully.

This State have proportioned the Beef Cattle to be sup plied as our Quota, to the several Towns and appointed a person to collect them to be sent forward, who has hitherto industriously attended to that business about two hundred head of Cattle are already sent forward—about sixty head are to go forward this day, & we have issued new orders for him to procure & send forward as many as he can with all expedition, which I have no doubt but he will comply with, and that we shall furnish our Quota agreeable [P. 42.] to a requisition as speedily as they can be sent forward. Every exertion in our power will be used for this

purpose.

I am &c.

Eph. Blaine Esq. Com G. P.

Exeter, Sept. 7th 1780.

SIR

I find by the Muster Masters Return that the number of men Mustered from your Regiment to join the Continental Regiments for six months falls short five men of the number required.

General Washington has urged their being sent forward with the greatest speed, which I must also request you to do without fail.

To Capt Sam1 Gilman Trustee of the State of the late Governor Wentworth's Estate

Provided any person in behalf of the heirs of Joseph Simmes late of Portsmouth deceas'd should bid off any lands belonging to said estate in Middleton in the County of Strafford at Vendue, you are desired to take security therefor & not Demand the money.

To Majr Child,—

SIR

In Committee of Safety Sept. 6th 1780.

Whereas Mr. Noah Emery Jr. is appointed by the Coms General, An Assist Coms of Purchases for this State & as he has appointed you to furnish supplies & You are therefore desired to call upon the Constables in the County of Grafton, also on the Constables in Cornish & Plainfield in the County of Cheshire, for a sum of money sufficient from time to time for supplying those troops which are stationed for the defence of the Western frontiers. And on

your accounting for what money you receive of said Constable the same shall be allowed them in part of the public Taxes.

[P. 44.] State of New In Comtee of Safety Nov 18th 1780— Hampshire

SIR

The Commissary General of Purchases has represented to Congress the miserable Situation our Army is in for want of supplies, they are now fed from day to day & scarcely a week has passed this three months that they have not been one or two days wanting either Bread or Beef, that the Magazines are now empty and that the season of the year approaching fast when it will be extremely difficult & expensive if not impracticable to transport the necessary Supplies, so that if the States do not exert themselves immediately to send forward the quota of supplies. they are called on for, there is the utmost danger that the Army will infallibly break up.

Should this be the case, the consequences are too painful for contemplation.

From this situation of our Army we are called on by Congress to take into serious consideration the present want and distrisses of the Army and by the most efficatious means and unremitted attention to send forward our supplies.

[P. 45.] The Committee therefore desire you immediately to call on every town in your district that have not furnished their full Quota of Beef Cattle-to do it without loss of time-that the whole may be forwarded with all possible speed-Inform them of the state of our Army and great danger we are in if we neglect.

The Committee flatter themselves, that there is not a single Town, who have the least regard for our own Safety and the Good of the Common Cause when they know the situation of the Army, that will hesitate a single moment about complying.

We are called on by Congress to send forward from time to time accounts of what supplies are procured and it will be painful to the Comtee to inform of a single Town neglect