Memorial of Thomas Cushing

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To the honourable the Council of the State of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY:

The Memorial of THOMAS CUSHING, Agent for building two Continental frigates, humbly showeth:

That your memorialist has received directions from the Marine Committee of Congress to apply to this State for powder, ball, musket-shot, and other military stores, for the Continental frigate called the Boston, commanded by Hector McNeil, which they say will be paid for or returned by the Congress; that your memorialist finds there will be wanted for the said frigate, four tons of powder, one thousand double-headed shot nine-pounders, one thousand weight of musket-ball, ten swivel blunderbusses, fifty small-arms, eighty cartouch-boxes, five hundred flints, some swivel and some partridge shot, fifty screwed-bottom powder-horns. He therefore humbly prays that your Honours would supply him with the articles before mentioned, for the use of the frigate Boston, Hector McNeil, Commander, which will either be paid for or returned by the Congress. And your memorialist, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

THOMAS CUSHING.

October 4, 1776.

In Council, October 4, 1776.

Ordered, That the Commissary-General be, and hereby is directed to supply the petitioner, Thomas Cushing, Esq˙, or his order, with four tons of Powder, out of the Powder Mills at the town of Andover, and with other articles mentioned in the Petition, as also such other Military Stores as he finds necessary for the use of the Continental Frigate called the Boston, he, the said Cushing, giving his receipt therefor.