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John Avery to Committee of Dartmouth

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In Council, December 9th, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: The honourable Board being apprehensive that the military stores in your town, the property of the Continental Congress, which were brought into your port by a vessel from France, are in danger, have directed me to acquaint you that if John Bradford, Esq˙, Continental agent, should direct the removal of them into some interior part of the country, that you would give him every needed assistance. The enemy being in your neighbourhood, makes it expedient that you should assist said John Bradford, Esq˙, without delay, or immediately to follow the directions he shall give you relative to their removal.

JOHN AVERY, Deputy Secretary.

To the Committee of Safety in Dartmouth.