Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Council of Massachusetts

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Falmouth, October 19,1775.

These may certify any Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, &c˙, or any other whom it may concern, that we, the Committee of Correspondence of Falmouth, in the County of Barnstable, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, are appointed a Committee of Supplies for the Island of Nantucket, with orders to give permits to any that shall make application to us for provisions for the internal use of said Island, to be supplied through us, from any Colony or Province in North-America;those we give permits to being persons we can confide in.

BARAKIAH BASSETT, Chairman. NATHANIEL SHIVEBICK, Clerk.

A true copy of the original, taken at Shelter-Island, November 27, by me,

RET˙ MOORE, Clerk of the Spy.

These may certify to whom it may concern, that Phineas Fanning acquaints us he intends to import to this Island a quantity of provisions, which we think will be wanted for the internal consumption of the inhabitants.

JOSIAH BARKER, SHUBALL BAINARD. STEPHEN HUSSEY, RICHARD MITCHELL, Jr˙,

A true copy of the original, taken at Shelter-Island, the 27th of November, 1775, by me,

RET˙ MOORE, Clerk of the Spy.