New-Providence

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Friday, April 14, 1775, A. M.

The Committee appointed to take into consideration the Petition from the Plantation called New-Providence, reported; the Report was read, and accepted, and is as follows, viz:

In Provincial Congress, Concord, April 14, 1775.

Resolved, That Major Joseph Bennett be advised to pay Henry Gardner, Esquire, the full sum assessed on the Plantation of New-Providence, for the year 1774, taking a proper and suitable receipt of said Henry Gardner, for the Collector appointed by the Town of Lainsborough, to collect said sum, and that said Collector be advised to discharge the several persons proportion of said Tax in said Plantation, and collect the same.

Per order of Committee,

SIMEON DWIGHT, Chairman.