Committees of Safety of Portsmouth, Greenland, and Rye

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At a meeting of the Committees of Safety of the Towns of Portsmouth, Greenland, and Rye, concerning the examination of one John Ackerman, upon a suspicion of the said John Ackerman' s being inimical, to the liberties and privileges of this Country, suspected to be giving and receiving intelligence from the British Troops, for which purposes of inquiry the said Ackerman was sent from the Provincial Congress in Exeter, to their Committees; and after a thorough examination of the said Ackerman, Benjamin Hart and John Reise, who were represented to them by said Congress as having sent the said Ackerman into the country: It appears to the said Committees that the said Ackerman was sent into the country as aforesaid for personal safety, to give intelligence of any armed men coming to Portsmouth, as the peculiar stations of some persons gave suspicion of some design against them, and that it was for no other end that the said Ackerman was sent, as appears from their particular examination upon oath, had before us, the said Committees, and they were accordingly dismissed.

By order of the Committee for Portsmouth :

H˙ WENTWORTH, Chairman,

By order of the Committee for Greenland :

JOHN HAVEN, Chairman.

By order of the Committee for Rye:

JOSEPH PARSONS. Chairman.

Portsmouth, N˙ H˙, May 24, 1775.