Portsmouth (New-Hampshire) Committee to Committee of Safety

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Committee-Hall, October 9, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: In addition to what we wrote you the 7th instant, we beg leave to mention the expediency of having a number of men at the batteries, in case the fleet mentioned in General Washington' s letter should be destined for this port, and have therefore given it in charge to the Committee appointed to wait on you, to request that a number of men, properly officered and equipped, (we think two hundred may be sufficient,) may forthwith be forwarded from the Towns not far distant from this, in order to attend at the said batteries, till the destination of the said fleet is known.

I am, by order of the Committee of Safety, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

H˙ WENTWORTH, Chairman.