Petition of John Codman, for gunpowder for the schooner Langdon

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State of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY:

To the honourable the Council and honourable House of Representatives, in General Court assembled:

The Petition of JOHN CODMAN, of BOSTON, humbly showeth:

That your petitioner, with several other owners of the schooner Langdon, mounting six carriage-guns and ten swivels, now fitting out to cruise against the enemies of these United States, and said schooner having every necessary equipment but the article of gunpowder, and for want of which she is unable to proceed on her cruise, your petitioner therefore humbly prays that your Honours would grant him permission to purchase five hundred weight of gunpowder out of the publick store belonging to this State, and for which he will immediately pay the money. And, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

JOHN CODMAN.