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respectable body have taken under him consideration
your petitioners by leave to represent to the Convention
that the people of this place raise very large quan
tities of Indian Corn which is generally unsold
late in the summer and altho we believe then is
not so much now on hand as is usual at this
season yet there are such quantities as to ruin
many persons who have made contracts respecting
the same if the port are immediately stopped
your petitioners therefore in behalf of themselves &
the other inhabitants of this place pray that the
exports to the West Indies may be kept open [till?]
the 10th of September next and we beg leave to
apease the convention that the greatest case will
be taken by this Comittee to prevent the exportation
of an provisions to the northward when there may be
the least danger of their falling into the hands
of the army and that it will be our constant study
to enforce within the limits of our appointment
those regulations of the general Congress or Convention of
this Colony which are now entered into or may hereafter
be adopted in support of the Common Cause
Northampton County 29th July 1775
John Bowdoin Chairman
Issac Avery
John Respus
John Burton
John Kendall
Michl [Michael] Christian
John S. Harmanson
John Harmanson Sr.
Geo' Savage
Nathaniel L. Savage
Griffin Stith
John Wilkins [illegible]
William Ronald