Philada Jany 16, 1777.
Gentn,
As there are some masters, mates & mariners here that have been taken in Merchant Vessels, & wish to be sent into New York, I think your Board had best send them in discharge of your promise to Capt Hamond of the Roebuck, with a passport to that purport or if you decline doing it, I will grant them a pass to Genl Putnam to be sent over by South Amboy. I have the honor to be very respectfully Gentn, [&c.]
Rob. Morris.
1. Pennsylvania Archives, 1st series, V, 190.