[Boston] Friday January 17 1777
Capt Daniel Souther's Roll Commander of the Brigantine Massachusetts from the Time of Entry to the time of Discharge
Read & Allowed & Ordered that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury for Seven hundred and Seventy Six Pounds three shillings and four pence ½ in full of said Roll — and a Warrant was given and Signed by fifteen of the Council.
Petition of a number of Prisoners in Ipswich Goal
Read & Committed to Joseph Cushing and Daniel Hopkins Esqrs to consider the same & Report who reported as follows which was Read & Accepted Vizt The Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Monroe Roberts and others prisoners in Ipswich Goal give it as their Opinion that said Prisoners together with those in Salem Goal and as many others as can conveniently be conveyed in one Vessel be immediately sent to Providence in the State of Rhode Island to be exchanged for the like Number of Prisoners of the same Rank and Condition now at Halifax belonging to this State in the hands of the Enemy —
J Cushing P Order
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 20, 188, 189, 190-91.