Received the Above Prisoners from On Board the Grand Duke of Russia, At Road Island, Janr 17th 1777 On Board the Nancy Cartel.
John Ayres
1. Council of War Papers, Exchange of Prisoners and Miscellaneous Papers, 1775-1781, R. I. Arch.
2. The schooner was the Connection, not the Conception. She was bound from Boston for Baltimore and taken by H.M.S. Perseus, Howe's Prize List, March 31, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 1/487.