The Board of War request That the Sloop Reprisal, Nathl Carver Master, burthen about Seventy Tons, carrying four Guns 4 pounders, Six Swivels, One hundred weight of powder, and navigated with Sixteen Men, bound from Plymouth to France & back, be furnished with a Letter of Marque. ー By Order of the Board
Sam Phps Savage Prest
[Endorsed] In Council March 26t 1777
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 166, 332.