Sir/
You are hereby requested to Stop the Privateer Revenge,2 and not suffer her to pass the Fort untill the Master or Commanding Officer delivers into your custody three Soldiers of my Rigement Vizt John Walker, John Callahan and whom you will please to confine in your Guardhouse untill sent for. yr mot Obt [&c.]
M: G
Balt[imore]: 8th April 1777.
1. Mordecai Gist Letter Book, NYPL.
2. Maryland privateer schooner Revenge, eight guns and thirty-five men, William Gosnold, master, Papers CC (Ships' Bonds Required for Letters of Marque and Reprisal), 196, XIII, NA.
