The most humble Petition of Ichabod Jones late of Boston now a Prisoner in the gaol in Northampton in the county of Hampshire Sheweth That he was about the 22d of August last comitted to the said gaol by virtue of a warrant of comittment from your Honours upon a charge of Offences supposed to have been comitted by your Petitioner whereof you are Not unacquainted ー and Your Petitioner beggs leave to Suggest that however criminal he May have been, Yet he perswaded himself that it is Not the intent of your honours that previous to his trial Your Petitioner should undergo any More affliction or Misery than is Absolutely Necessary in order to put it out of his Power (if he is an ill disposed person) to practice against his country and so to detain him that he may be forthcoming when he Shall be demanded to take such trial as the Laws of the land do or shall require ー
Your Petitioner is an old man has been almost two months in close Confinement is Subject to Rheumatick and gouty disorders and as the season grows colder he finds them coming fast on him and the close confinement he is in (if long continud) will not only injure his health but endanger his life ー he is ready in case your Honours would so far enlarge him as to indulge him the liberty of the Gaolers house and the prison yard to find any Security which your Honours Shall order that he will not go out of the limits of the prison yard, which is the favour and indulgence which he earnestly Supplicates your Honours to grant and order for him And he as in duty bound will ever pray ー
October 9th 1775
[Endorsed]
Octor 14th 1775 Read & by the major Part of the Council ordered, that the Prayer of the within Petition, be granted, on Condition the said Jones shall give Bond with one sufficient Surety, to the amount of two thousand Pounds, payable to the Colony Treasurer, to the use of the Colony, conditioned that the said Jones shall be forth coming when call'd upon by any future Order of this Council ー And that the Sheriff of the County of Hampshire be impowered to take the said Bond & transmit it to the Treasurer's Office.
Perez Morton Depy Secy
