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Sir, Having received a Letter of which the inclosed is a Copy, from David Wooster, One who commanded a Body of Men from Connecticut, at that time encamped about eight Miles from the City of New York, I take the earliest opportunity of transmitting a Copy of the same to you it relates, with the inclosed Affadavits to the Case of a Man whom I took out of a Passage Boat, and have detained on the Charge, of the Midshipman and Boats Crew belonging to the Pinnace, for having forcibly obliged them to go above a Mile to the House of the said Wooster, who thereupon gave the Orders which he sets forth in this Letter; the Prisoner whose Name is Edd Tiley says he is an Ensign in the Connecticut Militia, raised by the Governor and Assembly of that Province, and in his Justification affirms that having endeavour'd in vain to dissuade the Mob from Seizing the Boat, that his motive for taking the Crew to his Officer was to protect them from any Injury that might be done them by the People of the Town, what followed is I believe truly stated in Woosters Account, & by the Affadavits. Wooster's Letter I did not answer. But beg leave to refer the Case to you, and to have your Order about the Man. I am Sir [&c.]