Agreeable to the within Appointment² we waited on Capt Wallace who has given full assurance and his promise that on the Removall of the Armd Force now on the Island, that He will permit the Ferry Boats Market Boats & wood Vessells for the supply of the Town to pass and that He will not take any more Stock of[f] the Island of Rhode Island, on His receiving from the Town unmolested the Supplys of Beef Beer &c necessarys for his Ships and He further Promises that in case He shoud be under the Disagreable necessity hereafter through any Breach of the Present agreement, that He will not fire upon the Town without giving the Inhabitants sufficient warning, although He has positive Instructions to destroy any Town when any armed force appears Therefore the safety of the Town Depends on their withdrawing from it

Dated on board the Rose

Octor 13. 1775