Cambridge, December 6, 1775.
Sir:
Your favors of the 25th and 30th Ulto. I received, and am to inform you, that from the good Character you gave of Mr. [James] Aborn, I ordered the Agent in whose care his Vessel was, to deliver her up to him.2 There were other Circumstances too, that were favorable to Mr. Aborn and induced a belief that he was not inimical to our Cause. I am much obliged, by your kind attention to my two Letters of the 15th and 18th of Novr., and for your promise to lay the matters mention'd in the first before the General Committee and ordering the Troops, which were on Block Island, to this Camp. I am &c.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, IV, 150.
2. The sloop Phoebe, taken by Broughton and Selman on October 31, 1775, was released as not being a proper prize.
