Lords Commissioners, Admiralty, to Commodore Sir Peter Parker, December 27, 1775

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Inclosed we send you the names of 34 Persons taken in Arms against the King near Montreal on the 25t September last, which Persons are now Prisoners in Pendennis Castle; and whereas in pursuance of the King's Pleasure signified by Lord George Germain one of His Majestys Principal Secretaries of State in his Letter of this day we have ordered Captain [Thomas] Symonds of the Solebay to call at Falmouth in his way to Cork and receive on board the said Men, who will be delivered to him by Mr James Cleverly, one of His Majestys Messengers giving him a Receipt for them specifying their names and having taken them on board proceed with them to Cork following such Orders as he will receive from you for his further proceedings concerning them.

You are hereby required and directed upon the Solebay's joining you if the said Men are on board her to dispose of them on board the several Ships under your Command as you shall think fit giving the Captains of such Ships orders to keep the Prisoners in custody, bearing them on a Supernumerary List for Victuals and victualling them as the Ship's Companies while they are on board.

But lest the Solebay which is detained at Plymouth for [want of] a Wind only shall have sailed before the Orders to her Captain can reach him, you are to order the Captain of one of the Frigates under your Command at Portsmouth to call at Falmouth, and in case he shall find the Prisoners then in Pendennis Castle to take them on board and follow the directions contained in the aforementioned Order to Captain Symonds.

When the Ships having the said Prisoners on board shall arrive on the Coast of North America, You are to take the first opportunity that offers of a Ship going to Boston and send them in her ordering her Captain to deliver them to Major General [William] Howe with the Letter from Lord George Germain which is herewith inclosed. Given &c the 27t December 1775.

J: Buller Palmerston H: Palliser

[Endorsed] By Haysom the Messenger 28 Decemr at 2 O'Clock in the Morning A M.

[Enclosure]

List of the Rebel Prisoners put on board the Ship Adamant, Henry Wilson Master Quebec 9t Novemr 1775

Names	Places of abode	Companies	Names of the Generals and Colonels
Taken near Montreal
25 Septemr 1775.
Colo Ethen Allen			General Schuyler
Roger Moore	Shannon	Captain Bucks	General Montgomery
Samuel Lewis	Do	Major Ailmers	Colonel Hinman
Levi Barnham	Norfolk	Capt Watson's	General Worster
Peter Noble	Sheffield	Do	Colonel Vanshuick
William Gray	Shannon	Majr Ailmers	Colonel Waterbury
Ebenezer Mack	Norfolk	Capt Watsons
Ethereel Hower	New Hartford	Capt Griswells
Barney Cann	Ireland	Capt Benedicts
Zacha Brinsmaid	Bethlam	Majr Hillmans
Levi Manson	Wallanford	Capt Douglas's
Preston Denlon	Hampsted	Capt Grahams
Wm Drinkwater	New Milford	Capt Stars
Jonathan Mays	Gosham	Captain Star's
David Glass	Shannon	Majr Hillmans
Adonizah Mexom	Do	Do
John Gray	Narawaak	Capt Fishers
Jean Jac Bourquin	Switzerland	Capt Motts
Charles Stuart	Stamford	Capt Watson's
Serjt Amos Green,	taken by	Major Le Maistre
John Venamay	taken by	Colonel Maclean
Canadians taken 25 September 1775
Michael Gautier	St Denis
Louis Trudeau	Do
Louis Roche	Longuiel
Antoine Bellisle	St Charles
Augustin Mayotte	Bellaisle
Francois Livernois	Do
Pierre La Roche	Do
Alexis Pluse	St ours
Fras, St Laurent	St Jean Deschaillons
Pierre Trichet	St Denis
Jean La Marche	Chambly