To the Keeper of the Goal at Plymouth in the County of Plymouth ー Greeting
You are hereby ordered & directed to take into your Custody, Mos[es] Wayman & Samuel Webb both of Westchester in the Colony of New York, Mariners, lately taken Prisoners in the Sloop Live-Po[i]nt, attempting to pass into Boston & to supply our Enemies there with Provisions &c and them and each of them safely keep in close confinement, till the further Order of the Council ー or they be otherwise discharged by due course of Law ー
Given under our hands, at the Council Chamber in Watertown, the 3d day of January Anno Domini 1776
By their Honors' Command
Perez Morton Dpy Secry
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 164, 230.
