Sir

I send by Order of the Commander in Chief The Prisoners undernam'd, which The General desires you will Order to be Secured in some Inland Goal, Worcester we are told has no Prisoners of War, & there is a Secure Goal if you Approve of their being sent to it

By the enclosed from [Colonel John] Glover, I dare say you will think [with me, that John Thomer,] William Clark, William Wallis & Thomas [Gorthrop,] Seamen of the Ship Jenny, Capt. [William] Forster, ought also [to be confined ー ]

The Men [named upon this] side were Seamen, belonging to a [Ship, Brigantine and] a Sloop, taken by the Continental [armed Vessels If you] see no Material Objection to [their being discharged they] may be Dismissed upon their Arrival at Worcester; and be at Liberty to Work for their Living in the Country, or seek their Fortunes as they like. I am sir [&c.].

P.S.
William Beard ² appears to be an Impress'd Man, on board of a Man of War, at Hampton in Virginia; he may also have his Liberty at Worcester. There are Reasons, why the General [does not] think proper to discharge [him here.]

Seamen belonging to the Brigg Hanah	belonging to the Ship Jenny
John Gallard	John Morgan
Will: Middeldith	Francis Spunier
John Jenkins	Henry Baldwin
James Gray	John Waterstone
Thomas Riley	Will: Clark		attempted to get
	Thos Gothorp		on board the Man
	John Thornhill		of War off Cape
	Will:Wallace		Ann
	James Donaldson

[Endorsed]

In Council Jany 5 1776 Read & ord[ered that the] Prisoners be disposed of in the same [manner as] hinted in the foregoing Letter ー And [that a mitti]mus go to the Keeper of the Goal at W[orcester] And that a Letter be wrote to the Selectmen of [Worcester] directing them to dispose of those Prisoners [there] to be confined in the manner herein s[et forth]

Perez [Morton Dpy Secry]