[Philadelphia] Thursday, January 11, 1776
Resolved, That it be recommended to the convention or committee of safety of New York, to endeavour to obtain a release of Lieutenant ———— Tyley, 2 of Brigadier [David] Wooster's regiment, now confined on board the Asia man of war by exchanging for him an officer of the same rank of the British troops in our cutody.
1. Ford, ed., JCC, IV, 49-50.
2. Ensign Edward Tilley was taken prisoner by Captain George Vandeput, of H.M.S. Asia. Vice Admiral Samuel Graves referred to him as "an Ensign in the Connecticut Militia,... I have directed to be detained and carried to England, considering him as an Officer although of low rank, in Arms against his Sovereign." Graves's Conduct, I, 156, BM.
