Cambridge Jany 17. 1776
Sir
I am to inform you by command of his Excelly that Archibald Templeton, James Crawfurd, Joseph Douglass, James Hamilton & John Mciver, who belonged to the Ship Concord Capt Lawrie [James Lowrie], 2 have his Permission to go on board our Armed Vessells ー You will please to Observe that his Excellency would not wish that too great a Number of them should be in one Vessel ー For tho these men may be well disposed to serve us, It is only right to guard against Accidents ー I am &c
1. Washington Papers, LC.
2. The ship Concord was taken December 3, 1775, by Captain John Manley in the schooner Lee of Washington's fleet, Volume 2, 1245-47.
