Mr. [Josiah] Parker, from the committee to whom the petition of John Goodrich was referred, reported, that they had, according to order, had the same under their consideration, and had come to the following resolution thereupon; which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the clerk's table, where the same was again twice read, and agreed to.

Resolved, That Robert Shedden and family, mentioned in the said petition, are sufficiently provided for by a declaration of this Convention, and the repeated promises of Colonels [Robert] Howe and [William] Woodford, wherein they offered every friendly office which humanity could dictate, to the unhappy women and children on board the fleet under the command of Lord Dunmore.