Cambridge Jany 20, 1776
Sir
I am commanded by his Excellency to Acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 8 Inst: As you from having fully inquired into matters respecting the Capture of Captain [John] Dennys vessell, 2 must be better able to determine the propriety of the same than here, he again refers it intirely to your decision, 1n full confidence that the same will be founded upon the principles of Equity & the strictest Justice ー I am &c
To Joseph Denison Esqr Chairman of the Committee &c Stonington ー
1. Washington Papers, LC.
2. The sloop Warren, from Gaspé for Nantucket, taken November 5, 1775, by Captains Nicholson Broughton and John Selman in Washington's schooners Hancock and Franklin. See Volume 2, 899-900.
