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This Incloses The Examination of One William Heath the Master of the Sloop Betsey Taken and Brought Into this Harbour the 31th of January Last By Captn Jonathan Howes & Bound from Nova Scotia to Boston to supply our Enemies and who has Been In that Imploy for a Considerable Time: he appears to me to be a Surley Enemical Fellow to this Country and he Distroyed all his Papers save the Register & shiping Papers and as I am Told that was his orders If he Was Likely to Be Taken: It is Reported that he Beat one of his foremast men so that his Life is In danger Some other of them frosen that I have had the Examination of But three of Them which I also In case they are also made to Travel as yet & so are Gone a board again to be subsisted there out of the Cargo By Captn Howes Consent untill they are able to Travel to Court or otherwise Mott & Peters Belong to this Countey and Peters has a wife & family at Salem If the Counce! Have Occasion for them they shall Be sent to them But it appears to me that they were forced Into the Service But Heath appears to me to be a Bad Man and Ought to have Good Care Taken of him my son Coll Otis has ordered him to your Han[d]s with a Proper Gaurd I am Gentm [&c.]