Councill Chamber Boston July 23 1777
You are hereby ordered & Directed to Receive from Lieut Collonall Sims The prisoners Taken in the Fox Frigate by Capts Manly & M'Neil, now in the Custody of Said Sims, & them Confine onboard the Prison Ship in this Harbour, &providing them with Rations, agreable to Your former Orders
Read & passed
Jn° Avery Dpy Secy
To Robt Pierpont Esqr Commissary of Prisoners
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 167, 110.
