The Owners of the Privateer Sloop of War the Adams (Edward Bebee) To Wit Andrew Rowland Erqr of Fairfield Samuel Broome of Wethersfield, Jeremiah Platt & the Subscriber of Hartford, request of his Excellency Jonathan Trumbill Esqr A Commission or Letters of Marque & Reprisal to Enable said Vessel to Proceed on a Cruise in order to Make Captures of British Vessels & Cargoes —

The aforesaid Sloop is about Ninety Eight Tons; Mounts Fourteen Carriage Guns, Ten Fours & Fout Three Pounders; Navigated by Eighty Men. Her Stores consist of Fifty Barrils Pork & Twenty Barrils Beef, Six Tuns Bread, 1200 lb Powder Shot in Proportion 26 Muskets, Two Pistols, with Swords & Spears &c

Hartford July 30. 1777