Sir
Your unofficer like behaviour and repeated breach of my Orders, obliges me to confine you to your birth untill it may be in my power to bring you to a Court Martial, where I hope you will have justice done — at your Perril break your Arrest, in which case I shall treat you as you deserve Yours
Hector McNeill 2
Ship Boston at Sea this 10th day of August 1777 — 6 oClock afternoon
1. Captain Hector McNeill Letter Book, MassHS.
2. See McNeill to the Continental Marine Committee, August 25.
