Sir
You may thank your own folly & impertinence for what has now befallen you — I dispise your insinuations of Cruelty, as indeed I do Every thing Else you can say of me consistant with truth — you may go to the house of Office as offten as Nature calls, provided you return immediatly to your berth and keep your Tounge Still as you pass & repass — This you will attend to at your Perril
Hector McNeill 2
Monday 11 oClock Augt 11th 1777
1. Captain Hector McNeill Letter Book, MassHS.
2. See McNeill to the Continental Marine Committee, August 25.