Gentlemen

I understand that your Honble Board intend to dispatch a Flagg of Truce to Halifax, — Suffer me the Liberty to Send you a List of my Officers, & men who are now prisoners there, Rumbley praying that you would be pleased to take Such Steps as will Set them at Liberty as soon as possible, more Espacially Such a number of those first on the List, as may be an Equivalent for the Officers, and men, of the Fox, now prisoners here. you will be pleased to Consider that many of my men have familys here in a Suffering Situation which of Necessity will grow greater from their Absences. I am Gentlemen with due Respect [&c.]

Boston 16th Septr 1777