In Council [Boston] 17th Septr 1777
Ordered that Robert Pierpoint Esqr Commissary of prisoners within this State, be directed to Inform the Commissary of Prisoners in New York & Hallifax that Capt Gideon White who is now going to Hallifax in the Cartel, is sent in Exchange for Mr Consider Howland,2 who some months since was permitted to return from New York on his parole
Jno Avery Dy Secy
Read & Accepted
1. Mass.Arch., vol. 173, 416A.
2. Master on board brig Washington in General Washington's Fleet captured by H.M.S. Fowey in December 1775. See Volume 3.
