To the Honbl Counsell & House of Representitivs Now Assembled
I Would Inform your Hanners in behalf of the Committy of Safety in Hopkinton that we Have Eleven Prizners of War, and they are Desires to be Exchangd Viz. 7 of them are Officers Belonging to the Navey of Great Britten and We think they are but as Dead Wait on this State
P John Jones Comtt
Hopkinton Novmbr 13: 1776
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 8, 233.
