Pleasant weather employd in fixing our Vessel part of my Crew demanded their discharge I told them it was not in my power to discharge them in a Foreign port. they told me they would desert. I acquainted them that if they did I should do all in my power to catch them & should confine them until I was ready to leave the port & then take them on board. they apply'd to the Continental Agent ² to enter on board his Schooner Privateer he refus'd them. they then apply'd to the Intandant, he told them they wer Subject to their Captn & none else and that there Capt was not Subject to any body but the Council of the State of Massachusetts Bay. therefore he advised them to repair on board & do their duty. they told me that they would not do their duty that they had no Officers & they were very troublesome and made much uneasiness on board