The Committee of Both Houses appointed to Examine Caleb Wheaton, Caleb Wheaton, junr and Joseph Wheaton, Prisoners taken in the Brign bound from Boston to Hallifax, and sent to this Court by the Committee of

To what From Where Port sent How dis- Owners Whence bound for Sernrity Cargo posed of

} Melasses &ca

Grain &ca

Flour

Joseph White, Georgia Tortola Antigua Lumber

Miles & Greenwood

Unknown Do Santa Cruz Do Lumber and Indigo

Stone & Devaul

ref<wi<h

Isaac Hague Cols. Santee Charlestown Lord William Shot

in the Rebel Army Campbell

AlexrWyley Do Do Cape Fear French Flour, Wine and Foundred other Merchandize. at Sea

John Scott Barcelona Charlestown Cape Fear Brandy and Salt

Waltr. Fran[k]ling New York Georgia Savannah Bread, Flour, Rum,

Cyder, Apples & Bar Iron

Messers York & Lisbon Potts Philadelphia afterwards Ballast and £2,000

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to Boston

Messrs Roach and Jamaica Jamaica Savannah Lumber Lopez

[Blank] Santa Cruz Savannah Do Gunpowder and

Bale Goods

Bright, Pechin, Clay Philadelphia Do

} Flour, Bread, Beer & Habusham afterwards Rum&ca

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to Boston

Wm Mills Sunbury Do Savannah Damaged Rice

Joo Dennis & Co. Rhode Island Do Do Cyder & Potatoes

AndwBrown& Charlestown New York Cape Fear Rice and Indigo John Burr

Chatham in Halifax Harbour 24th April 1776.

M: Shuldham

Marblehead, have attended that service & Report. That it appearing to your Committee that the said Caleb Wheaton, having while in Boston been an Associator, and in other instances unfriendly to American liberty, are of opinion that the said Caleb Wheaton Caleb Wheaton Junr & Joseph Wheaton jointly & Severally give Bond to the Treasurer of this Colony in the penal Sum of Five Hundred pounds ー the Condition whereof to be that they & every of them will be of good behavior, and will not correspond with any of the Enemies of America, or take up Arms against the United American Colonies. And that they subscribe and make Solemn Oath before a Justice of the Peace within this Colony that they will faithfully observe & fulfil the Conditions beforementioned: And that they pay such Cost & . Charge as hath arisen by their being brought before the General Court, and in default of their complying with the foregoing that they be Committed to Close confinement until the further Order of the General Court Caleb Cushing pr Order In Council Read and accepted.