Colony of the
Massachusetts Bay |
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The major part of the Council of
said County |
To the Keeper of the Goal at Cambridge in the County of Middlesex ー Greeting
You are hereby commanded, to take into Your Custody Richard Fisher & Jeremiah Colman Mariners, and John Jones & James Neal, Marines lately taken Prisoners in the Sloop Hannah & brought into a Place called Mount Desert, bound on a Voyage to Hallifax ー and them and each of them safely keep, till the further Order of the major part of the Council, or they be otherwise discharged by due course of Lawー
In the name & by Order of the major part of the Council
Council Chamber [Watertown] May 4th 1776
