Sir.

The Subscriber¹ in behalf of M^r. Jonathan Waldron of Taunton in the State of Massachusetts Bay Merchant requests your Excellency to grant a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal to him as Commander of the Schooner Congress, of which the said Jonathan together with M^r. George House² are Owners. She is burthened about Fifteen Tons carries Eight Swivel Guns, manned with Twenty Men, and fitted with a suitable Quantity of Muskets Blunderbusses Cutlasses Pistols, Blunderbusses, Powder Ball and other Military Stores. She hath on board Two bbls Beef and Pork Three barrels Bread and one barrel of Flour. John Scranton³ is First Lieutenant and Alexander Adamson is Master of said Schooner. I am with great Respect [&c.]