Please to inform their Lordships y^t. Yesterday we received Information of two Americans being on board the Kent; lying at Dukes Shore; a Sloop bound to Dunkirk upon which we directed Lieutenant Drew to go on board the Kent & secure them, which he immediately affected, (about an hour before the Sloop sailed) on examining them this day we find that one of them, John Carr, was born at Newberry Port, in the Province of Massachusets Bay, that he sailed from thence in the Dolphin¹ an Armed Vessel, and was bound to Nantz in France, was taken on her Passage by His Majesty's Ship Raisonable, and on her arrival he was sent to Mill Prison at Plymouth, from whence he made his escape, with Johnson² who commanded the Lexington.

the other John Sutherland, was born in Norfolk County Virginia, was taken in the Lexington Privatier, & made his escape from Mill Prison with the abovementiond Carr, Johnson and others: we have ordered them into close Confinement & beg their Lordships directions how they are to be disposed of.³