Sir

I am instructed by the Convention now sitting to communicate to your Committee the enclosed Resolve. Our Governor having no other Opportunity of procuring a Passage to great Britain than by some Packett or Ship from the Fleet in your Colony, has Requested this Convention to give a Passport for a Boat to go down to the Fleet on an Enquiry for a convenient passage. This Convention has thought proper to comply with the Request and has furnished a Passport, a Copy of which you have enclosed. The Governor in case a Ship of War should come up for him has pledged himself that no Hostilities [should] be committed by her in coming up or going down as far as he can prevent it, and to prevent any disagreable Occurrences, we have directed the Commander of our Ship Defence now down the Bay to come up. As the Governor leaves the Province at the request of the Convention, they wish to give every facility to his seasonable departure, confident that he has no hostile Designs against America and we request that you will take proper measures to prevent any interruption being given to the passage of his Boat on her present errand or to such Ship of War as may come up for him I am Sr [&c.]