To the Honerable of the Council Watertown
Gentlemen

I wrote a Petition to you a fortnight ago which by the Councils breaking up you had not an oppertunty to see; I am necessitated to petition you again for my self and the three men belonging to the Rose which were taken last April at Frenchmans bay,² being confin'd now a Month to Close jail, haveing only straw to lye on with maney disagreeable things a jail is always subject too, which makes our Sittuation realy very miserable. if the Honble Gentn of the Council will be so kind as to take into consideration and enlarge my Confinment a little and send me to Concord, were I may be in company with some of my own station which are confind there and grant the three men the liberty of working for their livelyhood it would make our lives something agreeable which now is very unhappy and the obligation be always acknowledgd by yours with the Greatest Submission

June 3d ー 1776. Cambridge Goal

[Endorsed] In Council June 4th 1776 Read & order'd that the Prayer of the Petitioner be so far granted as that he be sent to Concord Goal & that he have the liberty of the Goal Yard on his giving his Parole in writing that he will not pass without the limits of the same ー And that Jeremh Colman, John Jones & James Neal taken prisoners with sd Fisher & now confined in Cambridge Goal, may be liberated from their confinement if they shall enter on board any of the Continental or Colonial Armed Vessels, otherwise to remain in Prison

John Lowell Dpy Secy P T