A Petition of Stephen Hall, and Peleg Crocker ー owners of the Sloop Nancy ー setting forth ー That said Sloop was taken sometime last summer by some of the Militia of the Eastern Regiment in the County of Lincoln, & hath been detained there ever since. That at the Time she sailed from Boston, they had no other means of getting her away than by obtaining a pass from the Admiral for to go to the Eastward for Wood, and by such a pass she sailed, tho' they never intended she should return to Boston without the leave of the Committee of Scituate to which place she was order'd at first to go, but the Wind being light and fearing she might be discovered, and taken by the Kings Ships before they could get there, they proceeded down to the Eastward in order to take in a Load, and proceed directly back to Scituate, for the purpose of obtaining leave as aforesaid, but while at the Eastward the said Sloop was stop'd, and there remains without any other reason (thatthe Pet[itione]rs knew of) than her having a pass from the Admiral. ー And praying that said Sloop may be restored to them &c²