Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, Southern District, ss.
To all whom it may concern.

Notice is hereby given, That the Maritime Court for the Southern District of the Colony aforesaid, will be held at Plimouth, on Wednesdaythe 7th day of August, 1776, at the hour of ten in the forenoon, to try the justice of the capture of the ship, named the R[e]ynolds, burthen about 300 tons (lately commanded by Keylock Rusden) and of her cargo and appurtenances: Against which a libel is filed before me (the said ship being brought into the Southern district aforesaid) in behalf of the owners, officers, marines and mariners of the armed sloop called the Congress, commanded by George McAroy.² And the owners of said Ship, or any persons concerned may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the same ship, her cargo and appurtenances should not be condemned.

At the Court aforesaid, will be tried the justice of Gilbert Harrison's claim to certain goods found on board the schooner Volant, lately condemned in the Maritime Court for the Southern district; ³ of which this notice is given to all persons concerned.

N. Cushing, Judge of said Court.