[Boston] Friday January 3d 1777
Warrant on the Treasury for Fifty six pounds eight shillings to John Ayres Commander of the Lynch Cartel Schooner to pay ten Men and a pilot to Navigate said Vessel to New York and back again Signed by fifteen of the Council.
Warrant on the Treasury for Fifty six pounds eight shillings to Daniel Waters Commander of the Lee a Cartel Vessel to pay ten Men on [sic and] a Pilot to Navigate said Vessel to New York and back again — Signed by fifteen of the Council 2
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 20, 149, 150-51.
2. Neither the Lynch nor the Lee was used as a cartel because of the "refractory disposition of the Men and their unwillingness to go to New York that it was judged unsafe to send them that way." See Journal of the Massachusetts Council, January 4.
