[Boston] Saturday March 15th 1777
Petition of Elijah F. Payne setting forth the privateer Eagle on her late Cruize took & brought into this State a certain Mulatto Boy said to be son to the King of Syrolean & bound to Liverpool to be Educated praying that he may have Liberty to depart this State in the Brig Lord Lifford bound to Europe. Ordered that the Prayer of the within Petition be granted and that the Young Mulatto Lad mentioned in said Petition have Liberty to depart from this State to Ireland in the Brig Lord Lifford of which John Jones is Master.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 20, 331, 333.