[Watertown] Tuesday, June 6, 1775
Ordered, That Colonel [Samuel] Thompson, Major [Eleazer] Brooks, and Col. [Edward] Cutt, be a Committee to inquire into the circumstances of bringing the four Prisoners to this place yesterday.
Moved, That the Congress take some order at this time relative to the Prisoners.
The question being put, it passed in the negative.
Afternoon
Ordered, That the Committee appointed to inquire into the circumstances of bringing four Prisoners from Cambridge, be directed to make such provision for them as is necessary, till further orders from this Congress; and that Mr. [James] Robinson be added to the Committee, and that said Committee report what they think would be best to be done with them.
1. Force, comp., American Archives, 4th, II, 1391-1393, from Mass. Arch., vol. 32.