To the Keeper of his Majesty's Goal at Salem in the County of Essex ー Greeting
You are hereby ordered & directed to receive into your Custody John Ritchie & Jn Ritchie junr, two persons taken at Beverly, on attempting to supply the Enemy in Boston with Provissions ー And them & each of them safely keep in close confinement, unless they give Bonds with sufficient Sureties for the Liberty of the Yard till the further order of the major part of the Council ー They to be supported at their own Expence ー Given under our hands; at the Council Chamber in Watertown, the ninth Day of Novr A Domini 1775 ー
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 164,187.
