Cambridge, Decemr 7, 1775.
Gentlemen ー
Richard Emms, a prisoner at Portsmouth,2 having expressed a strange desire to go to his Family & Friends in the West Indies, in a schooner which is about to go there, you will be pleased to grant him a permit for that purpose, unless there be any objections against it which I am not apprised of. I am, &c.
Go Washington
1. Bouton, ed., Documents and Records of New Hampshire, VII, 684.
2. Master of the ship Prince George, which strayed into Portsmouth on October 2, with a cargo of flour.
