[On board the brig Elizabeth, March 26, 1776] 2
May it please your Excellency In pursuance of the Orders I received from Brigadier General [JamesJ Robertson I did take to my assistance the Persons whose Names I returned to him vizt Charles Blasquet Richard Hill John Hill and David Cunningham who with their Families have spared no fatigue or Labor in assisting me to execute the Orders your Excellency was pleased to give me these Persons are cheifly of my own Family have principally neglected their own Concerns to serve Government at my request and confiding in the assurance I gave totally neglected providing a Passage in any Vessel which otherways they could easily have procured Myself and these People have inclosed a small space between Decks have our own Stores and Provisions and cannot be the least inconvenience to any Person on board notwithstanding this I am apprehensive of their being removed & Myself left without assistance for my persnal convenience may not be removed & comfort, I would therefore ask it as a favor that C. Brush they [Endorsed] No 51 A true Copy attest Se!h Lo ring Clerk in the Secys Office
1. Revolutionary War Prize Cases, Records of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, 1775-1787. "The Elizabeth and Cargo, Wentworth Appellant," NA.
2. The date is approximated; see note under Brush's Memorial, March 25, 1776.
