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Massachusetts By To The Keeper of the Goal at Ipswich in the County of Essex Greeting You are hereby ordered & directed to receive into your Custody John Rich, who was Master of the Sloop Success & sent to the Genl. Court by the Comtee. of Safety of Majorbagaduce for supplying the Enemy in Boston with Provisions or necessarys for their Subsistance, the facts appearing by the deposition & papers attendg sd. Rich to be true ー And you are him safely to keep until he shall give Bond with sufficient Surety to the Treasurer of this Colony ー in the Sum of Two hundred pounds Conditioned, that he the said Rich will not supply our Enemies with any thing whatever or be anyways aiding & assisting thereto; and that he will not hold any Correspondence with them, nor have any connections with any personthat shall be concerned with them and that he will be Accountable to the General Court in any breach of said Bond In the Name & by Order of the Council James Otis President

Council Chamber [Watertown] April 1st. 1776.