To the Honorable Councell & to the Honorable House of Represen[ta]tives
in Generall Court Assembled At Wattertown the 5d day of April Anno Domini 1776
The Pettition of John Moodie of Boston Mariner Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner sailed From Boston in August Last for Anoplas Royal In Novescotia and Sould his Cargo Their For Cattel Hay Wood Butter and Fish and Sundries ー And Was tacken By Capt Masirey 2 of Sealem and Carried In their. 3
Your Pettitioner is Now hear in Destress with a Wife and Two Children Just out of the Small pox and Nothing to Support them Prayes Your Honors Would please to order that He may Have His own Wages and Adventure allowed to Him For His Familes Support and that your Honors would Take His Destressed Condition into your searios Consideration And order that Something may Be allowed For the mentaining of Him and his much Destresed Famelie and Your Pettitioner as m alw[ays] Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c
John Moodie
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 180, 393.
2. Ibid., vol. 5, 108, Richard Masury, commanding the Massachusetts privateer schooner Dolphin.
3. The schooner Fisher, fifty tons burden, libeled in Admiralty Court for trial at Ipswich, March 21, 1776. .