[Watertown] Monday April 8th 1776
Whereas an order passed this Court that Caleb Green have liberty to receive Six persons out of Taunton Goal taken froni the Navy under the command of Capt Wallace at Newport, in order to redeem the same number of Men, lately taken by hiw on their passage from Philadelphia to Dartmouth, and as there was but five in said Goal, for which five he hath received five men taken on their Passage aforesaid. One yet remains on board Wallace ー it is therefore Resolved that Charles Arnold be allowed to receive of the Prison keeper in Concord one man (a Sailor if may be) giving his Bond to the Sheriff of the County of Middlesex or the keeper of said Goal for the Use of this Colony in the penal Sum of Fifty pounds, conditioned that in case he shall not Exchange the Prisoner whom he shall receive from Concord Goal for One Joseph Russell now on board the said Wallace, he will return the Prisoner to the said Prison keeper in Concord within fourteen days from the time he shall receive him the said Prisoner, & the keeper of said Prison is hereby directed to conform himself accordingly to this Order provided the said Arnold shall give security as above directed Resolved that the Committee of Truro be directed to pay John Kenny so much of his Account Petitioned for, as shall be thought just by said Committee, out of the money found on Board the Friendship, 2 and Lodge there Account with the Judge of Admiralty of Plymouth for allowance
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 34, 733, 735, 736-37.
2. The Friendship, British transport, was cast away to the southward of Cape Cod on March I, 1776.