Sir
I have sent you under the Care of a Sergeant four prisoners taken aboard the Schooner Valent,2 at Martha's Vineyard bound for Boston ー Viz:
Edward Marsh, Master the Mate, & two passengers in the employment of the Ministerial Forces I am Sir [&c.] Barh Bassett Majr in the Provincial Forces Martha's Vineyard ー April 16th 1776
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 194, 349, NA Photocopy.
2. Actually the schooner Violenti, bound from Marblehead for Georgia, taken at sea February l, 1776 by H.M.S. Scarborough and one of the prizes under convoy of that ship to Boston. On April 20, the prisoners, John Loring, Basil Cooper and David Lang were ordered to Concord jail. Mass. Arch., vol. 34.
