I Clark Gayton Esquire in the Annexed Writ of Habeas Corpus named do certify and return that James Young in the said annexed Writt also named before the obtaining and issuing the said annexed Writ to wit on the Twenty Eighth day of January last past was taken by one of his Majestys Ships of War under my Command as he the said James Young was coming out of the Port of Cape Nicholas Mole in the Island of Hispaniola in and on board of a Schooner or Vessell belonging to the Inhabitants of the Colony of North Carolina in North America of and in which Schooner or Vessell he was a Mariner or one of the Crew and was then on his Voyage in the said Schooner or Vessell going with a Cargoe of Molasses and Coffee which he had laden [and] taken on board the said Schooner or Vessell at Cape Nicholas Mole aforesaid for and to trade in the said Colony of North Carolina ー in North America aforesaid  And that I have taken the said James Young and have entered his Name on the Books of His Majesty's Ship of War the Antelope before the issuing and obtaining the said annexed Writt by Virtue and in pursuance of His Majesty's Order and Instructions signified to me by the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain &c. and by their Secretary acting under their Authority. And that I do detain the same James Young by virtue and in pursuance of the said Orders and Instructions and an Act passed in the sixteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty entitled an "Act to prohibit all trade and intercourse with the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusets Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virgi[nia,] North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia during the continuance of the present Rebellion within the said Colonies respectively for repealing an Act made the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty to discontinue the landing and discharging lading or Shipping of Goods Wares and Merchandize at the Town and within the Harbor of Boston in the province of Massachusets Bay And also two Acts made in the last Session of Parliament for the restraining the trade and Commerce of the Colonies in the said Acts respectively mentioned And to enable any person or persoru: appointed and authorized by his Majesty to grant Pardons, to issue Proclamations in the Case and for the purposes therein mentioned" To which said Act I refer. And this is the Cause of the Capt[ion] and Detention of the said James Young whose Body at the Day and place in the annexed Writt mentioned I have ready as by the annexed Writt I am required,

Filed the 16th ffebruary 1776.

[Endorsed by Edward Webley]

Jamaica ss Saint Jago de la Vega

February 16th 1776. The Body of James Young in the annexed Writt of Habeas Corpus named being this day brought before me by virtue of the said annexed Writt of Habeas Corpus And the same together with the return thereof being filed and read I do remand the said James Young And He is remanded accordingly.

Edw^d Webley