[Boston] Wednesday June 4th 1777
Petition of Daniel Martin & Thomas Adams, Agents & Owners of the Privateer Schooner Buckram, setting forth That in the late Storm she was much Damaged & obliged to return & refit — that Thomas Snoden being more agreeable to the Men than Capt Marony praying that a new Commission may [be] issued to said Snoden as Commander of said Schooner —
Ordered that the Prayer of the above Petition be granted and that a Commission be issued out to Thomas Snoden as Commander of the above mentioned Schooner he complying with the Resolves of Congress — Bonds being given a Commission was issued out & Instructions delivered accordingly —
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 21, 523-24.