The Comtte of Council who was appointed on the 31: of July 1777 to Consider the Conduct of Capt Jno Fisk of the Armed Brigg Massachusetts in Company with the Tirannicide, Commanded by Capt Harraden, & the Cabot Comdd by Capt Olney at the time when they fell in with the Milford Friget in March Last — have attended that service, and Called upon such persons as they suposed most lickely to give information in the matter, & have taken severall Depositions Respecting his Conduct at that time and the Comtte from the best information they can at Present Obtain, are of Oppinion that Capt Fisk at the time aforesd behaved like a brave & good officer, and that any Accu[s]ations that have bin laid to his charge Cont[r]ary their to are injust and without foundation. which is submited
W Spooner by order
[Endorsed] In Council August 6:1777 Read & Accepted and there upon Ordered that the foregoing report be published in the Boston News Papers 2 in Order that Capt Fisk's Character may stand fair and appear to the World that, he has, in the Opinion of the Council behaved like a brave & Good Officer —
Jno Avery Dy Secy
1. Mass.Arch., vol. 167, 133.
2. Published in the Continental Journal and in the Independent Chronicle, August 7, and in the Boston Gazette, August 11.
