[Boston] Friday October 3, 1777
A Petition of Mungo Mackay, and others, Agents for several Privateers, setting forth that said Privateers join'd the Fleet which lately sail'd from the Port of Boston, under the Command of Commodore Manly, and praying the Court to give them Directions for obtaining their Share of the Prizes taken by said Fleet, agreeable to Contract.1
Read and thereupon Ordered, That Col. White2 and Capt. Reed,3 with such as the Honorable Board shall join, be a Committee to consider the same and report.
Sent up for Concurrence.
A Journal of the Honorable House of Representatives [10 Sept.-25 Oct. 1777], [Boston, 1777], 97. The brigantine Littleton, William Johnston, master, was the only prize taken by this Continental Fleet. See NDAR 9: 350-52.
1. See NDAR 8: 179-80, 375, 434-36.
2. Col. Ebenezer White of Plymouth.
3. Capt. William Reed of Plymouth.
