To the Naval Continental Committee, to be held in Providence, April 3. 1778. 

John Gallard Mariner humbly sheweth. 

That at Providence in the Year 1776, he engaged to go on Board the Continental Ship Columbus, and for that Purpose he proceeded to Philadelphia, and there entered accordingly.¹ He then proceeded in her to New-Providence and after the Accomplishment of the Business of the Fleet there,² afterwards in attempting to go into Rhode Island he lost his left Arm in an Engagement with the Glasgow Ship of War.³ He received on Account of his Service his full Wages but no Prize Money except Twenty Dollars, and Nothing on Account of the Loss of his Arm or his Pain, Misery, and Damages occasioned thereby. He then proceeded to Philadelphia by Land, and entered on Board the Continental Sloop Sachem, James Robinson Esq. Commander, about the 25^th. Day of March 1777. as Boatswain—On the 5^th. Day of April the Sachem was taken by an English Ship of War,⁴ and the Petitioner made Prisoner; in which Condition he remained 11 Months and 5 Days, until he was relieved by a Cartel at Newport. 

Now he requests that Order may be made for full Compensation to him for the Loss of his Arm, agreeable to the Resolution of Congress in that Behalf, and the Articles by him signed, with Such further Sum as may be judged reasonable for his Pain Misery, and extraordinary Expences in this dreadful Matter;⁵ and that he may be ordered to receive his whole Prize Money due on Account of his whole Service, and his Wages from the Time of his Entry on Board the Sachem for one whole Year, for which Time he engaged at 15 Dollars a Month, Eleven Months and 5 Day having actually expired at the Time of his Release from the Prison Ship at Newport.