Whereas this Council have been advised by Elias Boudinot Esqr. Commissary General of Prisoners that he hath Negotiated the Exchange of Capt. Manley1 late of the Hancock Frigate for Capt. Furneaux2 late of the Syren, and requested that said Capt. Furneaux might be sent to Newport as soon as possible.3 It is therefore Voted and Resolved that Daniel Mowry junr. Esqr; be and he is hereby directed to convey the said Capt. Furneaux by the Country Road to Warwick Neck and deliver him to the Commanding Officer at that Post, who is hereby requested to convey him on board the British Frigate4 lying in the Narragansett Passage.
D, RHi, Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Collection, vol. 12, p. 101, no. 1287.
1. Capt. John Manley, Continental Navy, had been captured in July, 1777. See NDAR, vol. 10: 269-73.
2. Capt. Tobias Furneaux, R.N. On his capture in November 1777, see vol. 11: 428.
3. For more on Manley's exchange, see Continental Marine Committee to the Continental Navy Board of the Eastern Department, 9 May, below. Furneaux arrived at Newport on 25 Apr. Mackenzie, Diary 1: 271.
4. H.M. frigate Juno.
