[Boston] Monday May 18th. 1778
Whereas it has been represented to this Board that there was a Mutiny onboard the State Brigantine Hazard Capt Simeon Sampson, commander, while on her late Cruize,1 the fomenters of which mutiny are not yet discovered & it being of dangerous consequence to let such attrocious crimes go unpunished—Therefore Ordered that Capt Simeon Sampson commander of the Hazard, Brigantine of War belonging to this State be & hereby is directed to detain all Wages & prize money as is now due, or may hereafter become due to the Ships Crew aforesaid until he has examin’d into the mutiny that arose on board the Brigantine aforesaid during her late Cruize & has found out the ringleaders thereof, or until the further Order of the Council—
LB, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 22 (Council Records, January–October, 1778), pp. 215–16. Marginal note: “Representation of/Capt. Simeon Sampson.”
1. Massachusetts Navy brigantines Hazard and Tyrannicide had set sail on this cruise on 26 Nov. 1777 from Casco Bay, Me., and returned to Boston 15 May 1778. MSaE, Log of Brigantine Tyrannicide, (Nov. 1777–May, 1778).