The committee appointed to consider the propriety of exchanging seamen, brought in their report, which was agreed to: Whereupon,

Resolved, That Lieutenant [George] Ball, of the Roebuck, and the three seamen that were taken with him, and are now prisoners in the lower counties on Delaware, be exchanged for Captain [William] Budden and his son, Seth Davis, and Samuel Conyers:

That six of the seamen now prisoners in the city of Philadelphia, to be named by the committee of safety of Pennsylvania, may be given up in exchange for the following persons, viz. Mr. Lightbody, James Hage, ---- Fortescue, a pilot boy; William Martin, Jacob Wilson, and John Durry:

That the said exchange of prisoners be conducted by such proper person as the committee of safety of Pennsylvania may appoint for that purpose.²

The Congress took into consideration the report of the committee to whom was referred the case of Alexander Ross; Whereupon,

Resolved that he be discharged from confinement.