Sir

We the Subscribers all of Providence in the County of Rhode Island Merchants request your Honor to grant a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal to Daniel Bucklin Commander of the Sloop Montgomery of which we are Owners. She is burthened about Sixty Tons, carries Ten Carriage Guns Four Pounders & Two Pounders and Ten Swivels, manned with Fifty Men, and fitted with a suitable Quantity'of Muskets, Blunderbusses, Cutlasses, Pistols Powder Ball and other Military Stores. He hath on board Thirty Barrels of Beef and Pork, Forty Ctwt of Bread, Eight Barrels of Flour, with some Rice, Beans Potatoes &c. John Field is First Lieutenant, Thomas Ruttenber Master, & Thomas G. Scranton Second Lieutenant. We are [&c.]

To the Hon'ble Nicholas Cooke Esqr