[Williamsburg] Monday, 24th June, 1776.
Ordered, that two of the eighteen-pounders at James Town to Captain [John] Calvert for use of his Row Galley, and that the former order for sending them to Alexandria be rescinded.
Colonel [William] Christian laid before this Board a General List of the Highland Prisoners taken by Captain James and Richard Barron in the Ship Oxford, and also an allotment of them into fourteen divisions, to be distributed according to the direction of the General Convention. And it is thereupon ordered that they be immediately sent to the respective counties hereinafter mentionel in the following proportions to-wit:
[Here follows a tabulation by individual names of the fourteen counties in which the Highlanders were distributed]
Ordered that John McDugall and John Trevitt, with eight seamen belonging to the American cruiser Andrew Doria, be permitted to pass through this colony on their way to Philadelphia.