[Philadelphia] 3d July, 1776.
Sir: ー
It being judg'd expedient to remove Lieutenants Boger and Ball, Prisoners of war, stationed at Germant'n, from that place to York Town, and those Gentlemen having refused to give the Parole required of them previous to their removal and necessary upon that occasion, you are hereby required to order a discreet officer with a suitable guard, to proceed to Germantown and take into Custody the said Lt's Bager [Boger] and Ball, if they still refuse to sign the Parole, convey them forthwith to York Town, and there deliver them to the keeper of the Common Goal to be safely kept until this Committee or the honbl'e Congress shall discharge them.2 Provided, that if the said officers shall freely sign the Parole, the officer may send back the Guard and proceed with s'd Prisoners to York Town, and deliver them to the Care of the Committee, there to reside agTeeable to the terms thereof.
1. Hazard, et al., eds., Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, I, 445.
2. Ibid., 409, 410, an undated return of British prisoners in York Town, York County, lists: "Richard Bogyr, 2d Lieut. of his Majesties Ship Liverpool, taken at Sea off the Cape of Virginia, the latter end of March, 1776 [sic April 7]. George Ball, 3d Lieut. of the Roebuck, taken 28th March, 1776, off Cape Henlopen. Robert Chase, Lieut. of the Gasper [Gaspee], taken November 20th, 1775, in the River St. Lawrence."
