Capt Hardy Owner of the Brig Betsey bound on a Voyage to Hamburg on Continental Service having represented to this Board that he himself risques the Vessel against the danger of Seas and the barratry of the Master and that [John] Gale and [William] Colvert nominated by this Board as proper Persons to take the Command of her are strangers to him and he apprehends unacquainted with those Seas to which she is bound, Resolved that the former Resolution respecting this matter so far as it relates to Gale and Colvert be rescinded² and that the Committee of Edenton to appoint any known Freind of American Independance to the Command of the said Brigg.