May it please your Honorsー
The Committee of Correspondence, Inspection & Safety for the Town of Boston beg Leave to represent to your honourable Board that a Complaint has been made to them "that a certain Briggantine lately a Prize taken by some of the Continental Cruisers whereof one Pine a Person inimical to these States is now Master, is in a very secret Manner getting ready for the Sea at an obscure Part if the Harbour of Lynn called the Pines" ー a Situation peculiarly adapted for such a clandestine Purpose as carrying off Prisoners of War & other disaffected Persons & very contiguous to the Residence of the most capital [Tory] now among us ー It is unnecessary for this Committee to suggest to your Honors the Danger to which the Departure of this Vessell niight subject us ー it is too striking to need any Representations ー We therefore pray your Honors to give such Directions to the Committee of Lynn, in whose Name as well as our own we make this Application, as to your Wisdom shall seem competent to remedy the Evil complained ofー
By Order & in Behalf of the Committee
[Endorsed] Recd at the Board Augt 8, 1776
In Committee of Council [Watertown] Augt 8, 1776 Read & Committed to Richd Derby Esqr to inquire into the Subject Matter of this Memorial and to make report and the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety of the Town of Lyn are directed in the Mean Time to have a strict Eye upon the Brigt. mentioned in this Memorial and not Suffer her to depart untill due Enquiry can be made relative to this Matterー
Jno Avery Dpy Secy
