[Watertown] Thursday Septr 19 1776
On Motion Ordered That William Seaver Esqr Agent for the Southern District be and he hereby is directed to deliver to Thomas Ludlow a prisoner taken in the Sloop Elizabeth of which he was Master and Owner such Articles of Cloathing and Household Furniture as the said Mr Seaver shall judge Necessary for the said Ludlow and his Family he the said Ludlow giving a Receipt to be Accountable for the same when Demanded.
On Motion Ordered That James Bowdoin Esqr William Seaver and Walter Spooner Esqrs be a Committee to determine the Cruize of the two Armed Sloops under the Command of Capt John Foster Williams & Capt John Clouston and Report.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 19, 236, 237-38.