[Watertown] Monday October 28th 1776.
Petition of Job Trip of Dartmouth, settin, g forth That he was employ'd by the State in the month of April last, to take charge of a Vessel, & proceed to Philadelphia, in order to transport from thence a Cargo of Flour but he was so unfortunate as to be taken by one of the ministerial Tenders, the people on board of which were so inhuman, & cruel as to fire a broadside upon the vessel of the petr after he had Submitted, by which he was badly wounded in the thigh, the bone broken, & very much shatter'd, so that he has become a Cripple, unable to do any sort of business, & but a very small prospect of being any better; a Series of Misfortunes having attended the unhappy petr before this, that he was in low circumstances as to Interest & is now thrown entirely upon the benefaction of his friends & relations. This being his unhappy situation... he is encouraged from the known humanity, & benevolence of this, & former Assemblies of the great, & general Court of this State, to hope, & trust the present Hon: Court will take the deplorable situation of their unhappy Petr under their wise consideration, & grant him such relief, as they in their great Wisdom shall think proper. Order thereon In the House of Representatives. Resolved that thirteen pounds be paid out of the publick Treasury of this State to Walter Spooner Esqr for the use of Job Tripp, &c