State of the Massachusetts Bay —
To the Honble the Council now setting in Watertown
The Petition of Tristram Dalton of Newbury, Joseph Russell, Joseph Barrel & Job Prince of Boston-Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioners Owners of the Sloop Satisfaction burthen Ninety Tons, armed with fourteen Carriage Guns, four Pounders, twelve Swivels, Seven hundred Weight of Powder, with Shot in Proportion Navigated by one hundred Men, John Stevens Capt. Joseph Drinkwater 1st Lieut John Bartlett 2d Sarni Brown Master -has on Board as Provisions, five Tons Bread Seventy Bis Beef & Pork -twenty Bushls Peas -Said Sloop is intended to cruise against the enemies of the united States
Your Petitioners would therefore humbly Request your Honors to Comission said Sloop & Comander for the Purposes above mentioned & as in Duty bound Shall ever pray
John Stevens
In behallf of the owners
Boston Novr 4t[h] 1776
[Endorsed] In Council Novr 9t 1776 Read & Ordered that the Prayer of the Above Petition be granted and a Comission be issued out to the Above named Comander he complying with the Resolves of the Congress —
John Avery Dpy Secy
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 166, 15.
