in Council Chamber [Watertown] Nov 5 1776,
order'd
that Capt Jno Foster Williams be directed to discharge from on bourd the Priviteer Sloop republic under his Command as Many of those Seamen Taken in the Ship Julius Ceaser as Incline & shall in fact enter on Board any armed Vessel in this or any of the united State, and those of them who Incline to go to Hallifax be retaind on hoard the said Sloop till further orders.2
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 166, 16.
2. The sloop Republic returned from a cruise on November 3 and brought in the ship Julius Caesar, of 400 tons, bound from London for Halifax with a cargo estimated at £11,000 sterling. She mounted ten carriage guns and carried a crew of twenty-five men, Independent Chronicle, Boston, November 7, 1776.
