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I have taken the Depositions of several People on Board the Tarter Transport and do find upon the whole that the Master of her Basely & Cowardly gave her up without firing a Gun, tho' encouraged by his own Men to fight the Privateer — but as we have no Method by Common Law for Punishing Cowards I cant see what we or you can do with him, for there is no Punishing Cowardice but by the Martial...
Date: 10 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The House having taken into Consideration the Essential Services rendered the Province by the Spirited Exertions of the Officers and Seamen of His Majesty's Ships particularly in quelling the late Insurrection at Cumberland, and the Alacrity they have on all Occasions shown in doing their Duty, so entirely to the Satisfaction of the Inhabitants.
Resolved, that the Thanks of this House be...
Date: 17 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9