Inquiry by a Committee into facts of Captain Taverner' s Voyage

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New-York, June 21, 1775.

The General Committee for the City and County of New-York having received intelligence that Andrew Taverner, master of the Ship Sally, arrived in said vessel at Trinity, in the Island of Newfoundland, the twenty-fourth ultimo, they accordingly appointed William Walton, Esq˙, Colonel Fleming, John Lamb, and John Broome, a Committee to wait on Theophilact Bache, to whom the said ship was addressed, to inquire of him the reasons (if any he knew) why the said Andrew Taverner did not proceed directly to Falmouth, or some other port in Great Britain, as he had engaged under oath to use his utmost endeavours to do: We, the said Committee, report, that pursuant to our appointment we waited upon Mr˙ Bache, who produced sundry vouchers, from which, together with his deposition hereunto annexed, we fully believe the said Theophilact Bache to be altogether innocent of having had any agency, directly or indirectly, in causing the aforesaid vessel to proceed to Newfoundland, as above-mentioned.

WM˙ WALTON,
EDWARD FLEMING,
JOHN BROOME,
JOHN LAMB.