Commission Ordered for Peter Roberts

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State of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY:

To the honourable the Council now sitting in WATERTOWN:

The Petition of TRISTRAM DALTON, JONATHAN TITCOMB, PETER ROBERTS, THOMAS THOMAS, and EBENEZER PARSONS, humbly shows:

That your petitioners, owners of the schooner Ranger, burthened about fifty-two tons, armed with six three-pounders, ten swivels, two hundred weight of powder, with shot in proportion, navigated by forty men; and thirty barrels of beef and pork, three thousand weight of bread, on board. Said schooner is intended to cruise against the enemies of these United States.

The officers on board are as follows, viz: Peter Roberts, Commander; Jeremiah Parsons, First Lieutenant; John Robinson, Master.

Your petitioners, therefore, humbly request your Honours to commission the said schooner and commander for the purposes above mentioned. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

PETER ROBERTS,
In behalf of myself and owners.

In Council, September 27, 1776.

Read, and Ordered, That the prayer of the Petition be granted, and that a Commission be issued out to the said Peter Roberts, he complying with resolves of Congress.

JOHN AVERY, Deputy Secretary.