Letter from Robert H. Harrison to William Bartlett

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Cambridge, January 17, 1776.

SIR: I am to inform you, by command of his Excellency, that Archibald Templeton, James Crawford, Joseph Douglass, James Hamilton, and John McIver, who belonged to the ship Concord, Captain Laurie, have his permission to go on board our armed vessels.

You will please to observe, that his Excellency would not wish that too great a number of them should be in one vessel; for, though these men may be well disposed to serve us, it is only right to guard against accidents.

I am, &c˙,