Committee of Safety to General Thomas

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Cambridge, May 11, 1775.

The Captains Caleb Wright and John Holmes, of the County of Berkshire, now report verbally, that your Excellency is willing that about sixty of Colonel Fellows' s men, who have not enlisted, may have liberty to return home, they having first the consent of this Committee. We have conferred with his Excellency General Ward, upon the subject, and are of opinion that no liberty ought to be granted to any for that purpose until the camps are so far strengthened as that all who were called in upon the late alarm may have liberty to return; and as the Troops from Connecticut are very soon expected, we think that these, with others which are daily coming in, will strengthen our hands so far as to relieve those who want to return to their homes. We are, &c.