Prisoners

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The Committee appointed to examine the fifteen Prisoners

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sent to the Congress by the Committee of Safety, reported, verbally, facts as they found them. Whereupon,

Ordered, That Jonathan Winship and Jacob Whipple, two of the prisoners, be discharged immediately; that Jacob Davis, another of the prisoners, be sent to the main guard at Cambridge, the Congress having great reason to suspect that he enlisted in, and deserted from the Army raised by this Colony, and that the officers of the guard be certified in writing of what crime the said Jacob now stands charged; that John Freeman, a negro man, said to be the servant of Mr. Joseph Howett, of Newburyport, be sent to the Jail at Cambridge, there to continue till further orders; that the other prisoners, with the said Jacob and John, be committed to Captain Crafts, to be kept under guard until further orders.

Ordered, That Captain Brown cause suitable provision to be made for the said prisoners.