A Petition to Sir Guy Carlton

Governor of Canada

May it please your excellency:

Impressed with a just sense of your Excellency's Humamity, and Benevolance, and urged by the Peculiarity of our present disagreeable situation, being destitute of both friends and money; we beg leave to request that your Excellency will condescend to take our cause into consideration, and grant us relief, by permitting us to return to our respective Homes, on our Parole, which we shall ever deem sacred, assuring your Excellency, that we shall make it a point to surrender ourselves to any of his Majesty's Officers, when. and where, your Excellency may think proper to direct.

Being likewise sensibly touched with the deplorable state of our men, who remain Prisoners at present, we take the liberty to recommend tham to your Excellency's consideration, earnestly soliciting that some measure may be taken for their relief; and we should be extremely happy if they could possibly reurn to their Families, many of whom must be reduced to the greatest Distress.

Your Excellency's compliance will be esteemed a singular favor, and ever gratefully acknowledged by:

Your Excellency's
Most obidient, and very
humble servents

June 7, 1776

Officers taken December 31, 1775

.. Christopher Greene .............. RI ............. Lt Col
.. Timothy Bigelow ................... Mass ........ Maj
.. Return Jonathan Meigs ........ Conn ........ Maj
.. Daniel Morgan ...................... Va ............ Capt
.. Willm. Goodrich .................... Mass ........ Capt
.. Samuel Lockwood ................ Conn ........ Capt
.. Elezer Oswald ...................... Conn ........ Capt
.. John Topham ....................... RI ............. Capt
.. Simeon Thayer ..................... RI ............. Capt
.. Sanuel Ward ......................... RI ............. Capt
.. John Hubbard ....................... Mass ......... Capt
.. Henry Dearborne .................. NH ............ Capt
.. John Lamb ............................ NY ............ Capt
.. Oliver Hanchett ..................... Conn ........ Capt
.. Archibald Steel ..................... Penn .......... Lieut
.. Matthew Duncan .................. Penn .......... Lieut
.. William Heath ....................... Va ............. Lieut
.. Peter O'Brien Braen ............. Va ............. Lieut
.. John McGuire ...................... Va ............. Lieut
.. Charles Poterfield ................ Va ............. Lieut
.. Abijah Savage ..................... Conn ......... Lieut
.. John Comprton .................... Mass.......... Lieut
.. Samuel Brown ..................... Mass .......... Lieut
.. James Fisdale .................... Mass .......... Lieut
.. John Clark ........................... Mass .......... Lieut
.. Willm. Humphrey ................. RI .............. Lieut
.. James Webb ....................... RI .............. Lieut
.. Edward Slocum ................... RI .............. Lieut
.. Sylvarus Shaw .................... RI .............. Lieut
.. Armon Andrews .................. RI .............. Lieut
.. Nathaniel Hutchins .............. RI .............. Lieut
.. Joseph Thomas ................... RI .............. Lieut
.. Frances Nichols ................... Penn ......... Lieut
.. Randolph McDougall ........... NY ............. Lieut
.. Christain Phebegiry ............. Denmark .... Lieut
.. Benjamin Chathen ............... Conn .......... Lieut