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they received was stopped out of their Wages. Yet I have never been reimbursed a single farthing. On the 12th of May the Capitulation took place and we all became Prisoners of War, I agreed with the British Admiral for all our Parole engaging that the Seamen and Marines should be exchanged. The last of June we arrived at Chester Pennsylvania, great Numbers of my People languishing under the Small Pox and a variety of other diseases, I hired a house for their reception and accommodation at my own particular Expense, whereby I am persuaded many usefull lives were preserved to this Country. I remained Two Years, and Seven Months as a Prisoner when I was at last exchanged for Captain Gayton of the Romulus a 44 Gun Ship, during which Time as I was deprived of the power of doing business for my support, I suffered heavily in my Finance which in addition to my dispersements for my Country, in the cause of Justice and Humanity, became very scanty and precarious opening a gloomy prospect of their entire Dissolution [-->page 9]