The Petition of Jeremiah O'Brian Humbly Sheweth ー

that your Petitioner has been in the Colony Service since the Twenty first Day of August last as Commr in Chief of the Sloop Machias Liberty & Schooner Diligent [Diligence] which two Vessels [now at] Newbury compleatly Equipt for Sea, with about fifty Men on board them Ready for any Service the Honorable Court shall think fit to employ them in, one Vessel has four Carriage Guns Ten Swivels the other has five Carriage Guns & Twenty Swivels, has Ports for Eight Carriages, has Accomodations for Sixty five Men each, We are all waiting the Determination of the Honl Court wheither we are to be Discharged or to be further Employd in the Colony Service  your Petitioner can Recommend to the Honl Court the under Officers & Gunn[ers] to be men well skild in the Bussness

As in Duty bound shall Ever Pray
Jeremiah O'Bri[en]

To the Honl Council & House of Representatives
In Council Feby 2d 1776 Read & sent down ー Perez Morton Dpy Secry