These Lines Comes With our Humble petition to you Hoping you Will Have Sum compasion upon us poor amarican prisoners Here in prison and We Do Humbly Beg that you Will try to Get us out of Here and We Will Go in any of our Continentall Ships or any Ship you pleas to put us on Board. I William Moody Was Born in Newbury port Was Taken By The English in The year 1776 and Have Ben There Ever Since till This Sumer and Came from There and Was Taken By The Generall Miflin privater from Boston Capt George Babcock Comander and after He took us We Entered on Board and after We Had Done all the Hard Work He Sent us Here to prison and Wat He Sent us Here for i cannot tell and i John Crawford Belonging to philidelphia Was Take By the Same Ship and We Do Humbly Beg Sir you Will Do the Best you can for us. This is from your Humble Servants and We Do Humbly Beg you Will Send us an answer as Soon as you Can and Here is Sum more Seamen Will Go With us if you can Get us clear from prison