We are informed that the Private Men that formely belonged to the Ship Bon Homme Richard are to receive their Wages and Prize Money in France for their Services onboard said Ship. Now Sir as many of us have been absent from our Wives and Families a long Time and some of us have been Confined in Prison a great While and we have been flatter’d with those words that we were to receive our Wages and all our Prize money before we sailed and now we understand that only the Bon Homme Richard’s Company are to be paid and as we one and all of us have engaged in the same Cause as those Men that were in the Bon Homme Richard we think it very hard that we cannot enjoy the same Priviledges as those in the aforesaid Ship. The Reason that we are so very desirous to have our Dues at this present Time is because that we are inclined to assist those our unhappy Countrymen who are just releived from Prison and also to furnish ourselves with such Necessaries as we greatly stand in Need of. We humbly beg that your Honour would take this Matter into your Consideration and send us an Answer as soon as possible that we may all gain Satisfaction and Contentment is the earnest Desire of your most obedient and most Humble Servants the Private Men belonging to the Continental Ship Alliance