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The Committee of Privileges and Elections have examined
the cases of John McIntire, Alexander Thomson, George Oldner,
William Ancock and Stephen Samson junr who were apprehended
on suspicion of being inimical to the Rights and Liberties of
America; And it appears to your Committee that the said John
McIntire, was formerly a Sailor in a vessel belonging to William
Black and was impresed on board a Man of War, from which
he made his escape, and was taken in the Neighbourhood of
Norfolk. It appears to your Committee that the said Alexander
Thomson was a resident in Portsmouth & taken from thence &
sent to the Publick Goal, no testimony appearing respecting
his conduct.

It appears to your Committee from sundry
Depositions that the said George Oldner hath been
unfriendly to the American Cause, but committed no act
that brings him within the Ordinance for trying the
Enemies of America.

It appears to your Committee that the said
William Ancock was taken near Norfolk and is a Sailor
belonging to the other man of War.

It appears to your Committee that the said
Stephen Samson was taken in company with the said
William Ancock and is an Apprentice to Thoroughgood
Smith Co., of the Eastern Shore.

Whereupon your Committee came to the following
Resolutions, Viz.

Resolved, as the Opinion of this Committee that the said John
McIntire be discharged from Confinement

Resolved, as the Opinion of this Committee, that the said Alexander
Thomson be discharged from Confinement.

Resolved, as the Opinion of this Committee, that the said George
Oldner be removed from the County of [strike - Princess Ann] Norfolk to an
interior part of the Country agreeable to a Resolution of
this Convention.