This is to certify to whomsoever it may concern that the bearer hereof ........... a Negro restored to the British Lines in consequence of the proclamation of Sir William Howe and Sir Henry Clinton, late Commanders-in-chief in America; and that the said Negro has hereby his excellency's Sir Guy Carleton's permission to go to Nova Scotia or wherever else .......... may think proper.
By order of
Brigadier Gen. Buck.
E. Williams,
Major of Brigade.
[31] American State Papers, Vol. I, pp. 190-192.
[32] McDonald's Source Book of American History, p. 208.
[33] American Historical Association Report, Vol. I, p. 276.
[34] Annals of Congress, 4th Congress, p. 970.
[35] Report of the American Historical Association, pp. 413-444; Diplomatic Correspondence 1783-1789 (3 Vol. ed.), II, 340.
[36] Morse, John Adams, p. 235.