Providence, August 13, 1792. “The Collector of Barnstable acquainted me, at the Time, with the Transaction1 communicated in your Letter of the 31st of July, which came to hand yesterday.… I caused enquiries to be made, relative to Samuel Bourn and his Vessel, of one Benja: Bourn, who was here with a Sloop of the same Name, from Wareham, and who said, he was informed that the said Samuel Bourn was gone with his Sloop to Georgia. This is all the knowledge I have of him or the Vessel; she never having been licenced at this Office.…”