May it please your Excellency:
I was requested by some gentlemen in Edenton to inform you
that the former Judge Advocate, and martial of the Court of Admirality at Edenton were deceased; and as there is lately some prizes brought into that Port, a Court might soon be necessary; therefore they desire me to recommond to your Excellency Josiah Collins, Esqr., for Judge Advocate, and Mr. James Luten, Martial, which Gentlemen I believe to be well qualified for the said post.If it should please your Excellency to issue their Commissions, I can readily convey them.