Related to Richard Coale, surgeon on the U.S.S. Lee, who was captured by the British and imprisoned at Greenock Scotland, comprising a pass issued by William Wilson, Commissary for Prisoners of War, Greenock, May 11, 1781; and a letter of introduction for Coale from Samuel and Robert Purviance, Baltimore merchants, to Jonathan Williams, a merchant in Nantes, France, dated Feb. 13, 1781; together with some biographical notes concerning Coale