East Greenwich, June [16] 1775
It is voted and resolved, that the letter written by His Honor the Deputy Governor to James Wallace, Esq., commander of His Majesty's Ship Rose, and Capt. Wallace's answer, be published in the next Newport Mercury, and Providence Gazette.2
1. Bartlett, ed., Records of Rhode Island, VII, 353.
2. The letters were published in the Providence Gazette, June 17, 1775, and in the Newport Mercury, June 19.