Sir You are to recruit your present Crew to 70 Men including Officers but not out of the Companies stationed at Marblehead for the Security of the Coast without the Consent of the Committee. You will have further Instructions in a few days in the mean Time you are to follow the Orders of your Colonel. I am Sir [&c.]
J R
Head Quarters [Cambridge] Octo 12. 1775
Copy of Same to Capt. [John] Sellman ー
1. Washington Papers, LC.
