Admiralty Office 20th Sepr 1775
Sir
Orders being given for the Ship Brownhall, Edward Austin Master, laden with Naval Stores for Halifax, to proceed to Boston under Convoy of the first of His Majts Ships that sails from Spithead to that Port; I am commanded by my Lords Commissrs of the Admty to signify their direction to you, upon her arrival at Boston, to send her under Convoy from thence to Halifax, I am &c.
P S
By the Experiment
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/550, 148.