Preston Boston 28 June 1775
Sir,
I have received your Letters June 22, 23 & 24. The Vessels with Wood, Salt and Melasses are arrived.2 The Tender carries your People round again. I send you also my Order for Leeky to act as Lieutt, and some Proclamations to distribute. Lieutenant [George] Dawson is not directed to quit Salem Station, but, leaving either the Hope or Tender there, to run now and then in the other Schooner along the Coast as far as Piscataqua; but, as I find that Manc,hester, Salem, and Cape Ann Harbours are the Places from whence the Rebels can receive Supplies with most facility, I have directed him to make those the chief Object of his attention for some time to come.
I am &c.
Sam Graves
1. Graves's Conduct, Appendix, 447, MassHS Transcript.
2. Four vessels had been seized by the Merlin, Hope, and Lively and sent in as above related, namely: the sloop Race Horse, from Kennebec, with wood and bark, the brig Betsey and schooner Two Brothers, from Nova Scotia, with salt, and the schooner Molly, with molasses. Graves's Conduct, II, Prize List, 376, 377, MassHS Transcript.
