Preston Boston June 29. 1775.
Sir
I have received your Letters June 5 and 19, the former giving an Account of an Insurrection at Rhode Island, happily quelled by your spirited and determined Behaviour, the latter inclosing Copies of a Letter to you from Nicholas Cooke Esqr of your Answer, and of the Particulars of an Action between the Diana Packet (Tender to the Rose) and two armed Sloops belonging to the Rebels. The Accounts of the Insurrection and Battle are of so much importance that I have transmitted copies of the whole to the Admiralty by the Cerberus, who sailed the 27th early in the Morning. The Vessels with Rum Sugar and Provisions are arrived,2 and your People are returned in the Charlotte Sloop.
I am &c
Saml Graves
1. Graves's Conduct, Appendix, 448, MassHS Transcript.
2. The prizes sent to Boston were the sloop Phoenix, William Dennis, from Philadelphia for Rhode Island, with flour, and the sloop Victory, with forty-seven hogsheads of rum, seized in Narragansett Bay. Ibid., Prize List, II, 376, MassHS Transcript.
