[Admiralty Office] 8th Jany 1776
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My Lords Commrs of the Admty having received an Article of Intelligence 2 which appears very necessary for your information; I am commanded by their Lordships to send you inclosed a Copy thereof I am &c
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Rear Adml Shuldham ー Boston ー By the Milford The like to Commodore Sir Peter Parker ー at Corke by the Post
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/550, 509.
2. Shuldham's acknowledgment of the foregoing, received by him on March 27, 1776, states it was "intelligence from Virginia and Maryland," PRO, Admiralty 1/484.