Having appointed you Captain of His Majts Ship Ambuscade at Chatham which we have ordered to be fitted & Stored at that place for a Voyage to North America, Mann'd with Two Hundred & Twenty Men & Victualled for Six Months with all Species of Provisions except Beer of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow & to be supplied with a proportion of Wine or Spirits for Two. Months in lieu of the remainder You are hereby required & directed to use the utmost dispatch in getting her ready for the Sea accordingly & then falling down to Blackstakes take in her Guns & Gunners Stores at that Place & proceed to the Nore for further Order.
Sandwich J Buller H Palliser
Given &c 30th Jany 1776
By &c G J DS
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/100, 383.