[Boston] 3d. [January, 1775]
By an express from Captain [James] Wallace, Information coming of the Hinds Arrival very leaky in her Decks and Upper Works at Rhode Island, with Camp and Tent Equipage, and a Detachment of Marines for the Battalion at Boston,2 the Admiral ordered the Equipage and Detachment to be taken on board the Rose and the Hind to make the best of her way to join Vice Admiral [William] Parry at the Leeward Islands according to her Orders from the Admiralty
1. Graves's Conduct, I, 41, MassHS Transcript.
2. "Yesterday Week [January 1] arrived at Rhode Island, a Ship of 20 Guns, from England, with 200 Marines on board bound for Boston," New York Gazette, 9 January, 1775.
