Pursuant to orders from Vice Adml Graves. You are hereby required and directrd to put yourself under his command, to use the utmost dispatch in getting His Majesty's Ship under your command ready for Sea, to complete your Sea Stores to Twelve Months, and your provisions of all Species to Six, and follow his orders for your further proceedings, for which this shall be your order: Given under my hand at Halifax the 5th January 1776.
M Arbuthnot
Captain Hamond Roebuck By Commd of the Commodore J White
1. Hamond, Orders received 1775-1776, UVL.
