You are hereby required and directed to take the Kitty Transport, James Thompson Master under your Convoy to New York, and to wait upon Rear Admiral Shuldham for his Dispatches for the Captains of his Majestys Ships to the Southward and having received them, and the Transports being ready to sail with you, to proceed according to my Orders of the 12th instant without a Moments Loss of time.
Saml Graves
Given under my hand on board his Majs Ship Preston at Boston 15 January 1776
1. Graves's Conduct, Appendix, 117, BM.
