You are hereby required and directed to put in execution those orders you have received from Captain [Matthew] Squire to escort the Cruizers Tender to Cape Fear, giving her Lieutenant orders to put himself under your command, and having so done, to return to this place with all possible dispatch.

Given under my hand on board his
Majesty's Ship the Roebuck at Virginia
the 9th February 1776.

To Lieut John Wright
commander of the Otters Tender the Betsey