1. This letter in the Nicholas Biddle Papers, HSP, and another, addressed to Hoysteed Hacker in the Harbeck Collection, HUL, seem to be the only originals of the form letter which Hopkins sent to all captains of the fleet. The draft, undated, is in the Hopkins Papers, RIHS, and is endorsed, "Orders given the Several Captains in the Fleet at Sailing from the Capes of Delaware Febry 1776."