War-Office, [Boston] June 5th 1777
Colo Jona Glover, Sir,
Inclos'd you have Copy of a Letter from Governour Cook to the Presi dent of the Council: — 2 The Fleet therein mention'd are suppos'd to be intended to interrupt & destroy if possible our Fleet under Commodore Manly: — You will therefore dispatch the first Spy Boat that may be with you, in quest of our Fleet with a Letter to the Commodore, & a Copy of Governour Cooke's Letter inclos'd that he may be upon his Guard & not suffer himself to be deceiv'd or decoy'd by any stratagem of our crafty Foe. We are, respecty [&c.]
By order of the Board, Saml Phps Savage Prest.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 151, Letters from the Board of War, 1776-1780, 77.
2. Cooke's letter of June 4 informing of several British ships coming out of Newport and standing to the eastward, Mass.Arch., vol.152, Board of War Letters, 1776-1777, 23, 23a.
