State Navy Board [Philadelphia] Augt 4th 1777
Sirs,
We have to inform you the necessity requires an Alteration in the Orders you have already Received — therefore you'l be pleased to take notice that you are not bound by any orders heretofore issued — but from henceforth you are hereby order'd to observe any directions instructions or orders issu'd by the Commanding Officer of the Continental fleet order'd down on a secret exp'dition 2 from time to time or so long as the fleet shall be performing the intended expedition.3
1. Navy Board Minute Books, vol. 2, Pa.Arch.
2. For purpose of expedition see Continental Navy Board of the Middle Department to Captain Isaiah Robinson, August 5.
3. The same orders were sent to Captain John Brice, fire brigantine Vulcano, and Captain Thomas Perkins, fire ship Hecla, Navy Board Minute Books, vol. 2, Pa.Arch.
