Admiralty Office, 27th July 1775.
My Lord
Having received Letters from Vice Admiral [Samuel] Graves, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships in North America, dated the 16th 22d and 26th of last month, at Boston, giving an Account of his Proceedings, of an Engagement that happen'd near that Town on the 17th of the same month,2 between his Majesty's Forces and the Rebells, and of several Acts of violence committed by the Provincials in other Colonies; We send your Lordship herewith Copies thereof, and of the several Papers inclosed therein, for his Majesty's information, and are, My Lord [&c.]
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1. PRO, Colonial Office, Class 5/121, LC Transcript.
2. Graves's account of the battle of Bunker Hill.