Navy Board Eastern department Boston July 11th: 1778—
Dear Sir
I wrote you Yesterday & Inclosed a Resolve of Congress1 which you mention in yours of 7th. instant now come to hand if it is determined that there is no necessity for the Gallies it will save us some Trouble should be obliged to you for the determination when taken-You have been informed of the Safe arrival of the Boston2 I have not a line from Mr Adams,3 can tell you nothing particularly about your son4 No doubt he is well, will give you the first Information in my power I forgot Yesterday to desire you to Send down immediatly Eight of the Columbus's5 best 6 pound Cannon for the Alliance6 quarter deck & Forecastle they are now wanted you will Send with them the Carriages & other Apparatus belonging to them.—I am Your Friend & humble Servt.
J Warren
L, RNHi, William Vernon Papers. Addressed at foot: "Honble: William Vernon Esqr."
1. See Resolve of Congress, 25 June, above, concerning the building of three large galleys to guard the Providence, Warren, and Taunton rivers.
2. Continental Navy frigate, Capt. Samuel Tucker, commander, which sailed for France on 16 Feb. and anchored on 30 Mar, in Gironde River.
3. John Adams, American Commissioner in France.
4. William Vernon Jr., who accompanied John Adams on frigate Boston to France.
5. Continental Navy ship Columbus, Capt. Hoysteed Hacker, commander, which ran aground and was lost on Narragansett Beach on 30 Mar. See NDAR 11: 812–18.
6. Continental Navy frigate building at Salisbury, Massachusetts.
