[New York] May 27, 1776.
[Extract]
Capt. [Peter] Harwood is not to take any other men more than his own company, at present, from Col [Ebenezer] Learneds Regiment, to serve on board the whaling boats &ca ー except by the consent of Lieut. Colonel [William] Shephard; whose Consent, the General imagined Capt. Harwood had obtained, when he gave him the order this morning.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, V, 84, 85.