No 3
Sir You are immediately to return to your Vessel and convey at the expence and risque of this Province, across the Country to the first Inlet to the Northward of Cape Charles such of your Cargo, as you may find necessary, and proceed round with the residue in yr said Vessel between Smith's Island and Cape Charles upon your arrival in that Inlet you [are] to take on board what you send across by land, and with the utmost diligence proceed on your Voyage agreeable to former instructions.2
[Annapolis] May 31st 1776
1. Council of Safety Letter Book, No. 1, Md. Arch.
2. Executive Papers, Box 3, ibid., the previous day the Council had authorized Captain Hill "L15.. ー ..on W. T. T: for defraying the Expences of Carriage of Flour across Northampton County from Cherry Stones for a Vessel going to W. Indies on Acct of Province."
