Philadelphia, 16 June 1776 Sunday.
[Extract]
I shall write you fully by the next Post, and also to Capt. [John) Bradford. I shall send all the Warrants to your Sea officers, etc. I want the Recommendations for the Marine Officers, etc. Next Monday Evening the Marine Board will perfect the most of the matters relative to the Ships, when you shall have the necessary Directions I shall send you an order for what Provisions you may want to be taken from the Commissary's Store....
In my last I Sent you a List of the Captains with the Names of the Ships as far as we had then proceeded, since which the following Appointments have been made, Vizt.
Thomas Grenell to the Command of the Frigate Montgomery at N. York....
McNeil and Brown are both here and will proceed down to you in a day or two.
1. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, LX,111, 112.
