Providence July 16, 1776
[Extract]
We have already Two Privateers out from this Place and one from Greenwich. Three more are now fitting from this Town and will soon sail. Capt [Samuel] Chace brought with him Four 4 Pounders, Six 3 Pounders, and Eight Swivels which are greatly wanted here for privateers. I have written to the General to permit us to take them for that Use at the full Value in Case they can be spared, 2 and if any Opportunity offers I request your Assistance upon this Occasion.
1. "Nicholas Cooke Correspondence, " AAS Proceedings, XXXVI, 329, 330.
2. Force, comp., American Archives, 5th, I, 378.
