Boston Augt. 19. 1776
[Extract]
...The Committee for Fortifying the Harbour of Boston are examining the Cannon in and About Boston to see if they Can possibly Spare me sufficient for the Twenty four Gun Frigate,2 Agreable to the order of Council. I am in great hopes shall be able to get the loan of a Sufficient Number for that Ship untill they can be obtained from Philadelphia Let me intreat you to hurry the Cannon along as fast as possible, let me have the Commissions for the Captains Blank Warrants for the Warrant officers, and particular Orders what Cruise the 24 Gun Frigate shall proceed Upon...
You have not Informed me [whether] Congress has as yet appointed any Agent to take Care & [supply the] Continental Ships with such things as they from time [to time shall stlanct in need of ー This is a different department from an Agen[t for prize]sー3
1. Emmet Autograph Collection, NYPL.
2. The frigate Boston.
3. Cushing wrote in a similar vein this date to Robert Treat Paine. Robert Treat Paine Papers, MassHS.
