[Baltimore, May 24, 1775]
Your Ship Baltimore Packet is now Ready for Sea under [your] Command. We have only to Request your Proceeding with her to [Falm]outh in England with the first wind & on your arrival there Imme[diately] write Messrs Johnston & Cumming of London, also as soon as you [receive] orders to Proceed to any one Port of Di[s]charge give them Information [so that] they may be able to make the Necessary Insurance. We have only to [add] that we wish you safe & plesent Passageć¼
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W. S.
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.