To Capt John Rider

You Are hereby Impowered and Desired to Go on Board the shooner Hannah As Master, Embrace the first Good Oppertunity, Come to sail And proceed with All possible Dispatch to North Carolina, and their Dispose of your Cargo And Lay Out the proceeds In the Most Advantageous Manner in flour, wheat, [illegible] Beans Indian Corn, And Rice, Giving preference to these Articles In the Order they stand, And what remains if Any in [illegible] Leather, Hides, Or some Other Light Articles & return With the same to this state as soon as May Be, Taking care to Get into the first safe port you can And from thence Giving Intelligence Of your Arrival to the Board of War At Boston And pursue their Orders for Your future Conduct I Wish you a Good Voayge and Am Yrs [&c.]

Plimouth 7 March 1777

[Endorsed] A True Copy of Orders I promise to Observe

John Ride.