Sir

To Commodore Brooke

We are informd from very good authority that a Fleet of Men of War and Transports with Troops from the Northward may be expected in the Bay every day — You are therefore desird to order the two Captains Barrons ² to keep an extraordinary look out and shou'd there arrive any such Ships of War or Transports in the Bay direct them to give immediate notice thereof to this Board. —

[Williamsburg] 10th Apl 1777 —