Preston Boston June 26, 1775
Sir
I have this Moment received a dispatch from Captain [James] Wallace of His Majesty's Ship Rose at Rhode Island A Copy of which I have just time enough to put on board the Cerberus.2
I think the Report of the Brig, Sloop, and other Vessels is likely to be true, from the Attack already made upon the Rose's Tender. I am [&c.]
Saml Graves
1. PRO, Admiralty 1/485, LC Transcript.
2. Captain James Wallace's letter of June 19, 1775.