Whereas you will herewith receive Dispatches for the Governors of his Majesty's Colonies in North America according to the annexed Schedule, you are hereby required and directed to proceed without Loss of time in his Majesty's Sloop under your Command along the Coast and endeavour to deliver the said Dispatches according to their several Addresses; And having so done you are to proceed to Savannah in Georgia, where you are to remain until farther Orders, exerting your utmost Endeavours to carry into Execution the several Orders and Directions you have already received, and in general to do your utmost for the good of his Majesty's Service entrusted to your Care. But as in the present State of the Provinces, which are in Rebellion against the King, you cannot convey some of the Dispatches into the hands of the Governors to whom they are severally addressed, you are, whenever that shal'l happen, or that it will cause a great delay to wait until they can be delivered, to give them to any Director or Comptroller or any other known Officer belonging to his Majesty, taking a Receipt and desiring such Collector to forward the said Dispatches as directed. At Virginia, if it shall be necessary, you may leave those for Lord Dunmore and for the Deputy Governor of Maryland with the Captain of any of his Majs Ships on that Station, and so for the rest, to the end that you may get to Savannah as soon as possible.

Given under my Hand on board his Majs Ship Preston

By Command of the Admiral G. Gefferina