[Preston, Boston] 29 [June 1775]
By the Charlotte advice boat the Admiral sent the following Letter to Captain [Francis] Parry of his Majesty's Sloop Cruizer at North Carolina, and wrote nearly to the same purport to the Captains of the Nautilus in the Delaware, Tamer at So Carolina, Magdalen Schooner and Mercury at Virginia, and the St John at the Bahamas.
1. Graves's Conduct, I, 127, 128,MassHS Transcript.