Gentlemen
Your Memorialist Understanding That A Captn for the Floating Battery is not Yet Appointed, and he being in the Service, Would be Glad to be Appointed by your Honorble Board; to the Command of the Above Battery Which will be esteemed A favor by ー Gentlemen [&c]
Philadelphia March 6. 1776
Charles Alexander 2
1. Simon Gratz Autograph Collection, HSP.
2. Alexander was captain of the Pennsylvania galley Chatham.